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The Game-Players of Titan, by Philip K. Dick
Humanity is in big trouble, which I know comes as a surprise in a pkd book! Seems that we have
lost a war, or at least come to an uneasy truce, with the Vugs of Titan, and that a biological
weapon has rendered almost all of Earth's dwindled population infertile. The few survivors are
divided into stark allegorical classes of Bindmen and non-B, where Bindmen are property owners,
like owning all of Berkeley CA, and they play a Monopoly-like game devised by the Titans in which the deeds to
those properties are the stakes.
Always count on pkd for a mind-bending good time, and there is plenty of that to be had here. Telekinesis,
mind reading, spatial shifts between planets, narcotics, take your pick. My favorite exchange in the book
is without a doubt Joe Schilling asking his car to drive him to Carmel to play the game, to which his car Max
replies "Up yours!" If this isn't the future we're building for ourselves, I'll be as surprised as I am disappointed.
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