Nick and the Glimmung

by Philip K. Dick, Nick Podehl (Read by)

Overview

Nick has a problem. He has a cat named Horace, and cats are quite illegal on Earth. In fact all pets are illegal on Earth, and Horace has been reported to the anti-pet man. The only way for Nick and his family to keep Horace is to emigrate to Plowman’s Planet.

Little did they know that, rather than the pastoral paradise Nick’s father envisioned, they would land in the middle of a planetwide war against an entity known as Glimmung, a conflict in which Nick and Horace would play a pivotal role.

Nick and the Glimmung is Philip K. Dick’s sole surviving young adult novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781480595071
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	09/16/2014
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	12 - 14 Years

About the Author

One of the greatest authors of the 20th century, with a career spanning 3 decades and 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film; notably: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick won the Hugo Award in 1963 and was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 he was the first science fiction to be published by the Library of America.

Editorial Reviews

01/01/2015
Gr 7 Up—On Dick's futuristic Earth, pets are illegal, jobs are rationed, and school is taught in multiple classrooms by one teacher. Nick and his family face the Anti-Pet Man when news of their secret cat gets out. To save Horace, they leave Earth for Plowman's Planet, a 10-day journey into space. Awaiting them there are colonists caught between alien species, who are at war with each other. Nick encounters Glimmung, the most feared creature on the planet, who guards a book that tells the future. Horace gets snatched by the werjes, and Nick recruits the spiddles to help rescue him. Written in 1966, Dick's only YA book introduces young readers to concepts of government-controlled labor and housing, space colonization, video-teleconferencing, and 3-D printing. The plot is often difficult to follow and the dialogue stilted, but the overall entertainment value is sustained by the performance of Nick Podehl as narrator.—Alice Davidson, Indianapolis, IN

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