Philip K. Dick ~ Our Friends From Frolix 8
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s Our Friends From Frolix 8. sedition, surveillance, evolution, invasion, jealousy, paranoia. all elements of this wonderful late-period PKD novel. PKD is the best.
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…
Philip K. Dick ~ Dr. Futurity
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.
Philip K. Dick ~ Solar Lottery
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.
Philip K. Dick ~ The World Jones Made
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.
Mark Z. Danielewski ~ Only Revolutions
Just finished principal composition (version 2.0) for all 90 chapters of Mark Z. Danielewski’s prose poem/eBook, Only Revolutions.
Philip K. Dick ~ The Crack in Space
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.
Philip K. Dick ~ Galactic Pot-Healer
just finished reading Philip K. Dick’s Galactic Pot-Healer, a parable with the best of Faust, the Whale archetype, Faith and Le Cathedrale engloutie all expertly woven. PKD is the best
Philip K. Dick ~ Lies, Inc.
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…