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Il 2080 è l'anno in cui tutti i nodi degli ultimi due secoli vengono al pettine. Negli Usa è periodo di elezioni e Jim Briskin, candidato alla presidenza, tenta di appianare gli ostacoli e di risolvere l'irrisolvibile: cento milioni di persone sono state ibernate in attesa di tempi migliori e di un pianeta meno sovraffollato di quello terrestre. Il problema riguarda anche gli inerti ibernati: è giunto ormai un punto di rottura, e l'alternativa si pone tra lo svegliarli e il farli sparire. Intanto gli incredibili lampobolidi, mezzi di trasporto in grado di eliminare la barriera spaziale, si rivelano pieni di difetti, e non trasportano più i loro utenti dove questi vogliono andare. Bisogna capirne il motivo; la questione razziale è arrivata al punto in cui un uomo di colore, lo stesso Briskin, potrebbe diventare presidente. In "Svegliatevi, dormienti", pubblicato in un unico volume nel 1966, Dick tratteggia uno scenario in cui si alternano personaggi tipici del suo immaginario, il tutto sullo sfondo di un'America distopica che congela in un sonno artificiale le masse improduttive, impegnata nell'affannosa ricerca di una Nuova Frontiera da colonizzare. Introduzione di Carlo Pagetti. Postfazione di Umberto Rossi.
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- Pagine: 220
- Data di uscita: 31-08-2017
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ENGLISH ( The Crack in Space ) / ITALIANO "The young couple, black-haired, dark-skinned, probably Mexican or Puerto Rican, stood nervously at Herb Lackmore's counter and the boy, the husband, said in a low voice, «Sir, we want to be put to sleep. We want to become bibs»" The earth is overpopulated. Very Leggi tutto
This is my fifth Philip K. Dick experience, and it is also my first bad experience with him. Bad, I guess, may be a strong word. Disappointing is more accurate. I will say this is a book with a lot of great ideas... I just wish Dick would have taken the time to actually examine them properly rather
My 11th PKD novel - and this one BLEW ME AWAY! (~ something of a turnaround after being less-than-enthused about 'Martian Time-Slip'.) PKD gets everything right here - esp. in terms of how (as usual) he weaves together what can seem to be disparate elements but which are co-dependent for a single (if Leggi tutto
Published in 1966, Dick's tale of a dystopian future where race and population politics reign supreme in America. Over a 100 million people are in suspended animation; birth rates are extremely low, abortion is commonplace and most people live beyond 120 years! In this world a technological mishap s Leggi tutto
Dick covers many themes in this mid-period romp that he rarely wrote on elsewhere, particularly racism, overpopulation and colonialism, as well as touching on a number of thorny moral and ethical issues like abortion and prostitution. All this comes through a political lens, as the ramifications on
Although he displayed remarkable prescience in many of his books, cult author Philip K. Dick was a good 72 years off the mark in his 18th sci-fi novel, "The Crack in Space." Originally released as a 40-cent Ace paperback in 1966 (F-377, for all you collectors out there), the novel takes place agains Leggi tutto
In a future, overpopulated world, a technician discovers a portal to an alternative earth. Jim Briskin (campaigning to be the first black president) sees settling this alternative world as solution to the problem of the seventy-or-so million cryogenically suspended people warehoused throughout the c Leggi tutto
The more PKD I read, and the more I learn about him and about literature theory, the more impressed I am with what he was able to accomplish, albeit mostly posthumously. Some observations: PKD was a genius, that has been stated over and over. Philosophical, imaginative, social commentary about a futur Leggi tutto
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