The Simulacra — Philip K. Dick

This is a novel of some very extraordinary people in the very extraordinary world of the 21st Century.

They include a striking beauty who had ruled the White House for nearly a century, a pianist who played without touching the keyboard, the world's last practicing psychiatrist, a rabble- rousing time traveler, and a host of other men, women, simulacra, "chuppers," and conniving things, all meshed together in an intricately plotted novel of idea and counter-idea, action and reaction.

It's a Philip K. Dick story of the future, a steady pyrotechnic display such as has made its author a top-rated Hugo winner.