We Can Build You (Daw UQ1014)

ISBN: 0879970146

Author: Philip K. Dick

Condition: Used

They began as manufacturers of electronic mood organs and player pianos. Then they improved the line - they started building exact simulacra of famous men. They thought that people would play a good price to have anyone they wanted made to order - to talk with, befriend, and eventually utilize for any purpose they wanted.

But they ran into trouble. For one thing an exactly programmed reconstruction of a famous man is going to be obstinate and as character-complex as the real man was - and nobody's puppet.

For another, they got involved with a project for settling the moon with their creations. And finally they got tangled up with thier own personal identities.

It's a Philip K. Dick masterpiece, future-thinking, complex plotting, and typically "different" - as is to be expected from the Hugo-winning author of The Man in the High Castle, Eye in the Sky, and Solar Lottery.

Cover Illustration: John Schoenherr