InCounter-Clock World,time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with “goodbye,”blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of thoserising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number ofgroups start a mad scramble to find him first—but their motives are notexactly benevolent because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead thanalive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back tothe grave.What would you do if your long-dead relatives startedcoming back? Who would take care of them? And what if they preferredbeing dead? InCounter-Clock World, one of Dick’s mosttheological and philosophical novels, these troubling questions areaddressed; though, as always, you may have to figure out the answersyourself.