The story, begins with the protagonist realizing that he's the victim of subliminal dreams implantation carried out by the police-state. In the dreams, he's a rat, competing with other rats for pieces of days old cheeseburger, or pieces of string.
Now who else could have written this, but PKD.
Despite the melancholy beginning, the plot is quite impressive. Set a few decades in the future, it tells the story of an heir of interstellar ferries, trying to compete with the newly harnessed teleportation industry. A three-way deadlock between the police(Lies, Inc), the UN and the teleportation company(THL for Trails of Hoffman Ltd., i think) forms the background.
Rachmael Von Applebaum, the heir, is convinced there's something fishy about the whole teleportation setup. the offered scientific explanation for one-way(outward bound) teleportation does not convince him. and perhaps driven by inability to compete with the much cheaper and faster teleportation and his impending bankruptcy, he decides to visit the fomalhaut system to verify the facts for himself.
PKD meanders the story through several twists and turns, making it hard for Rachmael(and us readers) to distinguish between reality and hallucinations.
Its definitely a good read, and I suggest you do read it. the first half was published earlier as "The unteleported man". Its not tough to imagine that that would have made an excellent book too.
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