Hello! My name is Arianna Cook and this is the blog I'll be using for Readers' Advisory Spring 2020!
Sci-Fi Annotation: Author: Philip K. Dick Title: A Maze of Death Genre: Sci-fi Publication date: 1970 Number of pages: 190 Geographical setting: Fictional planets: Tekel Upharsin and Delmark-O Time period: In the distant future after Earth is deemed uninhabitable. Plot summary: This book follows fourteen people who have been "reassigned" to a planet called Delmark-O. While each character seems integral to the story, the main character is Seth Morley, a marine biologist. Morley and his wife are reassigned to Delmark-O after Morley prays for a transfer. The prayer is processed by the Interprocessor (One part of a future religion founded by a man named Specktowsky who wrote a book called How I Rose From the Dead in My Spare Time and So Can You , the future Bible equivalent) and Morley and his wife make their way to their newly assigned planet. When they arrive they meet the others, people with various jobs and seemingly nothing in common. N...
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