as to the paraworlds' descriptions could somehow cause one or the other paraworld to manifest itself ever more aggressively until eventually displacing the current reality-paradigm altogether. And Rachmael's own paraworld experience is said to be the worst one of all. Characters Rachmael ben Applebaum: The story's protagonist. Former owner of Applebaum Enterprise, a spaceship firm. Ben Applebaum is implied to be of Jewish-Israeli descent, which is a particular source of distaste for the Third Reich-esque German authority figures who he opposes. Theodoric Ferry: Leader of Trails of Hoffman, Ltd., which runs the teleportation machines. Matson Glazer-Holliday: Head of the police organization Lies, Incorporated. Freya Holm: Matson Glazer-Holliday's mistress, and an employee of Lies, Incorporated. Sepp von Einem: Creator of the telpor device, and employee of Trails of Hoffman, Ltd. Gregory Gloch: von Einem's young apprentice and a skilled weapons designer. Gloch is "proleptic", and has become displaced in time. Al Dosker: Lies, Incorporated's "ace pilot". Dosker is physically described as a "small and shrewd-looking" African-American. Publishing history This particular book has an unusual publishing history compared to other novels by Dick. The story originally appeared in Fantastic Magazine in 1964. The story rights were then bought by Ace Books but Dick's subsequent revisions to bring the manuscript up to novel-length were rejected and the original story was published in 1966. Its first novel publication was as one half of Ace Double G-602, bound dos-à-dos with The Mind Monsters by Howard L. Cory. In 1983, the expanded 80,000-word story was published by Berkley Books. Dick had been revising the material to include his original 1965 expansions (some pages of the 1965 manuscript were missing, leading to continuity problems), before he died in March 1982, leaving the revision incomplete. The original story was published, with Dick's revisions, in 1984 as Lies, Inc. The missing pages were found and published in 1985 in the Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter #8. In 2004 a new edition of Lies, Inc was published which included the found pages. Reception Dave Langford reviewed Lies Inc. for White Dwarf #56, and stated that "I'm not sure Lies, Inc's maze of nightmares does in fact make sense in objective plot terms: it's a marvellously hallucinatory experience, though, far better than the original Unteleported Man." Reviews Review by C. J. Henderson [as by Chris Henderson] (1983) in Dragon Magazine, November 1983 Review by Frank Catalano (1984) in Amazing Science Fiction,