Dimensions
129 x 198 x 15mm
Philip K Dick is one of science fiction's most outstanding and unique minds, and 'The Game-Players Of Titan' incorporates all the elements that have garnered him immense critical success and untiring devotion from his fans: a post-apocalyptic setting, confusion about the nature of reality, and bizarre hallucinatory episodes.
Roaming the pristine landscape of Earth, cared for my machines and aliens, the few remaining humans alive since the war with Titan play Bluff. The game allows them to win or lose property, and also to form new marriages in order to maximise the remote chance that some pairings will produce a child.
When Pete Garden, a particularly suicidal member of the Pretty Blue Fox game-playing group, loses his current wife and his deed to Berkeley, he stumbles upon a far bigger, more sinister version of the game. The telepathic, slug-like Vugs of Titan are the players and at stake is the Earth itself.
'The Game-Players Of Titan' is a brilliantly conceived vision of a future dystopia, full of wildly imaginative detail, moments of exquisite humour and mind-distorting musings on the nature of perception. The seemingly straightforward narrative quickly turns into a tumultuous nightmare of delusion, precognition and conspiracy in inimitable Philip K Dick style.
