Dr. Futurity

Name: Dr. Futurity
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9798894863832

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 6 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/20/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In a future where death is embraced, a time-traveling doctor is the only one who can save a wounded resistance leader. When Dr. Jim Parsons wakes up from a car accident, he finds himself in a future populated almost entirely by the young. But to keep the world run by the young, death is fetishized, and those who survive to old age are put down. In such a world, Parsons—with his innate desire to save lives—is a criminal and outcast. But for one revolutionary group, he may be just the savior they need to heal and revive their cryogenically frozen leader. And when he and the group journey to 1500s California, what they find causes them to question what they know about history and the underpinnings of their society. With the jarring immediacy of a car crash, Philip K. Dick throws both the reader and protagonist of Dr. Futurity into a bizarre future where healing is a crime and youth rules.

About Philip K. Dick

Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928–1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, as well as television's The Man in the High Castle. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, including the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and between 2007 and 2009, the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on November 27, 2020

Dr. Futurity marks phase two of my PKD reading project. I just finished the last of Dick’s 1950’s novels and I’m entering the 60’s. Reading those early novels was good preparation for this one. I feel like Dr. Futurity is inferior to those novels, but I want to appreciate it as much as possible desp......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on February 10, 2017

As I mentioned in my review of Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel "Vulcan's Hammer," by 1959, the future Hugo winner was feeling decidedly disenchanted with science fiction in general, despite having had published some 85 short stories and half a dozen novels in that genre. The author, it seems, was still......more

Goodreads review by Estelle on December 03, 2015

I love the way the book started and got really excited when Parsons was sentenced to be exiled to Mars, but, sadly, he never made it and the rest of the book turned into a big mess. I've never been a huge fan of time traveling stories in the first place and this one was no exception, no matter how m......more

Goodreads review by Brian on January 13, 2012

Only PKD can take the element of time travel to a level that is not cliche. As with some of his other sci-fi books, you tend to forget you're reading science fiction and find yourself just reading brilliant fiction. Dr Jim Parsons is in a car accident and finds himself in a future society. But is the......more

Goodreads review by Chris_P on July 17, 2016

It gets the extra star only because I don't have the heart to give a 1-star rating to a Dick novel. I still can't believe this was actually written by the author of Do Androids dream of electric sheep, The man in the high castle and so many other books I've loved. It was like reading a ten-year-old......more