Now Wait For Last Year - Philip K. Dick Book Review

Enter a review
of your own!

Other books by
author Philip K. Dick

"Now Wait For Last Year"
Message Board

Philip K. Dick Resident Scholar Profiles

TOP SCHOLAR: David Loftus

SCHOLARS: Scott David Mclemore Robert Hadley Harriet Klausner Sam Batterson Jason Seward M Gandy Alexander Babiera Jesi Bornemann Future Boy

Would you like to be a scholar and make five dollars per review? Click here to submit a review!

Review Summaries
"The setting is Earth, which actually is a lost colony of our mother planet, at war with an insect life form. An artificial surgeon who is in his wife's shadow gets promoted into the U.N. president's chief doctor. Now his miserable, yet simple, life is complicated with addiction to lethal time traveling drugs, an ailing egomaniac and sick leader, shifting allies and espionage in the war, and getting back to his own time and universe. He manages to help resolve the problems of humanity on Earth, but he still can't decide to leave his repulsive wife." Sam Batterson, Resident Philip K. Dick Scholar
"Under the leadership of UN General Secretary Gino Molinari, Terrans have sided with the powerful, humanoid "Starmen" from the Lilistar system in their war with the reegs of Proxima, antlike beings with an exoskeleton and four arms. (The year is 2055.) The protagonist, a surgeon who specializes in organ transplants named Eric Sweetscent, is summoned to minister to the ailing and dispirited Molinari. Eric's wife Kathy does well-paid work for magnate Virgil Ackerman, locating and purchasing antiques to recreate the 1935 Washington DC of his childhood. (Through medical techniques and organ replacements, Ackerman is 130 years old.) But Kathy becomes instantly addicted to the experimental drug JJ-180, which can temporarily unstick a person in time, and eventually Eric becomes addicted too, and encounters and helps himself during jaunts between the 1930s and 2160s. Is it really Molinari he's tending to? Does Molinari really want to die ... or is he already long dead? And which side of the war would it really benefit Earth to be on?" David Loftus, Resident Philip K. Dick Scholar
"NOW WAIT FOR LAST YEAR was written by Philip K. Dick in 1966. Eric Sweetscent has been hired as the private doctor of Gino Molinari, head of the army forces of the Earth. Molinari has the difficult task to negotiate with Earth's allies coming from the planet Lillistar in order to present a common army against the Reegs that look like insects with a brain. In the meantime, Kathy, Eric Sweetscent's wife, is addicted to a time control drug and loses the sense of reality." Daniel Staebler, Resident Philip K. Dick Scholar

Click above for the new Obama Girl Parody video!

Overall Review

Our unique search engine breaks down books and movies into dozens of literary elements, all of which are searchable.

Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 35%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 25%

FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Time Travel: - into past and future equally
Political power play Yes
Political plotlets - factions fight within govt for control - preventing/managing clash/war between govts/kingdoms
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - doctor
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - druggie/wino disease

Main Adversary
Identity: - an entire race
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount

Setting
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century) - medium future 22-24th century
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
scientific jargon? (SF only) - an average amount of scientific explanation
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

Most similar books by Gordonator ranking
Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton
When the Past Meets the Present by John Orizon
Kaleidoscope Century by John Barnes
Millennium by John Varley
A Very Strange Trip by L. Ron Hubbard

Note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer(s).

Try our new Star Wars & Star Trek puzzle pictures! Click here

Advertise with us
Feedback
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith plot spoilers
Hobbits
The politics game
The lawyer game

3 Book search options!
1) Simple lookup
(title or author)

or
2) Detailed book search
(click here) or

3) One-click plot searches! Simply click on a plot below!

Animal Story

Clones

Coming of age

Cultural problems, alien culture

Explore/1st contact/ enviro story

Family relations

GIANT monster(s)

Horror story?

Inner Struggle

Lifeform altered?

Mental/magical powers focus

Parody

Political power play

Religious overtones?

Repressive society story

Robots, Computers, VR

Romance

Spying & Investigations

Tech./$$$/Info hunt

Time Travel story?

Training/Apprent.

War or Invasion

Games:
Trivia Masters!

Rescue your favorite
scifi characters from
slavery!

Talk to your favorite
scifi characters!

Eating New Yorkers
Computer Game

Pomeranians

Most recent TV & Movie discussions:

Charmed: Is Piper really a Halliwell? 11/13/2009 11:30:45 AM

Lord of the Rings: Why would Aragorn choose pig lips Arwen Evenstar over Eowyn? 11/12/2009 6:40:39 PM

Xena: 37 reasons why Xena and Gabrielle are... you know.... 11/12/2009 7:23:13 AM

A Boy and His Dog: A Boy and His Dog 11/11/2009 11:48:16 PM

Battlestar Galactica: Was Battlestar Galactica politically conservative? 11/1/2009 9:51:45 AM

Battlestar Galactica: Why were the Cylons so slow and thinking impaired? 10/31/2009 8:36:52 PM

Blade Runner: Blade Runner 10/22/2009 2:43:11 AM

Star Trek Enterprise: Jolene Blalock on T'Pol and Star Trek Enterprise 10/19/2009 2:48:46 PM

Charmed: If Piper Halliwell gets pregnant, can Leo give her an abortion? 10/3/2009 12:29:33 PM

Star Wars: Why did stormtroopers wear armor that didn't work against blasters? 9/30/2009 9:48:47 PM

Newest slaves:
Paris Hilton 9:46:24 PM
Jenny Garth (Beverly Hills 90210) 9:46:24 PM
Gene Hackman (Lex Luthor) 9:44:05 PM
George Lucas 9:43:48 PM
Denzel Washington 9:43:25 PM
John Belushi (Jake Blues Brothers) 9:42:21 PM
Joan Crawford 9:41:22 PM
Susan Lucci 9:40:44 PM
Meryl Streep 9:40:24 PM
Barbara Bain (Cinnimon Mission Impossible) 9:40:02 PM
All slaves
(click here)

Celebrity interviews:
President George W. Bush 6:32:00 PM
Jan-Michael Vincent 2:16:51 PM
Captain Kathryn Janeway 3:47:46 PM
Jack ONeill (Richard Dean Anderson) 1:39:22 PM
Jennifer Aniston (Friends) 5:01:07 PM
All celebrities
(click here)