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Original Title:	Now Wait for Last Year
ISBN:	0679742204 (ISBN13: 9780679742203)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Eric Sweetscent
Setting:	Wash-35, Mars,2055 Tijuana,2055(Mexico) San Diego, California,2055(United States) …more Cheyenne, Wyoming,2055(United States) Pasadena, California,2055(United States) …less

Now Wait for Last Year Paperback | Pages: 230 pages

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Title	:	Now Wait for Last Year
Author	:	Philip K. Dick
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 230 pages
Published	:	June 29th 1993 by Vintage (first published March 1966)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction

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Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time -- and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy -- and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the man better or to keep him poised just this side of death. Now Wait for Last Year bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as it ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional -- and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time it is.

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"Life is composed of reality configurations so constituted. To abandon her would be to say, I can't endure reality as such. I have to have uniquely special easier conditions."- Philip K. Dick (in Now Wait for Last Year) This is a book for married couples (having difficulties), suicides, drug addicts, politicians, and time travelers -- and it just happens to be one of my favorite PKD novels ever (although ever with Philip Kindred Dick is always a fluid thing).'Now Wait for Last Year' is something

I hate it when this happens. I try out a brand new hallucinogenic drug only to find out that it is addictive after a single use. Then, while suffering withdrawals, I'm offered help only if I agree to spy on my estranged husband who is now special physician to the ailing Sec. Gen of the United Nations, Gino Molinari. I take more of the drug to get me through the trip to the White House in Cheyenne, Wyoming, only to discover that the drug messes not only with my sense of time but with time itself.

Dick's misogyny is at full-bore here (PKD's works are so bound up in his own life and experiences that it helps, if you plan to read a considerable amount of his work, to get hold of a good biography like Lawrence Sutin's Divine Invasions and try and correlate the themes and issues in his books with what was going on in his rather messy and chaotic life at the time). So are his explorations of the nature of reality and time, the effects of weird drugs and his deep engagement with ethics,

A virtual compendium of many of Philip K. Dick's pet themes, tropes and obsessions, "Now Wait For Last Year," the author's 17th published sci-fi novel, originally appeared as a Doubleday hardcover in 1966. (As revealed in Lawrence Sutin's biography on Dick, the novel was actually written as early as 1963 and rewritten two years later.) Phil was on some kind of a roll at this point in his career, having recently come out with the masterpieces "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" and "Dr.

Absolutely the most phildickian of all Philip K. Dick books. It has everything PKD: henpecked husband and underling executive or doctor trying to navigate a semi-oppressive dystopia; wild investigations into identity, memory, and (perceived) time; an illegal new drug that is manufactured by the same forces that oppose it; mid-century extreme but casual sexism; cabs that try but fail to interact naturally with fares; crossed loyalties; fatalistic decisions; devious allies and innocent enemies;

(Audiobook) I don't remember reading this. Poor PKD had kind of a problem with women. I can't recall a single sympathetic female character in this. Other than that, great "what is real" and "how do I live" stuff!

I read Philip K. Dicks 1966 science fiction novel Now Wait for Last Year in trade paperback. Ill just assume you already know who Philip K. Dick was. Strangely enough he is probably more revered among younger readers today, than he was while alive, perhaps because of all the mind-bending films that have been made based on ideas from his works. This is one of his lesser known novels (no film) and I had not read it before. It starts as a commonplace story of a future corporate medical doctor, Eric