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Summary

In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson states that "In Milton Lumky Territory...is probably the 
best of Dick's realist novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist," and calls it a "bitter indictment of the 
effects of capitalism." Dick, on the other hand, says in his foreword, "This is actually a very funny book, and a 
good one, too." 
Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western United States and a psychic terrain: the world and worldview 
of the traveling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with some extraordinary long-distance 
driving sequences in which our hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco, to Reno, to 
Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under 
the spell of an attractive older woman (who used to be his school teacher) and Milton Lumky, a middle-aged 
paper salesman whose territory is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink into the whirlpool 
of Bruce's immature personal obsessions and misperceptions.

Publishing date: 2026-02-12; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 1985. Copyright Statment: —

• Contemporary Fiction
• Science Fiction & Fantasy