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>>25357805fantastic story but terrible style. He always ends up fucking up the incredible world he has created and unfortunately you end up being used to it.Still the best SF writer despite not being the most famous (he wrote in 1952, i'ts incredible how far forward his thinking was).I've been reading a collection of all his short stories and it's very interesting. The man wrote one every week for 50 dollars yet still managed to write stuff that's unique.
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>>25357805i read a scanner darkly earlier this year and just fell in love with it. you hear about authors being ahead of their time a lot but imo pkd really epitomized that more than anyone else--the whole theme of resistance movements being littered with feds, holoscanners being his version of Alexas, criminalized drugs being pushed by the government. he gets lumped in as sci fi but i didn't see much sci fi there desu.is that by far his best book? what should i read by him next?
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>>25357805only as audiobooks. His stuff is very peculiarly suited for them I've found, perhaps it's all the dialogue and the sparse colloquial style
I've never read him, but does anyone have a recommendation for a book that specifically deals with memory & nostalgia? I realize most of his books deal with the nature of memory to some degree, but which would be the best to start with if I want something about the role of memory & nostalgia in the construction of our "self"?
>>25357805Just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and enjoyed it as much as the filmHad more of an apocalyptic tone with more of a focus on faith and altered states, as is to be expected with knowing about PKD's own life
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>>25357805The only book I've read of his is Three Stigmata and I can't say I enjoyed it. I can't really describe it as anything other than just 'bland'.
>>25359423"We Can Build You" and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said." are both very interesting in that regard. Especially Flow my Tears.
>>25357805Most PKD opening line of all time>The apertyx-shaped building, so familiar to him, gave off its usual smoky gray light as EricSweetscent collapsed his wheel and managed to park in the tiny stall allocated him.
>>25357805his exegesis should be required reading for schizobabblers
>>25357805When you finish bladerunner the replicant asks you to lick the tip.
>>25359366https://pastebin.com/MiMMCCN6He didn't even see much of a difference between fantasy and sci-fi. He considered ASD to have been his first masterpiece:https://philipdick.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/A%20SCANNER%20DARKLY.HTMMuch of his stories are character-centric and how they perceive the outer world. One of his books, Clans of the Alphane Moon, includes small towns/living areas as part of a colony on one of the other planet's moons, but it could have taken place in some fantasy secluded world. Each area has its own mental illness groupings so there's a town for the depressives, the bipolars, the schizophrenics, etc.There's another novel where god's body is found in space but it's barely a sidenote to the overall story lol
>>25359654Faggot. That one's probably his most psychedelic.
>>25358123>i'ts incredible how far forward his thinking was).I agree. I recall reading one of his stories and it basically being the same plot premise as Sword Art Online of people trapped in a video game.Then being surprised that it was written before video games were invented
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Honestly not really. Interesting concepts but boring execution.
he's how I found out I didn't like SF
>>25360168>>25360170Tasteless proles.
Last I read was VALIS, it was schizophrenic and also interesting.
>>25362081Normally I love PKD, but VALIS gave me deeply unsettled vibes.
>>25357805I use it quite often (but always with caution)
