Dr. Bloodmoney (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip K. Dick
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—post-holocaust
- Time of Work: 1981 and several years following
- Setting: Berkeley, California, and Marin County, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Extrasensory perception or powers, 1980’s, California, West, U.S., Nuclear warfare or weapons, Twins or multiple-birth siblings
- Locales: Berkeley, CA, Marin County, CA
The Plot
Dr. Bloodmoney: Or, How We Got Along After the Bomb is a good example of Philip K. Dick’s masterful control of complex plotting, moving from the banal to the extraordinary in deft, swift strokes. The novel is also an example of Dick’s multifocused plotting, which begins by delineating the separate, idiosyncratic lives of several characters who do not initially know one another but whose lives eventually will be intimately bound together.
The story begins in 1981, with introductions quickly provided of virtually all the characters who will find their...
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