We Can Build You - Couverture souple

Dick, Philip K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0727815954 ISBN 13 : 9780727815958

Editeur : Severn House Publishers Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

Some people are not people, they are simulacra...yet they can be more human than some other people who are people. Philip Dick explores his familiar theme, 'What is human?'

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold.

Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of Bladerunner and Barbarians at the Gate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Severn House Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0727815954
• ISBN 13: 9780727815958
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible