ABSTRACT
While the setting of Martian Time Slip and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is characterized by the sparse environment of a near-deserted natural world, in A Maze of Death (1970) the narrative is set in two artifi cial, isolated environments: one, a computer generated virtual reality created by the fourteen-member crew, which they experience as the planet Delmak-O, and the other the stranded spaceship where characters are physically present, caught in orbit around a dead star. In addition to the two distinctive settings, the narration presents the point of view of each of the fourteen characters in the Delmak-O colony. As Dick explains in the Foreword, “the approach in this novel is highly subjective; at any given time, reality is seen-not directly-but indirectly, i.e., through the mind of one of the characters” (n.p.).
