Phillip K. Dick by MisterSolidus

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Phillip K. Dick

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Monday, June 11, 2007 7:28 PM

I just finished reading "A Scanner Darkly". I saw the movie a couple months ago. Both are great, but I like the book better out of the two.

Has anyone else read any of PKD's work(s)? Recommendations?

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Monday, June 11, 2007 7:54 PM

HUGHFF

Good God yes.

An obvious starter is
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
which was also made into a brilliant movie - Blade Runner. Again, despite how very very good the film is, I prefer the book.

Dick wrote memorable books with amazing titles including:
Flow my Tears the Policeman Said
and
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

The rather more prosaically named
Martian Time Slip
has one of the best opening lines in science fiction.

Finally, he won a number of awards, including a Hugo, for
The Man in the High Castle,
an alternate history.

Go here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-3759393-5731019?url=search-al
ias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=philip+K+Dick&Go.x=14&Go.y=10
Spend!

On this http://www.amazon.com/PenUltimate-Philip-Dick-List-Titles/lm/R1R7OK31G
0A1WI/ref=cm_lmt_srch_f_3_rsrsrs0/103-3759393-5731019 list, I have read 31 of the 40 books listed. The only one I don't really recommend is Deus Irae, which was a project he blocked on and was eventually finished by Roger Zelazny. I think it's the weakest thing I've read by either writer, ironically.

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www.nbhs.school.nz - my work

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:52 AM

MISTERSOLIDUS

I've been wanting to check out "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" for awhile now, same with "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said". Next time I get to a bookstore I'm planning to look for them.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:09 PM

SLOWHAND

I've got a collection of his stuff. The new Nick Cage movie, "Next", is based on the PKD story "The Golden Boy". The movie is very different than the book, but both are good, in my opinion.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:01 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

I discovered PKD when I picked up The Philip K. Dick Reader at Barnes & Noble, and started reading the fourth story, "The Golden Man".
Saw that the protagonist's name was Cris Johnson (My name's Chris Johnston), and ran to the cash register!

I've now got almost all the short story collections, and a few of the novels:

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
• The Man in the High Castle
• The Game-Players of Titan
• The World Jones Made
• Radio Free Albemuth
• The Cosmic Puppets
• Time Out of Joint
• VALIS

I like the short stories the best, because a) there are so many of them, b) they're so different from each other, and c) like all PKD, they're somewhat unsettling, to say the least, and I don't like to hang around in each universe for longer than I have to.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:52 AM

CAUSAL

Quote:
Originally posted by hughff:
The rather more prosaically named
Martian Time Slip
has one of the best opening lines in science fiction.

Well--what is it?

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