What's his best short story?
>>25059914The one where he was a worthless crackhead who churned out scifi sloppa at a breakneck pact to feed his addictions and then died at a young age due to being a lifelong junkie. Oh wait that was just his life. Faith of our Fathers I guess.
>>25059914The Hanging Strangerhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41562
>>25059921Why was it called "Faith of Our Fathers"? Based on the title I thought it would be some critique of American jingoism or smth but instead it's about some commies in East Asia.
>>25059914ZOOB OF ENDKO
>>25059914the one with the really handsome guy made out of gold who is so autistic he cannot communicate but because of his autism can see every single outcome that he could do like a kind of precognition so he is effectively invincible and most of his plans for escaping are being alone in a room with random women who cannot control their lust and want to have sex with him because he is so handsome. PKD really red pills the reader on how superficial women are with that story.
The one where the space hamsters mutate into omniscient deities.
>Philip Dick>writes short stories
>>25060288???
Boomp
>>25060028When will he be added to Marvel?Golden Man is the best of the X-Men.
>>25059914>What's his best short story?The third kind.>>25060277That's >>>/tg/ not PKD
Androids dream is probably the only one I thought was good, the end with the frog is great. Too great though, the whole novel sort of doesn't deserve that ending.
>>25060294Don't want a Short Dick man
>>25062339LOL good 'un.
Dang he a daddy
>>25059927Yeah but the dude trips out and meets god at that party. The ending is pretty kino.
>>25059914The Golden Man is fun, I only read it because I watched the Nic Cage movie but it's a great concept that's told well
>>25062574>surprise: God is le evilWho comes up with this shit?
>>25062751Geniuses do.
>>25062751It answers the "question of evil" and explains Jesus being good, and being tortured to death.Turns out the first Christians came up with this. The heretics call it gnosticism
>>25063079Makes sense since PKD was a gnostic.
>>25059914I read one story where some tinkerer with a horse-cart is transported to the future and is able to fix complicated computer devices with his 19th century tools.It was terrible. Does he not get good until he went full on degenerate and started banging runaway dope fiend girls and fried his brains with amphetamines and meth?
>>25063104he wrote one small story every 4-5 days to keep the lights on (at 50 usd per story, back in the 50s)so he didn't really get the time to flesh them outMy favorite short story of his was the one about a tribe of humans far after into the future in a world that has been devastated by nuclear war. They send a member of the community to a god in a temple to ask him the most difficult questions they could think about (they do so once a year). The guy arrives in the temple and ask his questions, gets answers and has to sacrifice himself to "pay" for the answer, jumping in a vat of acid that converts his body into energy for the ancient war computer.
>>25061898It's from The Infinites, you philisitine board-hopper newfag.
>>25059914The Sheep-Pig
>>25059990The thought, theoretical as it was, chilled him as he involuntarily, without the possibility of evasion, listened to the curious mixture of nonsense and—meaning. Of the highest order.“. . . I think, though, I see why Zoobko lards, butters, marginates and otherwise fattens up the word ‘spore’ into the rather sinister male spore slogan. Their house brochure in Move-E 3-D kul-R is directed (heh-heh) at women consumers, to fumble lewdly a metaphor, ahem, no offense meant (gak). More fully articulated, it would read, ‘The male spore, my dears, is as we well know tireless in its half-crazed struggle—against all sanity and moral restraint— to reach the female egg. That’s the way men are. Right? We all realize it. Give a male (sic) spore half an inch and he’ll take seventy-two-and-a-sixth miles. BE PREPARED! ALWAYS READY! A HUGE, SLIMY, SLANT-EYED YELLOW-SKINNED MALE SPORE MAY BE WATCHING YOU THIS VERY MINUTE! And, considering his almost demonic ability to wiggle for miles upon miles, you may at this moment be in dire, severe danger! To quote Dry-den: ‘The trumpet’s loud clamor doth call us to arms,’ etc. (And don’t forget, ladies, the handsome prize awarded yearly by Zoobko Products, Incorporated for the greatest number of dead male (sic) spores mailed (pun) to our Callisto factory in an old Irish linen pillow case, attesting to (one) your tenacity in balking the evil damned things and (two) the fact that you’re buying our lather-like goo in one-hundred-pound squirt cans. Also remember: if you are unable to adequately prepare yourself with a generous, expensive portion of Zoobko patented goo in the proper place, ahem, in advance of marital lawful pawing, then merely squirt the spray can with nozzle directed directly into the grimacing fungiform’s ugly face as it hovers six feet high in the air above you. Best range—”“Best range,” Gregory Gloch said aloud, against the din of the obsessive noise in his ears, “approximately two inches.”“—‘two inches,’ ” the tinny, mechanical racket reeled off, accompanying him, “ ‘from his eyes. Zoobko’s patented goo is not only—’ ”“—‘a top-drawer killer of male spores,’ ” Gloch murmured, “ ‘but it also blasts the tear-ducts out of existence. Too bad, fella.’ ” End brochure, he thought. End monolog. End sex. End of Zoobko, or zoob of Endko. Is this an ad or a contemplation of a squandered life? Check one. I know this discourse, he thought. By heart. Why? How? It’s as if, he thought, I said it; as if it’s happening inside my brain—not coming to me from the outside. What does this mean? I have to know."
Best thread on the catalogue right now.
>>25059921I don't like PKD but him being a junkie doesn't effect my relationship with his work. Didn't Dostoevsky churn shit out for gambling money?
>>25059914the one where the test tube baby super chad tv star gets pulled into another reality where nobody knows who he is
The Father Thing really stuck with me when I first read it as a child. It is a good story>>25067190That's a whole book. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
>>25059914The Electric Ant is a cool concept and probably the best thing to understand his vision of the world. And it's really short.Second Variety is nothing mind boggling, but it's fun as fuck.
>>25067720The Father-Thing is good but rather sad and incomprehensible.
>>25067161he wasn't a junkie, he was just heavily medicatedhis twin sister died next to him when he was 3 month olds and it fucked him up for life(couldn't swallow in public, invented other identities, hallucinated siblings...)
>>25068397He was a bonafide tweaker bro
Anyone read the one about the guy who's sent back in time to kill a peace-preaching preacher and it turns out it was him all along?
>>25068446What's the name
>>25068450The Skull. It's an early one.
He knew things he shouldn't have. Was that the point of VALIS? Next short story of his I'm gonna read is gonna be Second Variety by the way. Don't think I've ever read that one before.
>>25066251Is this AI's idea of a PKD story?
>>25068397Like he has any memories from when he was three months old
>>25068461They were unlocked when he inadvertently smoked some rayon carpet fibers that were stuck to a meth shard he found under his couch.
>>25068458no. it's from The Unteleported Man
>>25070303Yeah, I told you – or that other anon – it was nonsense.
>>25068732PKD didn't do meth. He did SPEED.
>>25070314I've hung out with a few tweakers, and they all talk like pkd writes.
>>25070320They're also all wiggers, incidentally. If PKD were alive today he'd be listening to wigger rap and shitty deathcore.
I read The Skull last night. Pretty good. I'll read Second Variety next.
I read Eye In The Sky because the premise sounded interesting.It was kinda shit. I kinda wanna read Valis, from what I heard, it sounds like it might be good.
>>25070315Isn't that the same thing? From what I know, speed is like old fashioned meth and was made with some different ingredient and was a lot better quality. And I'm not sure if you can smoke speed like you can with methI could be wrong, idk, I don't do drugs
>>25070384Speed = amphetamine Meth = methamphetamine Different chemicals. I don't think meth was around until the 80s or 90s, to serve as a cheap alternative to crack.This is what Gemini had to say about your query.
Yeah, PKD was not doing meth lol. Nor was he doing crack, or even cocaine I don't think.
>>25070325He was a big classical fan IIRC.
>>25070382VALIS made me feel sick at times. I might read A Maze of Death in the near future though, since it's in the same Library of America collection as VALIS (the collection I own).
>>25070423>VALIS made me feel sick at times. Why did it make you feel sick?
>>25070475It's creepy and unsettling in an existential way.
>>25070384speed is just adderall lmao
>>25070508And Adderall is meth.
>>25070503Sounds pretty great, desu
>>25070521The part where it starts to grind down and focus on the film is where it starts to get uncomfortable. A lot of the book is philosophical rambling too. There are times when the plot just grinds to a halt in order to make a point.
He woulda been in the Epstein files if he were alive today.
>>25070578He did sleep with teenaged runaways who he let crash at his house.
"The Second Variety". Its movie adaptation was fine too.
>>25070423>A Maze of DeathI don't understand why it's so popular. It's frankly minor. Now Wait For Last Year is much better.
Dr. Bloodmoney, now that's an underrated one.
>>25059921>connoisseur of substances.>crack head.I hope someone put digitalis enough to cause you death from the amount of non semites you killed from mk ultra/naomi complications.
>>25062336>Androids dream is probably the only one I thought was good, the end with the frog is great.I HATE how much the movie took out and how it's jerked off by normgroids. If that movie was enough to impress them, the book would induce heart attacks. I'm still salty about the fake police station being cut out. Yeah, Deckard's boss and his friends just found out about it off screen and took care of it. One of the best mind fucks just snipped out.
>>25071322I say that Rachel and Pris were the same android.
>>25071206Incoherent post.
>>25059914Days of Perky Pat
>>25070394Methamphetamine was discovered in 1893. Versions of it were prescribed or sold as Benzedrine and Methedrine as stimulants, of course, but also as "diet pills". Popularly supplied to soldiers, notably during WW2. When found addictive, it became more controlled and, of course, the illegal market grew.
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>>25070578he was neither rich or influential enough
