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Martian Time-slip

Martian Time-slip

Author: Philip K. Dick

Just as Ray Bradbury's Mars ignores both contemporary scientific knowledge about Mars and the colourful landscape of the planetary romance in order to create a Mars that is peculiarly his own, so Philip K. Dick writes about a Mars that is less an alien planet and more a strange Californian suburb. Dick's unique vision conjures a Mars that is a place of madness, unstable identities, and people who are never fully in control of what they do. Here mental illness is equated with different time perception, but that puts the autistic boy, Manfred, on a par with the Martian natives. From this basis, Dick tells a story full of twists in time, precognition, deceptions, and ordinary people struggling to make sense of a mixed up world.   It's by Philip K. Dick: that should be recommendation enough. Like Bradbury, anyone who creates a unique, individual vision of Mars is well worth reading.

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