Now Wait for Last Year

Now Wait for Last Year

by Philip K. Dick

Narrated by Luke Daniels

Unabridged — 8 hours, 13 minutes

Now Wait for Last Year

Now Wait for Last Year

by Philip K. Dick

Narrated by Luke Daniels

Unabridged — 8 hours, 13 minutes

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Overview

From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?-the basis for the film Blade Runner-Now Wait for Last Year is the novel of an Earth caught in an interstellar war and of an addictive hallucinogenic drug that causes time travel side effects.

Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of it all, a new drug has just entered circulation-a drug that haphazardly sends its users traveling through time.

In an attempt to escape his doomed marriage, Dr. Eric Sweetscent becomes caught up in all of it. But he has questions: Is Earth on the right side of the war? Is he supposed to heal Earth's leader or keep him sick? And can he change the harrowing future that the drug has shown him?

"[Dick is] a true visionary, a writer who has enlarged our literature and continues to vex it."-Chicago Tribune


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"Dick was... one of the genuine visionaries that American fiction has produced in this century, and his best novels constitute as significant a body of work as that of any writer in this country in the last thirty years."
-- L.A. Weekly

NOVEMBER 2011 - AudioFile

Written in 1966, this novel finds Eric Sweetscent, an organ transplant doctor, becoming enmeshed in intergalactic politics as he becomes personal physician to the most powerful leader on earth. At the same time, his wife becomes addicted to a powerful drug. (Is there a conspiracy?) Luke Daniels reflects the quiet but passionate tension between husband and wife as she becomes increasingly paranoid and disoriented from a drug that causes her to travel forward and backward in time—or is it just a hallucination? Daniels presents Sweetscent as a thoughtful, reserved man who engages in quiet conversations with automated taxicabs and simpleminded inventors as well as sophisticated politicians. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID: 2940172350368
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publication date: 10/18/2011
Edition description: Unabridged
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