Tiempo de Marte
Philip K. Dick
Minotauro (2002)
Science Fiction Literary Classics

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This design collection celebrates two titles by Philip K. Dick, a science fiction writer whose novels have inspired many movies, including the well-known Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner.

In Tiempo de Marte, the Spanish edition of Martian Time-Slip, on the arid colony of Mars, the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the United Nations has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, other people - especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union - suspect that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future. Una Mirada a la Oscuridad, the Spanish edition of A Scanner Darkly, is set in a dystopian California where an undercover agent who calls himself Bob Arctor infiltrates the drug subculture. Desperately working his way to the source of supply, he becomes addicted to "Substance D”, a powerful drug that destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres.

The collection’s visual identity is based on a strong typographic scheme using the author's name as the main compositional axis that changes its orientation with each title along with the choice of a Pantone color-based code. The almost abstract artwork that illustrates the dust jackets renders the bizarre fantasies and parallel universes in Dick's mind, featuring a single preeminent ingredient that encapsulates each novel: the surrealist Martian water or a brain hemorrhage induced by the powerful drug in the novel often referred to as just “D".

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