- "One of the most original practitioners writing and kind of fiction, Philip K. Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem naval-gazers in a cul-de-sac" (Sunday Times)
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Bending, he kissed her bare shoulder.
"Thanks, Rick," she said wanly. "Remember, though; don't think about it, just do it. Don't pause and be philosophical, because from a philosophical point it's dreary. For us both." (p.165) - "If I set the mood organ to a 670 setting?"
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"Is the sky painted?" Isidore asked. "Are there really brushstrokes that
show up under magnification?"
"Yes," Mercer said.
"I can't see them."
"You're too close"
In a world where animals are becoming extinct (owls went first) and humans are suffering, androids who pretend to be human are hunted down and animals prized. At the end a wife phones to get accessories for an electric toad that her husband (an android-killer) found, thinking it was real.
