Book cover of Martian Time-Slip: Philip K. Dick's Psychological Science Fiction Classic of Time Travel and Paranoid Visions on Mars

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Combining political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything, Hugo Award–winning author Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip follows a group of exiled colonists on Mars and the ten-year-old psychic among them—a boy whose altered perception of reality is so powerful…

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