On the ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances gather a disparate band of character types, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who takes on his instrument along with his brain, a First Female who calls all the shots, as well as the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must cope with an underclass that’s beginning to consult a few way too many queries, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien. In traditional Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines period travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to make a rousing, mind-bending tale where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it appears.