This eerie and unforgettable premise encapsulates Philip K Dick’s ambitious and inimitable approach to fiction writing. But in this counter-clock year of 1998 it isn’t that simple… When a powerful black leader is reborn, the Library’s one concern is to eliminate him before the renewal of racial violence tears the country apart.
The most powerful – and most feared – organisation in the world is the Library, in charge of expunging the written records of events, which have no longer happened. Old people emerge from their graves, grow to middle age, youth, adolescence and childhood to be finally unborn in their mothers wombs. Time runs backwards in the Counter-Clock World. “Dick is the American writer who in recent years has most influenced non-American poets, novelists, and essayists.Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning ‘Time’s Arrow’ by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger. What would you do if your long-dead relatives started coming back? Who would take care of them? And what if they preferred being dead? In Counter-Clock World, these troubling questions are addressed though, as always, you may have to figure out the answers yourself. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first-but their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave. People greet each other with “goodbye,” blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. Dick, author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?-the basis for the film Blade Runner. Counter-Clock World is a theological and philosophical adventure in a world set in reverse from the Hugo Award–winning science fiction novelist Philip K.
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