Another silly, crazy Dick joint. I phrased that because I like writing the phrase "dick joint."
Anyway, it's silly-serious in a racist, painful way (the leader of the world's resistance is Percy X, a "Neeg-part.") The suffix "-part" is used throughout the book to demarcate a place, person, or partisan group; no explanation is given. I suppose it has something to do with schizophrenia, which, BTW, is rampant in this book. I imagine Nelson being brought in to do his best to put out the fires of crazy. Despite the odd word choices, the story is really great (telepathic worms which systematically enslave races across the galaxy arrive; we join about 3/4s of the way thru their conquest of Earth and witness the heroic resistance, attempted subversion by humans trying to secure their own personal glory; eventual triumph of the humans, but it doesn't matter) like most Dick books, set in a believable future Earth. Curiously my ability to see Dick's worlds as socially accurate has increased with the move to california.
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