Christopher O'Riley just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s The Zap Gun, a novel of psionic fake-weapons designers. prescient comic books, a Kabuki Cold War. also, a pretty astonishing presage of addictive video games and coincidentally the McGuffin that figures at the center of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. one of PKD’s most mind-blowing satires.
in my continuing PKDOCD, just finished reading one of Philip K. Dick’s most important early novels, The Man Who Japed: a post-nuke society whose moral tenets are heavily straitened, like a post-modern Dutch Reformed Church, an ad-man/propagandist gets in touch with his seditious subconscious. one of the best and most horrifying climaxes in PKD, too. …
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s Counter Clock World, apropos the impending reverse of the sun’s polarity, PKD plunges us into a world where time itself has reversed its course, employing a psionic vitarium owner, one who haunts the graveyards waiting for the voices of the newly reborn to call for their own exhumation. it …
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s novel (this is fast becoming my own personal obsessive Summer of Dick, introduced by my months-ago traversal of his Exegesis, the complete Library of America collection of a baker’s dozen of his novels, and now continuing, happily, through a bunch more of the novels i’d not read previously) The …