LIES, Inc.


Fans will be excited to discover there's a new book by Philip K. DIck! Lies, Inc. is an expanded version of Unteleported Man, and it's a rambunctious, heavy-tech sci-fi adventure. For the first 99 pages, the reader is treated to a fast-paced, gadget-heavy, mind-boggling story line. Then, suddenly, the novel dives into an extended LSD trip ...

... reminiscent, perhaps, of one of PKD's own acid trips. It's strange, colorful, and -- one wonders -- out-of-place. The whole book was pieced together posthumously from two previously-published parts, as well as some missing pages. Sometimes the story suffers from the discontinuities; at other points, it seems of if the discontinuity is part of the story.

Despite its problems, I still enjoyed reading Lies, Inc., and I suspect one day we'll see it in a movie.

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Posted: Thu - April 22, 2004 at 09:51 PM

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