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The Broken Bubble by Philip K. Dick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Broken Bubble about?

Four people's lives intertwine and collide in this early novel from one of the SF greats San Francisco in the 1950s, a turning point in American culture: the rise of rock and roll and the teenage lifestyle. Jim Briskin is a disc jockey on radio KOIF. He's still in love with his ex-wife, Pat - even though she's about to marry someone else at the station - and she's vacillating between them. But when he takes her to visit the desperate household of two of his teenage fans, she seduces the boy into abandoning his pregnant wife - who then claims Jim as her protector and support. And all around them the cultural upheaval of postwar American society is manifest, by teenage outcasts who have a remote-controlled Nazi automobile they use to bump into the rich kids' cars; by Thisbe Holt, the dancer who performs for conventioneers by stuffing herself inside a clear plastic bubble; by blaring used-car ads and the conflict between generations. Dick gives us a vision of redemption tempered with layered ironies and a lot of real humour.

Who reads The Broken Bubble?

Author

Philip K. Dick

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780575133099

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Fiction, Cyberpunk

Rating

3.33 / 5 (259 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13