The penultimate truth
By: Philip K. Dick.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books 2004 ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Nuclear warfare -- Fiction.; Underground areas -- Fiction.; Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That's the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick's futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics, and the sinister potential of the military-industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in which the earth has been ravaged, and cities are burnt-out wastelands too dangerous for human life. Americans have been shipped underground, where they toil in crowded industrial anthills and receive a steady diet of inspiring speeches from a president who never seems to age. Nick St. James, like the rest of the masses, believes in the words of his leaders.

But all that changes when he travels to the surface - where what he finds is more shocking than anything he could possibly imagine."--Jacket.
Notes: "Originally published by Belmont Books in 1964"--T.p. verso.