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Now Wait for Last Year
Philip K. Dick

Now Wait for Last Year

Philip K. Dick

2011 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 240 pages

FictionFiction in EnglishScience FictionFiction, science fiction, generalBody

About this book

Now Wait for Last Year is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is set in 2055, when Earth is caught between two galactic powers in an interstellar conflict. Dr. Eric Sweetscent and his wife Kathy get addicted to a powerful drug that appears to cause time travel. The doctor's patient is the world leader, UN Secretary General. Of the twenty-eight novels Dick published in the 1960s and 1970s, this novel is one of the five chosen to represent this period of his career in The Library of Ame…

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A patient, character-first epic that asks you to sit with worldbuilding before any payoff arrives. Readers who love long arcs and slow-burn relationships tend to finish it twice; readers chasing momentum often DNF in the first hundred pages. Plan for unhurried evenings.

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A character-driven with strong ideas, melancholic and immersive read.

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