![]() ![]() He can't take the cruelty, runs out the door and is rescued in a strange, outer space kind of way by a strange outer space kind of being. And I will pay.” Immediately thereafter all varieties of bizarre events ensue until Joe finds himself interrogated and threatened at a Cleveland police station. When he’s not playing The Game, Joe ponders: What do I really want?īut then Joe receives a mysterious note: "Pot-healer, I need you. His talents are no longer needed and he sits in his office cubical alone, without work, and, as a way to kill time and take the edge off his boredom and frustration, he uses a Skype-like program to play The Game (a clever intellectual guessing game) with other men across the globe who are likewise bored and frustrated. Unfortunately, he’s living in a world of computers and other highly advanced technology, a world where everything is made out of plastic. Similar to those master craftsmen who helped build medieval cathedrals, Joe takes a special pride in his skill. Joe is a pot-healer, a mender of broken ceramic pots as his father was before him. Joe Fernwright is the book’s protagonist. ![]() I ask since this novel opens in dystopian Cleveland in the year 2046, a futuristic city where absolutely nothing is worth crapping on - it's totalitarian with a vengeance: state officials utilize sinister mind control techniques and a ruthless, intrusive police force maims, brutalizes and otherwise inflicts itself on the city's inhabitants at every turn. Q: Why do ducks fly over Cleveland upside down? In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. ![]()
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