/lit/ - Literature

>>9116366
There's a lot of good books, if you already li,e PKD, before the likes of Valis and his later period.

Look for a volume of his short stories. His mid 50's/60's period was strongest here. The Electric Ant could be the best thing he wrote.

I'd like a new book of SF short stories by a single author to add to dip into between reading novels. I like Philip K Dick, Theodore Sturgeon, Asimov, Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury. I don't like Harlan Ellison, Arthur C Clarke or much hard SF.

>>8682804
The English translation by Bormashenko is the newer one. It's a good book that gets its hooks into you, because of the oblique way the story is told.

From what I gather, Bormashenko's translation was a hobby, a labor of love, that got picked up by the publishers.

However, the way Adam Curtis talks about Roadside Picnic as emblematic of the way governments deceive us through illusory and contradictory realities is tenuous. It is a minor subtext of the novel at most, gained by a highly active and selective reading - whereas it is an overt preoccupation of any given Philip K Dick novel.