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What are Ted and Peggy Barton doing in Millgate, VA? Does the place even exist?
Well, it exists in some half-forgotten form; it certainly doesn’t exist in the form that Ted Barton remembers. On his arrival in Millgate, he spends the first few hours looking for shops that no longer exist on streets that no longer exist, parks that no longer exist and people who no longer exist - not people who have died, but people who have never lived. There’s strong speculation from the inhabitants of Millgate t ...more
Well, it exists in some half-forgotten form; it certainly doesn’t exist in the form that Ted Barton remembers. On his arrival in Millgate, he spends the first few hours looking for shops that no longer exist on streets that no longer exist, parks that no longer exist and people who no longer exist - not people who have died, but people who have never lived. There’s strong speculation from the inhabitants of Millgate t ...more
Quite a good story.
I've been meaning to read PKD since I learned that he had written Minority Report. This is quite a good start :-) ...more
I've been meaning to read PKD since I learned that he had written Minority Report. This is quite a good start :-) ...more
theres some nice things in here
I don't have any way of being unbiased about Philip K Dick - his imagination and intellect have taken me through each book I've read with total wonder. A touch less abstract than some and a little more spiritual. Memorable read, and as with all his, one I know I'll be reading more than once again.
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Certainly not top of the crop, but still decent, with several of Dick's pet themes like alternate realities etc. Worth a summer afternoon's time.
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