Martian Time-Slip | The Three Webs Integrated into Dick's Novels
In the following essay, Aldiss identifies and explains the three webs that are integrated into Dick’s novels and how they are used in Martian Time-slip: the web of civilization, the web of human relationships, and the web connecting all the good and bad things in the universe. In addition, Aldiss discusses the comic effects and dark wit in the book.
Arnie Kott is on his way back into a schizoid variant of the recent past:
The trail levelled out and became wider. And all was in shadow; cold and damp hung over everything, as if they were treading within a great tomb. The vegetation that grew thin and noxious along the surface of the rocks had a dead quality to it, as if something had poisoned it in its act of growing. Ahead lay a dead bird on the path, a rotten corpse that might have been there for weeks; he could not tell.
The setting is Mars, which is now partly colonized. Colonists live along...
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