{"first_publish_date": "1964", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world\u2019s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.\r\n\r\nIn classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems."}, "title": "The Simulacra", "covers": [284448, 229270, 10696309], "lc_classifications": ["PS3554.I3 S46 2002"], "key": "/works/OL2172517W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL274606A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL6624873A"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Presidents", "Androids", "Presidents' spouses", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Fiction, political", "Presidents, fiction", "Fiction in English"], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T23:04:06.334379"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-08-28T04:51:44.661960"}}