Martian Time-Slip … describes a desolate, end-of-the-century Mars inhabited by doomed clairvoyants, an obsessed tycoon and an autistic child-hero who together move through a landscape that uncannily resembles southern California perceived through the glaze of some deep psychosis…. [The] novel is full of incident, fusing terror and comedy in a unique way. More than any other SF writer, Dick is able to convey the sense of everyday reality as totally threatening. (p. 879)
J. G. Ballard, in New Statesman (© 1976 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), December 17, 1976.
This is a free excerpt of 91 words. There are 96 words (approx.
1 page at 300 words per page) in the full critical essay.
Read the rest of this Criticism with our Dick, Philip K(indred) 1928–: Critical Essay by J. G. Ballard Access Pass.
