num_pages: 341
description: It is 1982. The United States has a permanent Moonbase. Richard M. Nixon is in the fourth term of the "imperial presidency." And an eccentric novelist named Philip K. Dick has just died in California.Or has he? Psychiatrist Lia Pickford, M.D., is nonplussed when Dick walks into her office in small-town Georgia, with a cab idling outside, to ask for help. And Cal Pickford, a longtime Dick fan stunned by the news of his hero's death, is electrified when his wife tells him of the visit.So begins a sequence of events involving Cal in the repressive Nixon regime, the affairs of an aging movie queen, a hip but frightened Vietnamese immigrant and an old black man who works as a groom--all leading up to a fateful confrontation between Dick, Cal, and Nixon himself on the moon.
language: English
title: Philip K. Dick is dead, alas
titlecomplete: Philip K. Dick is dead, alas
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Alternate History, Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 472
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award
publisher: Orb Books