Editing Now Wait for Last Year (section)

{{Short description|1966 novel by Philip K. Dick}}
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| name          = Now Wait for Last Year
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| image         = NowWaitForLastYear(1stEd).jpg
| caption       = Cover of first edition (hardcover)
| author        = [[Philip K. Dick]]
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| genre         = [[Science fiction]] 
| publisher     = [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
| release_date  = 1966
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| media_type    = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages         = 214 
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'''''Now Wait for Last Year''''' is a 1966 [[science fiction]] novel by American writer [[Philip K. Dick]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 November 1990 |title=The Definitive Philip K. Dick |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/578852850/?terms=%22Now%20Wait%20for%20Last%20Year%22&match=1 |access-date=17 February 2024 |work=[[LA Weekly]] |pages=23 |via=[[newspapers.com]]}}</ref> It is set in 2055, when Earth is caught between two galactic powers in an interstellar conflict. Dr. Eric Sweetscent and his wife Kathy get addicted to a powerful drug that appears to cause time travel. The doctor's patient is the world leader, UN Secretary General. Of the twenty-eight novels Dick published in the 1960s and 1970s, this novel is one of the five chosen to represent this period of his career in [[Library of America#Table row 183|The Library of America series]], Volume Two.