Christopher O'Riley just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s first published sci-fi thriller, Solar Lottery an ultra-impoverished society governed by the spin of a bottle. probably more distinguished by its thriller pace and the minutiae of its technical imagination than by PKD’s usual philosophic flights; still an integral and exciting part of the canon. PKD is the best.
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s novel, The World Jones Made. a strictly Relativist (!) society meets a man with absolute foreknowledge. the most just alien invasion and denouement and the most compelling mode of planetary colonization i’ve read. PKD is the best.
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s The Crack in Space, an inter-dimensional thriller presciently replete with our first African-American Presidential Candidate, albeit belatedly circa 2080, and his nemeses the Koch Bros, as Siamese-twin megalomaniacs joined at the head. PKD is the best.
Just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s Lies, Inc., revised and amended late in his life from a novella from the 60’s, The Unteleported Man. In my experience of PKD, this counts as the most wonderfully convoluted and masterfully fugal of his books, with more delusions and realities than any of his other novels. Truly jaw-dropping …