The Simulacra
Philip K. Dick
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
<P><B>In a post-WWIII world, a matriarch maintains rule against a popular uprising in this sci-fi classic by the author of <I>The Man in the High Castle</I>.</B></P><P>On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including an android president, a First Lady who calls all the shots, fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, and the world's last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.</P> Set in the mid 21st century and first published in 1964, <I>The Simulacra</I> combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.