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boykster:
If you're into philisophical mind  :censored: scifi...you MUST read some PKD.  He practically invented the genre.  Some of my faves are Clans of the Alphane Moon, Counterclock World, Dr. Bloodmoney, A Scanner Darkly, and of course The Man in teh High Castle.  Do Androids Dream.... is good, but not indicitive of his best work.  If you're really into wierd stuff, read the Valis books....part fiction, part psychotic auto-biographical.  Really strange, but insightful stuff.  Not sure what it is insightful to -> the future, mankind, the innerworkings of a madman? but still....

Much of his BEST work was in shorts...there are literally dozens, if not hundreds of PKD shorts floating around.  Many of the movies made from his work (Total Recall, Minority Report, etc) are based on shorts...usually pretty poorly executed, but based on his ideas nonetheless.

I'll also assume you've read Gibson, no?  Truly a pioneer in the virtual worlds ideas, et al.

DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 23, 2007, 12:58:05 pm ---
Goofy wasn't fun to me.


--- End quote ---

It appears that fun isn't even fun to you.

Boykster, you deserve a wallop of -fu :bat 

I'd put it to a vote, but DK would go crackers in 5....4....3....2.... and McFly would show up just to whine about it

Just goes to show you can't trust a trouser-wearing mandal fan ;)

shorthair:
depends, drew.

boyk: um, I'm not sure what I'm into, anymore. I think Dick is sort of in the same camp as Alfred Bester (read some of one of his books and it was wacky but the story just didn't grab me) and perhaps Harlan Ellison (whom I've read 'I have no mouth...' and at the time was into the fact that it came out in '67 and even today would be considered X-rated, but it was really just a horror story), and will think about it.

Of course I've read Gibson; he is, or at least was, the man. Loved or liked all his stuff up till PATTERN RECOGNITION (which just didn't grab me, but I kinda shy away from current time literature). Seems he's taken a bit of a hiatus from writing, but finally has his own site and is even active on his forum.

boykster:
I don't think I'd put PKD in the same camp with any other authors IMHO...his stuff is really different.  His stories are less about technology and space or the future, and are entirely about the inner workings of the mind...of course the stories tend to play out in sci fi type settings and/or futuristic.

Anywho, a good one to pick up is Clans of the Alphane moon...that's the first one of his books I read and I was hooked.

Drew:  :blah: :blah: :blah: :blah:  go find a garbage truck to drive...I'm trying to communicate with the alien rather than poke him with a stick and call him teh ghey!

Jouster:
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Jouster

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