Counter-clock World

‘The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world’ John Brunner Time runs backwards in the Counter-Clock World. Old people emerge from their graves, grow to middle age, youth, adolescence and childhood to be finally unborn in their mothers’ wombs. The most powerful – and most feared – organization in the world is the Library, in charge of expunging the written records of events which have no longer happened. 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. But in this counter-clock year of 1998 it isn’t that simple… ‘Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise.’ Michael Moorcock ‘No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He has stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations.’ Brian W. Aldiss ‘An elusive and incomparable artist.’ Ursula Le Guin ‘My literary hero.’ Fay Weldon