The Works of Philip K. Dick

[monsterzero]

The man who brought hardcore philosophy and wonderment to the scifi realm. The man who, while neglected in his time, has had a fraction of his interesting work brought into movie form that somehow only captures an ounce of his brilliance.

Okay, sometimes he's confusing, but we still love him.

Come on, I can't be the only one who knows what VALIS means, am I?

[tydomin]

You're certainly not alone in your admiration of the man. I had the honor of interviewing him, twice, shortly before his untimely demise, and those conversations (printed in the Hartford Advocate and the Twilight Zone Magazine) remain a high point of my life. What a great interviewee: when asked a question, he would dive right in and run with the ball, his mind moving in all directions. And though he was very much caught up in the post-VALIS mysticism of that late stage of his life, he was quite capable of standing outside his own belief system and making critical, caustic comments about it.

Name a favorite novel, folks. Mine is MARTIAN TIME-SLIP when it's not UBIK...or TIME OUT OF JOINT...or--well, you get the idea.

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I read only SF in my pre- and early teens. Philip K. Dick was a mind-blowing experience as a young 'un.