Philip K. Dick Award ふぃりっぷ・けー・でぃっくしょう
Edition 17 (1999)
science fictionpaperback original novel
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Geoffrey Charles Ryman
Winner
An experimental novel that gives one page to each of 253 London Underground passengers. By shifting viewpoint in tiny increments, it connects fragmentary lives within the moving space of the city.
A seven-and-a-half-minute Tube ride carries 253 lives in parallel.
364 pages
experimental fictionLondon Undergroundurban ensemblefragmented viewpointmodern city life