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Dr. Bloodmoney: Or How We Got Along After the Bomb [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction) [Preloaded Digital Audio Player]


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  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1433276119
  • ISBN-13: 978-1433276118
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Post Holocaust - PKD Style 20 Jan 2001
By Mr. Paul J. Stephen
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.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Another PKD SF Masterwork 15 Oct 2000
By J. L. Probert
Format:Paperback
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 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars The apocalypse, Marin County-style 20 July 2010
By Paul Bowes TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best !
On top of being really interesting, the intrigue and the characters are deep and give a plausible depiction of post-apocalyptic California and the impact of the Fallout on regular... Read more
Published 2 months ago by FrogMatt
4.0 out of 5 stars A great read.
I read this many many years ago and decide to give it another go on the Kindle.
It still stands up as a great people story. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Luny
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed.
Although I enjoyed this book. The end was a bit of a disappointment and a little weird. But apart from that. Happy.
Published 3 months ago by Rich M
3.0 out of 5 stars Standard "Dick"
I've been working my way through the SF masterworks, and without a doubt Philip K. Dick is so far consistently disappointing. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Chris
2.0 out of 5 stars 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 23 months ago by Lixma
4.0 out of 5 stars 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 on 12 Mar 2011 by M. D. Jenkins
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 on 13 Sep 2009 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 on 18 Oct 2008 by S. ALLMAN
2.0 out of 5 stars 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
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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