cover - Typical leather-jacketed early-thirties hero type stares thoughtfully out from a Blade-<BR>runner-esque background of futuristic industrialism. Objects of indeterminate <BR>function but industrial appearance float in the sky in the background. On a wall <BR>behind our hero is painted the colours of a large Japanese flag. It's an advert <BR>apparently for Saki

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War

Philip K Dick is tripping the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the United States divided between the Japanese and the Nazisin the neutral buffer zone that divides the rival superpowers in America lives the author of an underground bestseller. His book - a rallying cry for all those who dream of overthrowing the occupiers - offers an alternative theory of world history. Does "reality" lie with him, or is his world just one among many others?

Star Trek The Next Generation

Philip K Dick