Christopher O'Riley just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s novel Vulcan’s Hammer, and early action/sci-fi book about the early version of Skynet, contemporaneous struggles by the oppressed hopefully successful without the need for Arnold Schwartzenegger. a really great thrill-ride PKD is the best.
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s We Can Build You. a novel about mental health revolving around a progressively delusional March/September romance complete with a Woody Allen-esque neurotic narrator, co-owner of a keyboard instrument company that gets involved with fully-functional simulacra of Abraham Lincoln, et al. the art is in the dialogue. one of PKD’s …
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s novella, The Cosmic Puppets. starts out as a Twilight zone episode, a man revisiting an old town and recognizing none of it as the place he grew up, this has elements of Lovecraftian mythology, but with a fantasy/horror canvas that would only find true depth and saturated vision in …
just finished Philip K. Dick’s novel of time-travel, euthanasia, history and conscience, Dr. Futurity. as early as this is in the PKD ouevre, you hear the beginnings of his philosophical bent in this one. elegantly cinematic in its poetry, particularly at the beginning. PKD is the best.