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'The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is real-
ity and madness, time and death, sin and salvation_
this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years." —Ursula K. Le Guin, New Republic
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is lifetime as a
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Runner and Totál Recall, Philip K. Dick properly belongs in the tradition of Vonnegut, Calvino, and Robertson Davies. His novels place touchingly ordinary men and women in intimate congress with the unknowable and the awe-full.
Transmigráfion of Timothy Archer, the final növel in
includes VAUS and The Divine Inva-
sion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investi-gation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the sui-cides of his son and mistress—and driven by them into a
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Fülszöveg
'The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is real-
ity and madness, time and death, sin and salvation_
this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and have had him for thirty years." —Ursula K. Le Guin, New Republic
Ithough known during h
is lifetime as a
BBM1 W: writer of science fiction, and more recently I i as the inspiration for such films as Blade
Runner and Totál Recall, Philip K. Dick properly belongs in the tradition of Vonnegut, Calvino, and Robertson Davies. His novels place touchingly ordinary men and women in intimate congress with the unknowable and the awe-full.
Transmigráfion of Timothy Archer, the final növel in
includes VAUS and The Divine Inva-
sion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investi-gation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the sui-cides of his son and mistress—and driven by them into a
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