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Martian Time-Slip Study Guide

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by Philip K. Dick
About 3 pages (909 words)
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Dick's dry language, functional to the limits of triviality, his rejection of any kind of lyricism and decorative description, is at the antipode of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (1950), which is also critical of the myth of progress prominent in much science fiction of the Golden Age. In terms of larger structures, in the central chapters concerned with the timeslip, Jack, Arnie, and Doreen, Jack's secretary, all experience a.....

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Martian Time-Slip from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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