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Martian Time-Slip is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel uses the common science fiction concept of a human colony on Mars. However, it also includes the themes of mental illness, the physics of time and the dangers of centralized authority.
- Philip K. Dick
- 1964
3.78. 13,293 ratings806 reviews. On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated 'anomalous' children for deportation and destruction, other people—especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Workers' union—suspect that ...
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Martian Time-Slip describes a superficially more successful Mars, but one in which the hopes of a family frontier have given way to the worst of 1960s suburbia, with many of the details taken directly from the popular suburban critique of the 1950s and 1960s that Scott Donaldson incisively summarized in The Suburban Myth.
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In MARTIAN TIME SLIP, one of his most wildly imaginative novels, "a generation of schizophrenics" has been born to the pioneer colonists on Mars. One of these emotionally damaged kids, the autistic Manfred Steiner, has retreated into the private universe he's created from his subconscious.
with difficulty. Time by the clock: nine-thirty. She found her robe, walked to the window. I must not take any more of that, she thought. Better to succumb to the schizophrenic process, join the rest of the world. She raised the window shade; the sunlight, with its familiar reddish, dusty tinge, filled her sight and made it impossible to see.
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Mars is a desolate world. Largely forgotten by Earth, the planet remains helpless in the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who as boss of the plumbers' union has a monopoly over the vital water supply.
- Philip K Dick
