by Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9781400030071
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«Deus Irae» is the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, published by Vintage Books in paperback (182 pages).
After the Third World War, the sect of the Servants of Wrath deifies Carlton Lufteufel, creator of the weapon that devastated the world, and commissions Tibor McMasters, a painter without limbs, to find the Deus Irae. While the surviving Christians try to prevent it, the painter crosses the radioactive wasteland. The title alludes to the «Dies Irae».
The novel is based on Dick's story «The Great C.» and originally appeared in 1976. This Vintage Books edition came out in 2003.
For science fiction readers interested in the collaboration between Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny and in worlds devastated by total war.
Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction.
