by Philip K. Dick · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586209707
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«Counter-Clock World» is the science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, published by Grafton in paperback (240 pages, in English).
The novel imagines the Hobart Phase, a cosmic process that makes time run backwards: the dead resurrect, libraries eliminate books and customs are reversed. When the religious leader Anarch Peak returns from the dead, controlling him becomes the key to deciding the fate of the world.
The novel was originally published in 1967; the present Grafton edition dates from 1990.
For fans of speculative science fiction and works by Philip K. Dick with a theological background.
Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction.
