No man in their rightful mind would kill their wife miles from home. Chuck Rittersdorf has recruited some robot help, and now, in the madness and dysfunction of the Alphane moon, there seems no better place to carry out his cruel plans unless he too is part of a much larger conspiracy. Alpha Centauri, a star within the closest star system to earth, has several orbiting moons, among which is Alpha III M2. On this remote moon, a colony, originally set up to provide respite for the mentally ill is about to become the focus of a secret invasion plan. Among them is Chuck Rittersdorf, a 21st century CIA robot programmer, who has decided to kill his own wife via a remote control simulacrum. He enlists the aid of a telepathic Ganymedean slime mould called Lord Running Clam, an attractive female police officer and various others both witting and unwitting. But when Chuck finds himself in the midst of an interplanetary spy ring on the Alphane moon inhabited entirely by certified maniacs, his personal revenge plans begin to awry as the nature of reality itself is called into question in this brilliantly inventive tale of interstellar madness, murder and violence.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Vintage International. Random House
ISBN: 9780375719288
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 251
Tiempo de lectura:
5h 9m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 24/06/2002
Año de edición: 2002
Plaza de edición: New York
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Philip K. Dick
Chicago, (1928-1981). Philip K. Dick comenzó su producción literaria escribiendo pequeñas historias en revistas de ciencia ficción, en las que ya dejó entrever sus obsesiones personales y esbozó la profunda dimensión humana y filosófica que caracterizaría posteriormente al resto de su obra. Sus novelas mostraron siempre una alternancia entre una corriente trascentental y otra puramente humana y terrenal, donde instrumentos del bien y el mal operan bajo la influencia de una deidad superior. Con una prosa escasamente pulida y una fértil imaginación, Philip K. Dick ha escrito algunas de las páginas más importantes y aplaudidas del género de ciencia ficción.