Dr. Bloodmoney
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3.3 • 6 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A Nebula Award nominee, Dr. Bloodmoney is Hugo Award–winner Philip K. Dick's darkly comic riff on Stanley Kubrick's Cold War black comedy, Dr. Strangelove, a look at how humanity gets along after the end of the world.
"A masterpiece."—Roberto Bolaño
What happens after the bombs drop? This is the troubling question Philip K. Dick addresses with Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb. It is the story of a post-apocalyptic world reeling from the effects of nuclear annihilation and fallout, a world where mutated humans and animals are the norm, and the scattered survivors take comfort from a disc jockey endlessly circling the globe in a broken-down satellite. And hidden among the survivors is Dr. Bloodmoney himself, the man responsible for it all.
This bizarre cast of characters cajole, seduce, and backstab in their attempts to get ahead in what is left of the world, consequences and casualties be damned. A sort of companion to Dr. Strangelove—an unofficial and unhinged sequel—Dick’s dystopian novel is just as full of dark comedy and just as chilling.
Customer Reviews
Dr Blood Money is the perfect title for
A novel that seems destined to part us from our cash in return for… well, nothing really. Oh how I wish someone had written a review of this waste of time before I picked it up. Seriously, time I can never get back. Still, I shouldn’t be surprised, every author has that one awful book in their repertoire and this one is PKD’s. Good luck, you brave soul, if you choose not to heed this review. We will probably find you, lost somewhere in the novel’s backdrop endlessly listening to whatshisname, that poor soul in orbit, the most interesting character here, though not so interesting that I remember his name having read it only a few hours ago when I last tried again to find some reason to keep reading this waste of my time and money. Stanley Kramer would be ashamed of the comparison in the reviews of those so called professional book critics. Where is Mandrake when you need him?