Straws pulled at random - the book.

The only merit this book has is that it has PKD written on the cover. I can't imagine anyone giving this a second thought if that wasn't the case. ( )

Para mantener la competitividad de sus productos una compañía en decadencia se lanza a un proyecto alocado: la construcción de simulacros, réplicas robot de seres humanos. La ideainicial es hacer revivir personajes históricos, e incluso se plantea la posibilidad de reconstruir la guerra civil americana. El proyecto sigue adelante con éxito y los primeros simulacros se ponen en funcionamiento. Uno de ellos, el propio Abraham Lincoln…

This is kind of a delightful, oddball story

Dick is up to his usual psych tricks: A robot Abe Lincoln, with more soul than its schizophrenic teen creator, appears as deus ex machina.

Yet another classic PKD. :) A lot of great humor in this one, too. Lincoln and Edward Stanton, brought back to life and running a corporation that sells simulacra, android re-creations of real people? Well, that's hardly everything in this novel.

Most of it knocks the ball out of the park about relationships, madness, and a misdiagnosis. I really think it's not Schizophrenia he's talking about, but Autism. Or in the spectrum. And that's all kinds of cool, too, when it comes to modern novels. But of course, PKD has always jumped feet-first in that particular pool.

Interestingly enough, this novel deals with the pre-Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep time, with Simulacra JUST getting on the market, getting that push to take on and prepare colonies off Earth, and EVEN Mood Organs. :) So much of that is hilarious and/or disturbing when you think about how things go later on.

This is definitely one of the livelier and light PKD novels out there, focusing more on doomed relationships and fantasies than most. Kinda fitting, considering the theme. Are we just machines? Are we slaves to our passions, or are we making new slaves for our passions? Even funnier when you consider that LINCOLN himself has become a slave of sorts. :)

( )