224 pages
English language
Published July 30, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Simulacra (2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company)
224 pages
English language
Published July 30, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.
In classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.