The author’s attempt to usher us into a familiarly unique world, while assembling the building blocks that would propel its characters and, potentially, the world forward, is a rather successful one. A hunger for understanding of its building blocks and mechanics was satisfied through its larger and interwoven canvas of characters, and its core mystery that relates to its titular character finds its way to relevance by its end. It speaks on the idea of truth, meaning, and significance, all explored within the domains of spirituality, socioeconomics, politics, and culture. We are treated to a world different from our own, yet it desires to explore why an alternative exists, how it could exist in relation to our own, and knowing of that knowledge and what can be done about it. The clarity of its response to such questions will not satisfy particular readers, but for those that are happy to simply have such questions be pondered and formed towards one’s own hypothesis and impressions, then Philip K. Dick has successfully produced a housing for such rumination.