Crack in Space brought up really interesting ideas about what it means to be human and how we might react when confronted with another version of ourselves. I liked how it took race issues one step further. Planet of the Apes-esque, it's an eerie look at Dick's vision of our possible future. Creepiest for me was the vision of warehouses full of row upon row of sleeping/frozen bodies, young people, waiting for an unknown time when a better life might be available for them. The parallel-Earth thing was also a little mind-bending to think about. However as far as I know many of our top academic minds do believe in that idea of there being infinite possible worlds/lives playing out kind of super-imposed on top of each other (From the Corner of His Eye is a cool Dean Koontz book I like that also explores this idea).
The book made me remember how much I like his writing. Also made me want to learn more about prehistoric man. And parallel worlds.
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