The novel “The Crack in Space” by Philip K. Dick was published for the first time in 1966.

The discovery of a portal that opens a route to another planet that, at least in appearance, is identical to the Earth has political ramifications. The presidential election is coming, and Jim Briskin wants to become the first Black president in an election campaign that is becoming more out of the ordinary than ever.

Seventy million people, most of them non-white, have entered cryogenic sleep waiting for a job to become available for them. The other Earth could become a new frontier much more attractive than the colonies on Mars to be opened for colonization by the sleepers, who could finally wake up.