Our Friends From Frolix 8
by Dick, Philip K
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/NO DJ
- Seller
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About This Item
"What had answered mankind's call for help? And at what price?"
Synopsis
For all the strange worlds borne of his vast and vivid imagination, Philip K. Dick was largely concerned with humanity's most achingly familiar heartaches and struggles. In Our Friends From Frolix 8, he clashes private dreams against public battles in a fast-paced and provocative tale that ultimately addresses our salvation both as individuals and a whole.Nick Appleton is a menial laborer whose life is a series of endless frustrations. Willis Gram is the despotic oligarch of a planet ruled by big-brained elites. When they both fall in love with Charlotte Boyer, a feisty black marketer of revolutionary propaganda, Nick seems destined for doom. But everything takes a decidedly unpredictable turn when the revolution's leader, Thors Provoni, returns from ten years of intergalactic hiding with a ninety-ton protoplasmic slime that is bent on creating a new world order. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Grove Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GA-019-020
- Title
- Our Friends From Frolix 8
- Author
- Dick, Philip K
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- NO DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- ACE Publishing Corporation
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1970
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SCIENCE FICTION
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