<b>Philip K. Dick is the bestselling author of Minority Report and Blade Runner. </b> <br/> <br/> In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, which is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch. <br/><br/><b>About the Author</b><br/><br/> Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are <i>The Man In The High Castle, Time Out Of Joint, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.</i>