With this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the storyplot of a harmful love affair with one about sentient robots, and unflinchingly sights everything through the prism of mental illness – which spares neither human nor robot. The end result is one of Dick’s most quietly powerful works.

When Louis Rosen’s electronic-organ business creates a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, the firm is pulled in to the orbit of a shady businessman, who is looking to make use of Lincoln for his own profit. In the mean time, Rosen seeks Lincoln’s information as he woos a female incapable of understanding human emotions – a person who may be even more robotic than Lincoln’s look-alike.