num_pages: 258
description: Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, The Zap Gun is Dick's remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions–Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo even as he knows she's trying to kill him.Author Biography: 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 Zap Gun
titlecomplete: The Zap Gun
characters: General Nitz, Mr. Lars Powderdry, Lucky Bagman, Vincent Klug, Miss Lilo Topchev, Oral Giocomini, Surley G. Febbs and the entire population of earth in the 21st century, Henry Morris, along with the Sirius Slavers, Marshal Paponovich
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, War, American, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Fantasy, Audiobook, 20th Century
ratings_count: 2538
publisher: Carroll & Graf