Dr. Bloodmoney

What happens after the bombs drop? This is the troubling question that Philip K. Dick addresses with Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb. It is the story of a world reeling from the effects of nuclear annihilation and fallout, a world where mutated humans and animals are the norm, and the scattered survivors take comfort from a disc jockey endlessly circling the globe in a broken-down satellite. And hidden amongst the survivors is Dr. Bloodmoney himself, the man responsible for it all. A sort of companion to Dr. Strangelove, Dick's novel is just as full of dark comedy and just as chilling.