Can this be the most underrated book and author of (at least SF literature) all time? In my opinion, yes. I’ll try to let you know why I’ve made this decision without giving too much spoilers. If you’re looking for a short but packed story , please try this one!

Philip K.Dick’s classic SF story was published back in 1959, the year in which the action takes place. But is it? … Following a lazy but smart main character, Ragle Gumm, we are driven in a crazy ride and the destination is simply unexpected. Different time, different city, different world. It looks like the author tried to put in value the difference between the environment we think we live in and the one that it actually is.

Remember the year of publication and watch the world around you! We think we live in a clean and healthy world, we are not! We think we are living in a disconnected world, we are not! Each and every of our steps has a continuation or an impact. When you decide not to recycle that bottle of plastic a turtle might die in Pacific Ocean!

Another main idea of this book is the influence of technology within our lives. Even though the author managed to guess / imagine a 4 hour per day TV ‘slavery’ …. weeeel, we succeed to take this a step further away. The black mirrors are everywhere in our lives; we are unable to imagine a world without TVs, phones, internet and so on.

It’s very hard to write about a book without giving spoilers, so I’ll end up before doing it. And I’ll try to end up just like the book, make sure you are not the center of an universe gone terribly awry. Read this book and leave a comment.