2012, ISBN: 9780547572710

Kartoniert, 240 Seiten, 203mm x 133mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng In this biting satire, the Cold War may have ended, but the eastern and western governments never told their citizens. Instea… Mehr…

Kartoniert, 240 Seiten, 203mm x 133mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng In this biting satire, the Cold War may have ended, but the eastern and western governments never told their citizens. Instead they created an elaborate ruse, wherein each side comes up with increasingly outlandish doomsday weapons--weapons that don't work. But when aliens invade, the top designers of both sides have to come together to make a real doomsday device--if they don't kill each other first. With its combination of romance, espionage, and alien invasion, The Zap Gun skewers the military-industrial complex in a way that's as relevant today as it was at the height of the Cold War.Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago on December 16, 1928, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began publishing short stories in 1952, mostly finding homes in popular science fiction magazines, but he had little commercial success until he published The Man in the High Castle in 1962. He followed with novels such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ubik, and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, establishing him as a writer of science fiction. Following years of drug abuse and a series of mystical experiences in 1974, Dick's work dealt more explicitly with issues of theology, metaphysics, and the nature of reality. He died in 1982 in Santa Ana, California, at the age of 53, due to complications from a stroke. Versandkostenfreie Lieferung<

ISBN: 9780547572710

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2012, ISBN: 0547572719

Kartoniert / Broschiert FICTION / Science Fiction / General, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Houghton Mifflin]