Lies, Inc.

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Lies, Inc.
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Philip K Dick
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 132,Width 200
Category/GenreScience fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780575133105
ClassificationsDewey:813.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Gollancz
Publication Date 10 April 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novellla The Unteleproted Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In LIES, INC, fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognise his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion. In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never come back. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a scapeship on the 18-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return.

Author Biography

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joing, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.