Great and insightful review! I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I also really enjoyed some of his latter-day novels such as VALIS and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, as well as the posthumously published Radio Free Albemuth.
I dived into science fiction as a kid and then dropped it for detective and crime fiction, along with every volume marked "classic." After college, I returned and consumed PKD, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. LeGuin, and J.G. Ballard. This quartet is my favorite because they turned SF inward. Also, their writing was distinctive, each having different styles and content. Later writers followed their lead: Joe Haledman (The Forever War), Robert Scheckley (short stories), Christopher Priest (The Prestige), and Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). Hard science fiction, more concerned with technology or people like Robert Heinlein, bore me, though there are good writers in that department. My favorite PKD novels are DADES, The Man in the High Castle, Martian Time Slip, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and Time Out of Joint. Also try PKD's realistic novels. He could only get one published in his lifetime Confessions of a Crap Artist, which is great. Try Humpty Dumpty in Oakland and In Milton Lumkey Territory. These novels are full of odd ball but decent protagonists trying to get by in post WW II California.
We have similar taste with science fiction I think. Thanks for the insightful comment as always! I'm definitely going to read and review the PKD books you mentioned. I'll have to check out the other authors as well.
Great review! I'm a huge Dickhead, lol 😅. Love Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? My personal favorite Dick book is probably The Man in the High Castle, but I think The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is probably his best work; you give that one a try if you liked this one. 🙂
Thank you! I'm going to try to find The Man in the High Castle at my used bookstore. Transmigration of Timothy Archer was mentioned too so I'll have to check it out!
Great and insightful review! I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I also really enjoyed some of his latter-day novels such as VALIS and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, as well as the posthumously published Radio Free Albemuth.
Thanks for the comment! Looking forward to reading more PKD.
I dived into science fiction as a kid and then dropped it for detective and crime fiction, along with every volume marked "classic."
After college, I returned and consumed PKD, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. LeGuin, and J.G. Ballard. This quartet is my favorite because they turned SF inward. Also, their writing was distinctive, each having different styles and content.
Later writers followed their lead: Joe Haledman (The Forever War), Robert Scheckley (short stories), Christopher Priest (The Prestige), and Stanislaw Lem (Solaris).
Hard science fiction, more concerned with technology or people like Robert Heinlein, bore me, though there are good writers in that department.
My favorite PKD novels are DADES, The Man in the High Castle, Martian Time Slip, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and Time Out of Joint.
Also try PKD's realistic novels. He could only get one published in his lifetime Confessions of a Crap Artist, which is great. Try Humpty Dumpty in Oakland and In Milton Lumkey Territory.
These novels are full of odd ball but decent protagonists trying to get by in post WW II California.
We have similar taste with science fiction I think. Thanks for the insightful comment as always! I'm definitely going to read and review the PKD books you mentioned. I'll have to check out the other authors as well.
Great review! I'm a huge Dickhead, lol 😅. Love Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? My personal favorite Dick book is probably The Man in the High Castle, but I think The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is probably his best work; you give that one a try if you liked this one. 🙂
Thank you! I'm going to try to find The Man in the High Castle at my used bookstore. Transmigration of Timothy Archer was mentioned too so I'll have to check it out!
Finally someone took the time to read, understand and appreciate this masterpiece.
Thanks for the comment! Took me a second read nearly ten years later to realize it is a masterpiece.