Philip K. Dick operates perfectly in his first science fiction novels which will be its main theme: what is reality, what is our destiny, then the manipulation of reality for the purpose of it pouvoir.Mais does it with so much empathy, natural in daily detail that this is a true mirror of our world; The time is thus a disjointed testimony of a fake world, of awakening to another reality and the realization that some perversion prevents the perception of a broader vision of life; and the novel is less paranoid than it seems; the main character is "only" facing an arrangement of the world is different than he thought, and it seeks to return to the "normal", against the advice of a certain majority. The details of a decadent world and description of geopolitical conflicts are still as tasty with Dick, and unfortunately current. To read, in fact thinking of "Truman Show" which was inspired.