The Unteleported Man - aka Lies, Inc. Author:Philip K. Dick Life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion. Overpopulation has turned cities into crammed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: T — ake a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the suprem... more »e paradise. The only catch is that you can never come back. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a spaceship on the 18-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return.
Fyi: There is a note by the author's agent facing the copyright page explaining the this edition restores 30,000 words which were cut for "commercial" reasons by Ace Books in their 1966 edition. Four pages of the original manuscript remained lost at the time of this book's publication.« less