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The zap gun / Philip K. Dick.
LIBRA - Special PS3554.I3 Z37 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dick, Philip K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weapons industry--Fiction.
- Weapons industry.
- Arms race--Fiction.
- Arms race.
- Genre:
- Psychological fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for the worldUs two superpowers. Their job has been to invent innocuous weapons that only look harmful, but when alien satellites appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the hopes that they can create a real weapon to save the world. The result is a brilliant tale that displays DickUs inimitable ability to fuse scathing sarcasm with genuine empathy.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dick, Philip K. Zap gun.
- ISBN:
- 0375719369
- 9780375719363
- OCLC:
- 49550352
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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