As I was searching the internet for books to read about Abraham Lincoln, I ran across this Philip K. Dick novel that I had never heard of, which was supposed to feature Lincoln as one of the characters. As it turns out, it only marginally concerns a simulacrum (android) of Lincoln, being instead primarily the story of a man's obsession with the psychopathic girl who created the android.
As always with Dick, the plot is convoluted. One of its concerns is the difference between human and non-human, much as in his more well-known novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the basis of the movie Blade Runner). This is certainly not one of Dick's best; it is rather sloppily written and seems to contain few of the quirks that make his best books memorable. I do not recommend it except for die-hard Dick fans.
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