quips
Philip K. Dick ~ Confessions of a Crap Artist
just finished reading one of Philip K. Dick’s rare non-sci-fi novels, Confessions of a Crap Artist. a domestic drama of a crackpot family and their friends in 50’s Marin, told by a quartet of narrators (a device more often used by the various contemporary overrated New Yorker fiction writers, but here used much more deftly …
Philip K. Dick ~ Vulcan’s Hammer
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.
Philip K. Dick ~ We Can Build You
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 …
Philip K. Dick ~ The Cosmic Puppets
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 …