cover - A white head and shoulders, eyes closed, against a black background, is apparently <BR>wearing a crown of thorns. Closer inspection, though, reveals the crown to be made of buildings.

The dead grow young, in a world where time has reversed its flow - Moving backwards!

Now that the Hobart Phase is in effect, Officer Joseph Tinbane isn't surprised when he hears a voice speaking to him from beneath the ground. He isn't going mad. Not at all. It is just one of the "old-born" wanting to be dug up.

For time is moving backwards, people grow younger instead of older, to return finally to the womb

Philip K Dick has written a remarkable and compelling novel about time - a time which heals but can also destroy. And one man struggling alone in a world gone awry.

Star Trek The Next Generation

Philip K Dick