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I just finished this. Where should I move on from here? Also PKD general I guess.

>> No.5104733

Damn that's a cool book.

That was my first PKD, OP; I would just read whatever sounds interesting or comes recommended in roughly chronological order.

>> No.5104738

>>5104716
You want more PKD?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is next for the casual reader.

You want more alternate history? Anything by Harry Turtledove.

>> No.5104754

>>5104738
>You want more alternate history? Anything by Harry Turtledove.
No.

No no no no no no no.

Lands of Red and Gold by Jared
The Whale has Wings
Agent Lavender
Thaxted

>> No.5104794

>>5104716
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>> No.5104812

>>5104716
motherfucking Three Stigmata, seriously. Of course Androids and Flow my tears are classic Dick, but Three Stigmata is best mindfuck.

>> No.5104823

>Where should I move on from here?
For more PKD?
Don't. Its his one good book. Dick was mentally disturbed, on drugs, and got low pay requiring to churn out quantities of material that he could never focus on improving.
For more SF?
Any of the New Wave authors and titles of the era will be good.
For literate alternate history?
Pavane by Keith Roberts.

>> No.5104830

>>5104738
Sheep is hackwork known now only for the film
Turtledove is a hack, he keeps churning out one civil war/ww2 mega-series after another

>> No.5104834

>>5104823
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/15/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.philipkdick
this explains better than I can whats wrong with PKD

>> No.5104842

>>5104834
fag

>> No.5104843

time to man up and read the exegsis, op.

>> No.5105164

A Scanner Darkly is his best book

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>>5104812 This. And afterwards Ubik & >>5104794
From all the novels I read by PKD The Man In The High Castle was my least favourite one.

>> No.5106556

>>5104716
Clans of the Alphane Moon or Valis.

>> No.5108535

Honestly, everything buy PKD is fantastic. Even his "lesser" stuff is better than a lot of Sci-Fi.

>> No.5108569

>>5104834
It's not really a compelling article. His way of writing off K. Dick, towardt the end, by comparing him to Hubbard, as if Dick had really no ground in reality is a bit disgraceful. Dick is more complex than that, there's certainly as much of the con artist as of the mystic in him. I can agree with some of his criticism, though.

>> No.5108591

>>5105164
this and VALIS

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>>5104830

How dare you call that hackwork.

I loved the word kipple.

I enjoyed the migration aspect.

I loved the value he gave life and the strange practices he gave society.

It was a cool book. PKD does cool shit.

But I also love Blade Runner.

>> No.5109508

PKD wrote a lot, and much of it was churned out in a hurried sketchy way, weighing ideas and twists over characters. Thus, from the outside, much of his work can seem flat and 'hackish'.

There are plenty of exceptions to this though- Scanner Darkly and VALIS have been mentioned. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is up there as well.

There are probably more gems- I've only read about half his books. He wrote a lot of 'mainstream' novels, that were only published after his death. See http://www.gnosis.org/pkd.FAQ.bio.html (scroll down to bibliography).

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5109519

Oh!

They're quick reads, but Minority Reoprt and Total Recall!

PKD had an awesome method of providing a full, interesting idea quickly and simply.

>> No.5109987

>>5109206
lol so much dreck kipple on this thread