Martian Time-Slip

New York: Ballantine Books, 1991. 5th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. 1991 5th printing. Spine lightly creased, pages toned, ink name inside. 220 pp. By the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (which inspired Bladerunner) and The Man in the High Castle. "Martian Time-Slip is a 1964 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The novel uses the common science fiction concept of a human colony on Mars. However, it also includes the themes of mental illness, the physics of time and the dangers of centralized authority. The novel is expanded from Dick's original novella All We Marsmen, published in three parts in the August, October and December 1963 issues of Worlds of Tomorrow magazine. The character of Manfred Steiner in this novel is very similar to Tim in Philip K. Dick's 1954 short story A World of Talent, first published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. The novel takes place several years after the first human colonies were established on Mars. Many colonies identify with certain nations - those of Israel and the United States are the largest - but are ultimately under the control of the United Nations. The U.N. seeks to establish a permanent, self-sufficient human presence on Mars because of concern that nuclear war will end human life on Earth.