And if so, do you think the new material (which was not in the original published version, The Unteleported Man) makes any kind of logical sense whatsoever?
(The new material begins and ends with the phrase "Acrid smoke billowed about him.")
I mean, I am well aware that a major theme in many of Philip K. Dick's novels is the question of the nature of reality, and all that crap. But it seems that "Lies, Inc."'s new material is simply in the WRONG PLACE. They should have added it to the very end of the novel. It would clear up a great many things, such as:
- In the expanded version, Rachmael ben Applebaum takes the teleport journey to Whale's Mouth. (Which is in itself nonsensical, since a major plot point is that Rachmael refuses to use the Telpor, and insists on journeying there by spaceship.) Later on, some time after the original text resumes, he is on his own spaceship - with no explanation as to how he got there!
- Immediately after the expanded section ends, Rachmael simply disappears from a scene, and Matson Glazer-Holliday appears in his place (right before MGH is killed by a soldier's laser). Again, no explanation is given.
- Eye-eaters. The hell?
Anyone else here read either version of this novel? Do you agree with what I said about it?
(The new material begins and ends with the phrase "Acrid smoke billowed about him.")
I mean, I am well aware that a major theme in many of Philip K. Dick's novels is the question of the nature of reality, and all that crap. But it seems that "Lies, Inc."'s new material is simply in the WRONG PLACE. They should have added it to the very end of the novel. It would clear up a great many things, such as:
- In the expanded version, Rachmael ben Applebaum takes the teleport journey to Whale's Mouth. (Which is in itself nonsensical, since a major plot point is that Rachmael refuses to use the Telpor, and insists on journeying there by spaceship.) Later on, some time after the original text resumes, he is on his own spaceship - with no explanation as to how he got there!
- Immediately after the expanded section ends, Rachmael simply disappears from a scene, and Matson Glazer-Holliday appears in his place (right before MGH is killed by a soldier's laser). Again, no explanation is given.
- Eye-eaters. The hell?
Anyone else here read either version of this novel? Do you agree with what I said about it?