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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...
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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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Dr Bloodmoney, published in 1965, is one of Philip Dick's most consistent novels. It is set in an imagined late 20th century California, in the years immediately before and after a catastrophic nuclear exchange, and follows the lives of a variety of local people who are obliged to forge an existence in greatly changed circumstances.
This being a Dick novel, things are more complicated than this bare outline might suggest. Dick is relatively uninterested in the obvious consequences of nuclear war. Instead, he focusses on the changes brought about in the human and animal population by mutation, and the peculiar interaction between human psychological frailties and the opportunities created by the realisation of a fantasy of destruction and the disruption of existing hierarchies of authority.
Among the talking dogs, telekinetic thalidomide victims and stranded astronauts Dick takes the time to construct complex, credible characters who are neither simply villains nor heroes. Only in a Dick novel would such people exist alongside others who can talk to the dead, or who have limited knowledge of the future. This is thoughtful science fiction, and even now both a credible meditation on the roots of human evil and an insight into the fears of the Kennedy years.
Dr Bloodmoney isn't as celebrated as some of Dick's other novels, but it deserves to be better known. It's among the half-dozen best, and is more approachable than most - by Dick's standards, a work of optimism.
This being a Dick novel, things are more complicated than this bare outline might suggest. Dick is relatively uninterested in the obvious consequences of nuclear war. Instead, he focusses on the changes brought about in the human and animal population by mutation, and the peculiar interaction between human psychological frailties and the opportunities created by the realisation of a fantasy of destruction and the disruption of existing hierarchies of authority.
Among the talking dogs, telekinetic thalidomide victims and stranded astronauts Dick takes the time to construct complex, credible characters who are neither simply villains nor heroes. Only in a Dick novel would such people exist alongside others who can talk to the dead, or who have limited knowledge of the future. This is thoughtful science fiction, and even now both a credible meditation on the roots of human evil and an insight into the fears of the Kennedy years.
Dr Bloodmoney isn't as celebrated as some of Dick's other novels, but it deserves to be better known. It's among the half-dozen best, and is more approachable than most - by Dick's standards, a work of optimism.
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Boring
It's the end of the world. Again. And this is the account of a select bunch of San Franciscan survivors as they adapt to the new conditions.... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lixma
An Interesting Post Apocalyptic Novel
"A few years on from the day the bombs fell, the community of Point Reyes is doing just fine. The barter economy is working well enough, the people are reasonably normal - with the... Read more
Published 14 months ago by M. D. Jenkins
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 on 13 Sep 2009 by Brian Parsons
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 on 18 Oct 2008 by S. ALLMAN
Not up to scratch...
I tucked into Dr Bloodmoney with relish having read the previous reviews in this section, but have to say that I was heartily disappointed. Read more
Published on 21 Dec 2000
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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