The Dick Covers – The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Timescape, 1982 First Edition Hardcover

This book took me a couple tries to make it through as I found it a bit dull at the beginning and even after finishing it wasn’t all that excited but the strange thing is the story is one that I vividly remember more than some of Dick’s other works. Must be my love of depressing stories of suicide and adultery.

Cover painting is by Richard Powers who was a superb science fiction surrealist artist. His work is definitely worth searching for. There’s a book of his work that might be out of print but thanks to the tubes you should be able to find it somewhere. Here’s another one of his paintings :