OFF: Philip Dick

[Drill]

On 6/30/05, Doug Pearson <jasret at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 05:31:40 -0400, Drill <drill.0010.1011.1100 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> >Second Variety- wow. Then I read a "vol. 5 (Eye of the Sibyl?)" short
> >story book, then Radio Free Albemuth, and a biography of him, then
> >Counterclock world, all in what 3 months. What next? PKD has my vote
> >for any pantheon now. Comes up everywhere too, and I am receiving
> >signals from the Valis satellite nightly. About that time now actually
> >it's 2:30AM in california.
>
> Yeah, I'm a big fan of PKD, and his drug-addled dystopian sci-fi mind-
> blowers strike me as something that Hawkwind always should've been
> thematically closer to (although they've always been good at channelling
> the JG Ballard vibe, especially with Bob up front).

I read High Rise, Concrete Jungle, Terminal Beach, and saw some kind
of interestingly formatted graphical collection type book I couldn't
focus on. Can't easily read comic books either. Oh and a story about a
future where clocks have been outlawed. Moorcock really championed the
guy when he edited new worlds, so I read. WHERE DOES ONE FIND ISSUES
OF NEW WORLDS? Why are they not scanned and available digitally at
varying degrees of resolution and in text mapped PDF format? There
should be a worldwide fax machine transmission network to distribute
all science fiction in a simillar way. All science fiction minus that
from elronds cupboard.




>
> I would consider his *absolutely essential* books to be:
> Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
> Man In The High Castle
> A Scanner Darkly
> Ubik
> Flow My Tears the Policeman Said
>
> Among his earlier works, Eye In The Sky and Time Out Of Joint are two of
> my favorites.  But I've enjoyed everything I've read by him, even though
> (technically) he's not a "great writer" (similar to the way that,
> technically, only a very few members of Hawkwind have been "great
> musicians").
>
> 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' is the name of the short story
> that 'Total Recall' was based on.  I actually haven't read any of his
> short stories, but most of the people I know who have recommend his novels
> more highly.
>
> I am definitely looking forward to the upcoming 'Scanner Darkly' movie
> (which has a great premise: the lead character is an undercover narc who
> is assigned to track the drug dealer who is his cover identity, i.e.
> himself - drug-induced schizophrenia and other sorts of hilarity ensue),
> although I could imagine it being butchered pretty badly.
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com
>


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