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Dr Bloodmoney (S.F. Masterworks) (Paperback)

by Philip K. Dick (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; First Thus edition (10 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185798952X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857989526
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 384,744 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal -- except for the girl with her twin brother growing inside her, and talking to her. Their barter economy was working. Their resident genius could fix almost anything that broke down. But they didn't know they were harbouring the one man who almost everyone left alive wanted killed...


About the Author

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 Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Post Holocaust - PKD Style, 21 Jan 2001
By Mr. Paul J. Stephen (Leeds) - See all my reviews
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The normal Philip Dick traits can be found in this book. Paranoia - Bleak landscape - wacky characters but surprise, surprise a reasonably happy, uplifting ending. Dick uses the 'worm that turned' scenario to good affect in the case of Hoppy and Stuart - but do either find their change in fortunes beneficial.

Well written and an interesting post bomb premise means that this is another good read from PKD - as other reveiwers have mentioned Dick certainly has a high percentage of releases in the Masterwork stable - another two are scheduled for late in 2001 - and this shows the popularity and esteem held for this unique Sci-fi writer.

Highly recommended - includes a forthright Afterword by the man himself.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another PKD SF Masterwork, 15 Oct 2000
By J. L. Probert - See all my reviews
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By the end of this year there will be 36 books in the Millennium SF Masterworks series and six of them will have been written by Philip K Dick, making him by far the commonest author to be represented. Has the inclusion of so many PKD titles so far been justifiable? A resounding yes to this, I think, especially if there are all at least as good as Dr Bloodmoney (in fact, some of them are even better). Dick's apocalyptic storyline may be familiar to those who have read his collected short stories as an abbreviated fragment of this novel turned up in Volume 5 (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale) under the title 'A Terran Odyssey'. The novel concentrates on the interactions of a small group of people several years after the bomb has been dropped. Society is almost back to basics. Human and animal mutations are commonplace and the only thing bringing many of the small isolated groups of survivors together is a man stranded in a satellite orbiting the earth sending out regular messages (including book readings) via radio. Dick chronicles the ups and downs of one group of people, amongst whom is the man possibly responsible for the earth's present state. Thought-provoking, and with an afterword by the author composed some time after he wrote the original text, this is an easier read than some of Dick's later works.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to scratch..., 21 Dec 2000
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I tucked into Dr Bloodmoney with relish having read the previous reviews in this section, but have to say that I was heartily disappointed. Compared to Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Man in the High Castle, Valis or any of the five volumes of short stories (plus many of his other books) I think that this is one of the weakest I have yet to come across. It simply didn't hold my attention.

It contains all the usual character quirks and paranoia found in all of his work but it struck me as if he had a host of interesting ideas lying around which he threw together into one story without developing any of them, or the characters, sufficiently. At the halfway point I became interested, finally, with what was going on, only to be disappointed when suddenly the all powerful menace which had been building his powers for seven years is vanguished in the blink of an eye as is Dr Bloodmoney before him and everything suddenly turns out rosey in the last couple of pages; not very Dick at all.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My personal perspective
I felt that I should write to disagree with the negative reviews of this Philip Dick masterpiece. Having all of the authors books I would put this in the top five of his novels... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Brian Parsons

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the Dick I know
A truly awful performance from Dick. The plot is all over the place, the characters are so badly drawn they are almost invisible, and I could not wait to get to the end.
Published 12 months ago by S. ALLMAN

5.0 out of 5 stars Phillip Dick's post-Bomb masterpiece
If you haven't encountered Phillip K Dick you are in for a wonderful treat. Dr Bloodmoney, Or How We Got Along after The Bomb, was written in the 60s in a burst of creativity,... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2000 by rgerrand@bigpond.net.au

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