Loved itThen about a decade later, he wrote a whole new middle act where the protagonist takes a load of weird drugs and goes on a very bad but very cool trip. And I love how these two stories separated by so much time crash together here.
Lies, Inc (1984)
Others: Positive The Unteleported Man (later republished in a greatly expanded version as Lies, Inc.) is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published as a novella in 1964. It is about a future in which a one-way teleportation technology enables 40 million people to immigrate to a colony named Whale's Mouth on an Earth-like planet, which advertisements show as a lush green utopia. When the owner of a failing spaceship travel firm tries to take the 18-year flight to the colony to bring back any unhappy colonists, powerful forces try to stop him from finding out the truth.
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