In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet one another with “farewell,” blow smoke cigarettes into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one particular rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Top, a number of groups start a mad scramble to discover him first – but their motives are not specifically benevolent, because Anarch Maximum may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groupings will do whatever they need to to send out him back to the grave. What do you do in case your long-dead family members started returning? Would you take care of them? And what if they chosen being dead? In Counter-Clock World, among Dick’s most theological and philosophical books, these troubling questions are attended to; though, as constantly, you might have to figure out the answers yourself.