Counter-Clock World

My first book for the Speculative Reading Challenge is Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick. This is my first Philip K. Dick novel and it was very interesting and fun to read but completely bizarre. Time has started to run backwards, the dead come back to life, everyone’s age is reversing until small babies get absorbed by women– really weird world.

The story itself revolves around the resurrection of a religious leader. There are those who want to stop this from happening, fanatics who want to worship him, and the people who work at the Vitarium (the business that digs up the newly revived people and sells them to the highest bidder) who are just trying to do their job and get entangled in this religious and political power struggle.

I will say again that this was a really weird book! That doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it, I did, but it just was bizarre.  To see what other people have read for the challenge go to Floor to Ceiling Books.