num_pages: 188
description: In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the planet; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes.Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.
language: English
title: The Crack in Space
titlecomplete: The Crack in Space
characters: Phil Danville, Frank Fenner, Bill Smith, Thomas Rosenfeld, Leon Turpin, Don Stanley, Earl Bohegian, Art Chaffy, Stuart (Stu) Hadley, Dave DeWinter, George Walt, Harry Parch, Mary Hadley, Herb Lackmore, Tina, Rick Erickson, Bruno Mini, Frank Woodbine, Darius Pethel, Berg, William Schwarz, Dillingsworth, Henry Ellis, Bascolm Howard, Gus Anderton, Weiswasser, Patricia (Pat) Heim, Dr. Lurton D. Sands, Jr., Thisbe Olt, Salisbury (Sal) Heim, Dorthy (Dotty) Gill, Cally Vale, James (Jim) Briskin, Wendell Willkie, Walleck, Rachael Chaffy, Myra Sands, Edward Marshak, Francy, Verne Engel, Tito Cravelli, Sparky Rivers
genres: Audiobook, American, Politics, Novels, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 3237
publisher: Vintage