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Just finished reading this one, an early PKD novel (novelette?).
Anyone would care to discuss it? Here's a plot summary from wikipedia.
Plot introduction (*****SPOILERS*****)
Dr. Jim Parsons, is a doctor from 2112, born in 2080. Abruptly, he undergoes involuntary time travel to 2405 CE, and finds that his profession is treated with disdain. In this overpopulated future, individuality is sacrificed for the good of the human race as a whole. By killing off the weak, poverty and disease are eliminated, and humanity has an optimal chance for survival. Moreover, African Americans and Native Americans control this future world, and caucasians have wiped themselves out in the past.
After curing a dying woman, Chancellor Stenog exiles Parsons to Mars, but his spaceship is intercepted en route, and Parsons is returned to Earth. On finding a marker, he is directed to a Native American tribal lodge, where he must perform surgery to save the life of a wounded Native American time traveller, Corith, after the latter had previously died from an arrow wound. Parsons extracts the arrow, but it mysteriously rematerialises in Corith's body.
To resolve this situation, Parsons and Corith's relatives travel back to Corith's previous assignment in Elizabethan England, where he was to kill Sir Francis Drake, and change history. While observing this, Parsons realises that Drake is actually Chancellor Stenog, and tries to warn Corith- who dies due to his distraction.
Stranded in Elizabethan England, Parsons is rescued by Loris, one of Corith's female relatives, who will have Parson's child in the future. Parsons decides to kill Corith after his surgery, but one of Loris' jealous former lovers does so before he can. Parsons is returned to 2112, and manufactures the marker that his past "future" self will discover in 2405.
Anyone would care to discuss it? Here's a plot summary from wikipedia.
Plot introduction (*****SPOILERS*****)
Dr. Jim Parsons, is a doctor from 2112, born in 2080. Abruptly, he undergoes involuntary time travel to 2405 CE, and finds that his profession is treated with disdain. In this overpopulated future, individuality is sacrificed for the good of the human race as a whole. By killing off the weak, poverty and disease are eliminated, and humanity has an optimal chance for survival. Moreover, African Americans and Native Americans control this future world, and caucasians have wiped themselves out in the past.
After curing a dying woman, Chancellor Stenog exiles Parsons to Mars, but his spaceship is intercepted en route, and Parsons is returned to Earth. On finding a marker, he is directed to a Native American tribal lodge, where he must perform surgery to save the life of a wounded Native American time traveller, Corith, after the latter had previously died from an arrow wound. Parsons extracts the arrow, but it mysteriously rematerialises in Corith's body.
To resolve this situation, Parsons and Corith's relatives travel back to Corith's previous assignment in Elizabethan England, where he was to kill Sir Francis Drake, and change history. While observing this, Parsons realises that Drake is actually Chancellor Stenog, and tries to warn Corith- who dies due to his distraction.
Stranded in Elizabethan England, Parsons is rescued by Loris, one of Corith's female relatives, who will have Parson's child in the future. Parsons decides to kill Corith after his surgery, but one of Loris' jealous former lovers does so before he can. Parsons is returned to 2112, and manufactures the marker that his past "future" self will discover in 2405.
