Martian Time-Slip Summary
Philip K. Dick

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Martian Time-Slip Summary

n many ways Martian Time-Slip is Dick's most subversive, both of the conventions of science fiction and ultimately of what man takes to be reality.

Set on a future Mars which is in the process of being colonized by Earth, it seemingly follows all of the science fiction notions about the red planet.

Mars is mostly a desert with the colonists (mainly American whites) managing to eke out a...

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