The Simulacra Author:Philip K. Dick Earth in the twenty-first century was a shifting, shadowy and dangerous world. Most people were content merely to survive, and to grab what little pleasure they could. But there were other who cunningly played he game of world mastery. Among them were the outstandingly beautiful women who had ruled the White House for nearly a century, the wo... more »rld's last practising psychiatrist, a psychokinetic pianist, the time traveller, the 'chuppers', and the simulacra ...« less