Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas

Battle of the TitansPhilip K. Dick died in February 1982 -- but not the 1982 of most history books. In this 1982 America has won the Vietnam war, colonised the moon -- and re-elected Richard Milhous Nixon FOUR times. Dick is remembered for his early realist novels, whilst his bitingly satirical SF circulates illegally in samizdat form. But if Phil Dick is really dead, who is the bearded amnesiac who wanders into to the Georgia office of an unsuccessful psychotherapist?The ghost of Philip K.Dick?Soon the seditious scribbler is making plans more bizarre than his own wildest inventions: to remake reality -- and fix "King Richard" Nixon once and for all..."A wonderfully inventive novel and a lovingly crafted homage, by oneof the best of the younger SF writers" -- Publishers Weekly"Succeeds remarkably well. . . masterful" -- Locus