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Lies, Inc.
- Author
- Philip K. Dick
- Narrator
- Jefferson Mays
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Publish Date
- 8 August 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into crammed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never come back.
When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a spaceship on the 18-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return…
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- Author
- Philip K. Dick
- Narrator
- Jefferson Mays
- Duration
- 8 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9781004217175
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- W. F. Howes Ltd
- Genre
- Dystopian and utopian fiction, Science fiction: space exploration, Science fiction
Synopsis
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into crammed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never come back. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a spaceship on the 18-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return…
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