The Crack in Space

Name: The Crack in Space
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9798894863801

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/16/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

For a far-future overpopulated Earth, a parallel world may be ripe for colonization—or conquest—in Hugo Award–winning author Philip K. Dick's The Crack in Space. When a repairman accidentally discovers a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease Earth’s overcrowding, set up a personal kingdom, or hide an inconvenient mistress. But when a civilization is found already living there, the people on this side of the crack are sent scrambling to discover their motives. Will these parallel humans come in peace, or are they just as corrupt and ill-intentioned as the people of this world? "Dick’s best books always describe a future that is both entirely recognizable and utterly unimaginable."—New York Times Book Review

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 Luca on March 11, 2020

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......more

Goodreads review by Tim on January 03, 2020

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......more

Goodreads review by David on July 29, 2024

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......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on January 10, 2025

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......more

Goodreads review by Baba on October 07, 2021

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......more