Now Wait For Last Year

Name: Now Wait For Last Year
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9798894864495

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/16/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner—Now Wait For Last Year is the novel of an Earth caught in an interstellar war and of an addictive hallucinogenic drug that causes time travel side effects.

Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of it all, a new drug has just entered circulation—a drug that haphazardly sends its users traveling through time.

In an attempt to escape his doomed marriage, Dr. Eric Sweetscent becomes caught up in all of it. But he has questions: Is Earth on the right side of the war? Is he supposed to heal Earth’s leader or keep him sick? And can he change the harrowing future that the drug has shown him?

"[Dick is] a true visionary, a writer who has enlarged our literature and continues to vex it."—Chicago Tribune

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 Glenn on April 03, 2019

Welcome to the science fiction world of Philip K. Dick’s 1966 novel Now Wait for Last Year. We are plunged into the teeth of a mid-twenty-first century interplanetary war: Lillistar, (human-like beings with superhuman strength) vs reggs (human-size semi-mechanical bugs). Just so happens Terra (Plane......more

Goodreads review by mark on February 12, 2025

"...suicide is painless It brings on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. I try to find a way to make all our little joys relate without that ever-present hate but now I know that it's too late..." that song could have been written for the Dick that wrote this book, and for its hero. Er......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on December 28, 2017

I treated myself to a rather more obscure PKD book to end out the year. I've always loved just how wonky his works can get, but here's the really interesting aspect of Horselover Fat's writing: it's never really wonky. In fact, it has heart. Especially when that heart is breaking, the story is still......more

Goodreads review by David on December 08, 2025

My 26th PKD novel. It would be silly to start by saying 'This is one of the more challenging Dick novels.' ~ mainly because, in their own ways, each of the author's books is challenging (for one reason or another). It can also be a matter of degrees. That said... much like 'Ubik', 'NWFLY' (great tit......more