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0575133104

Lies, inc.

Author: Dick, Philip K.

Publication year: 2014

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London : Gollancz, 2014.

ISBN: 9780575133105 (pbk.) : 8.99

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Originally published: as The unteleported man. New York: Ace, 1964.

Never before published in the UK in its complete form, this is the book Dick was working on just before his death in 1982. An expanded version of the novella }The Unteleported Man{. 'One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction' }Sunday Times{ A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novellla THE UNTELEPORTED 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 crammed 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 Appleb