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What’s your favorite Philip K Dick novel besides a Valis, Ubik, Or The Man in the High Castle?

I like A Scanner Darkly and I recently finished Time Out of Joint which was quite good

>> No.19568080

>>19567696
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is my favorite. The ending is brilliant.

>> No.19568099

>>19567696
A Maze of Death and Flow My Tears are both great
>>19568080
I should be rereading that one, it's been years

>> No.19568292

>>19567696
Martian Time-Slip and The Game-Players of Titan. Don't hear much about Game-Players of Titan. It may have made a bigger impression on me because it was the 2nd PKD I read, and the first that showed me the 60s PKD style (the 1st I read was A Scanner Darkly).

>> No.19568375

>>19567696

Simulacra and Maze of Death

>> No.19568379

>>19567696
Shouldn't this question go to /sffg/? Or is that dead?

>> No.19568385

>>19567696
Flow my tears the police man said. It really was something else, especially today.

The man predicted the future like Haldeman.

>> No.19568387

>>19568379
/sffg/ is dead, anon. Expect more genre fiction threads.

>> No.19568411

It's a shame my memory is so bad because other than VALIS and Scanner I can barely remember the plots of his books. Lies Inc. was one big trip when some guy on the moon got shot by an acid dart...or something. Not to detail but I just finish S Craig Zahler's Corpus Chrome and I highly recommend it to any PKD fans - it's pulpy, pretty out there, and a bit philosophical. I sometimes think PKD's prose is impenetrable

>> No.19568763

>>19568099
>>19568375
I thought A Maze Of Death was fine but not great

>> No.19568798

>>19567696
Flow my Tears the Policeman said
Doctor Bloodmoney

>> No.19568809

One would almost come to the assumption that the man was high on crackcocaine, given how much paranioa there is in his stories.

>> No.19568829

i really loved martian time-slip. just loads of super cool ideas in one book

>> No.19568902

>>19567696
The transmogrification of Timothy archer.

>> No.19568947 [DELETED] 

Roberto Bolaño on PKD:
>Dick was a schizophrenic. Dick was a paranoiac. Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the 20th century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage. Dick talks to us, in The Man in the High Castle, in what would become his trademark way, about how mutable reality can be and therefore how mutable history can be. Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream. Dick writes, at times, like a prisoner, because ethically and aesthetically he really is a prisoner. Dick is the one who, in Ubik, comes closest to capturing the human consciousness or fragments of consciousness in the context of their setting; the correspondence between what he tells and the structure of what’s told is more brilliant than similar experiments conducted by Pynchon or DeLillo.

>> No.19569347

>>19568763
Maze of Death triggered a solipsistic phase in me hard, at one point it fucked with me so good I physically dropped the book and couldn’t return to it for days out of sheer panic and the encroaching dread of schizophrenia.

>> No.19569436

>>19568292
This is the first time I've seen someone else mention Game Players. It was my first Dick but it remains my favorite, though I havent reread it.
Second favorite is Transmigration of Timothy Archer which I think is his magnum opus.