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Dr Bloodmoney (Gollancz S.F.)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Gollancz (2007-03-08)
ISBN: 0575079940
EAN: 9780575079946
Paperback: 304 pages
Edition: New Ed
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Customer Reviews
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Not the Dick I know
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-10-18
A truly awful performance from Dick. The plot is all over the place, the characters are so badly drawn they are almost invisible, and I could not wait to get to the end.
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Post Holocaust - PKD Style
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-01-21
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
The normal Philip Dick traits can be found in this book. Paranoia - Bleak landscape - wacky characters but surprise, surprise a reasonably happy, uplifting ending. Dick uses the 'worm that turned' scenario to good affect in the case of Hoppy and Stuart - but do either find their change in fortunes beneficial.Well written and an interesting post bomb premise means that this is another good read from PKD - as other reveiwers have mentioned Dick certainly has a high percentage of releases in the Masterwork stable - another two are scheduled for late in 2001 - and this shows the popularity and esteem held for this unique Sci-fi writer. Highly recommended - includes a forthright Afterword by the man himself.
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Not up to scratch...
Rating  (2)
Date: 2000-12-21
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I tucked into Dr Bloodmoney with relish having read the previous reviews in this section, but have to say that I was heartily disappointed. Compared to Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Man in the High Castle, Valis or any of the five volumes of short stories (plus many of his other books) I think that this is one of the weakest I have yet to come across. It simply didn't hold my attention.It contains all the usual character quirks and paranoia found in all of his work but it struck me as if he had a host of interesting ideas lying around which he threw together into one story without developing any of them, or the characters, sufficiently. At the halfway point I became interested, finally, with what was going on, only to be disappointed when suddenly the all powerful menace which had been building his powers for seven years is vanguished in the blink of an eye as is Dr Bloodmoney before him and everything suddenly turns out rosey in the last couple of pages; not very Dick at all.
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Another PKD SF Masterwork
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-10-15
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
By the end of this year there will be 36 books in the Millennium SF Masterworks series and six of them will have been written by Philip K Dick, making him by far the commonest author to be represented. Has the inclusion of so many PKD titles so far been justifiable? A resounding yes to this, I think, especially if there are all at least as good as Dr Bloodmoney (in fact, some of them are even better). Dick's apocalyptic storyline may be familiar to those who have read his collected short stories as an abbreviated fragment of this novel turned up in Volume 5 (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale) under the title 'A Terran Odyssey'. The novel concentrates on the interactions of a small group of people several years after the bomb has been dropped. Society is almost back to basics. Human and animal mutations are commonplace and the only thing bringing many of the small isolated groups of survivors together is a man stranded in a satellite orbiting the earth sending out regular messages (including book readings) via radio. Dick chronicles the ups and downs of one group of people, amongst whom is the man possibly responsible for the earth's present state. Thought-provoking, and with an afterword by the author composed some time after he wrote the original text, this is an easier read than some of Dick's later works.
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Phillip Dick's post-Bomb masterpiece
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-09-09
3 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you haven't encountered Phillip K Dick you are in for a wonderful treat. Dr Bloodmoney, Or How We Got Along after The Bomb, was written in the 60s in a burst of creativity, along with other Dick classics such as Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It is a post-holocaust novel that says more about our world today, our relationships with each other and with the world.
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