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From back cover of Timescape paperback March 1981: IN A MEGA CITY OF THE FUTURE... They were nice ladies, really. Just bored. And they never expected to succeed. But intoning ancient rituals to raise the devil, they unwittingly began a rampage of rape, torture and murder. For they concocted a new devil: Golem 100. And the Golem continues to grow... Tracking the monstrous path of depravity are three super talents: Gretchen Nunn, beautiful, black master of psychodynamics; Blaise Shirma, her brilliant chemist lover; and the shrewd policeman Subadar Ind'dni. Their hunt takes them into real and subliminal worlds of dazzling intensity, through the heart of the collective unconscious and beyond... where they battle for their souls and for the survival of humanity. But even these three super intelligences are up against their limits. For now the Golem has acquired a new identity. And the Golem continues to grow...

Millville, USA. A small town like countless others, with people who assume that life as we know it is the only kind of life. If there's anything unusual about the village, it's the strange and beautiful profusion of purple flowers that bloom in nearly everyone's backyard. To Tupper Tyler, the village idiot, who disappeared into a field of purple blossoms ten years before, they were gentle creatures, the only ones who ever accepted him . . . To Brad Carter, who entered an alternate dimension inhabited by silver-crested men who spoke in music, and primitive, evanescent women, they were a brilliant race looking for a place in the sun ... And to the terror-stricken residents of Millville, they were either an undreamed of link to the future or a frightening, unstoppable force.

The Preserving Machine is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Ace Books in 1969 with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon as part of their Ace Science Fiction Specials series. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, Beyond Fantasy Fiction, If, Amazing Stories, Planet Stories, Worlds of Tomorrow, Imagination and Satellite. A hardcover issue of this book was released through the Book-of-the-Month Club (USA) in late 1969 and remained available through 1970. It is an octavo-sized book, bound in gray textured paper boards, stamped in green on the spine, in a dust-cover with "Book Club Edition" printed in lieu of the price on the bottom front flap. Other hardcover editions were published in 1971 and 1972 respectively by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, and the Science Fiction Book Club, Newton Abbot, Devon.

A collection of three science fiction stories about love and relationships