Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick

Berkley Medallion 
1974 
Paperback  
160 pages 
10.5 x 17.5cm 

Condition: Good 

Expanded from his 1967 short story Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday, PKD's Counter-Clock World is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger. 

Old people emerge from their graves, grow to middle age, youth, adolescence and childhood to be finally unborn in their mothers wombs. The most powerful – and most feared – organisation in the world is the Library, in charge of expunging the written records of events, which have no longer happened. 

When a powerful black leader is reborn, the Library's one concern is to eliminate him before the renewal of racial violence tears the country apart.