From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdcsla!erickson Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: P.K. Dick Article-I.D.: sdcsla.289 Posted: Tue Feb 15 11:52:04 1983 Received: Sat Feb 19 05:16:09 1983 P. K. Dick books. My favorites include Eye in the Sky, A Scanner Darkly, Confessions of a Crap Artist, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. Time out of Joint, Clans of the Alphane Moon, Martian Time Slip, the Three Stigmata of Eldritch Palmer, and Ubik are also quite good. I should tell you that I a P.K.D. fanatic. (Most of the above are still in print; but you'll have to go to second hand stores (like Zeising Bros.) to get Eye in the Sky (well worth it, it's a really funny book). I would warn newcomers to Dick to avoid his recent theolgical sf (namely VALIS, the Divine Invasion, and the Transmigration of Timothy Archer). In particular, I do not recomment VALIS, except to those fascinated enough by PKD's work to be interested in what one of the less saner periods of his life was like. The above-mentioned Confessions of a Crap Artist is not sf but is one of at least 11 "experimental mainstream novels" Dick wrote during the first ten years of his writing career. It is exceptionally good (if you like black humor) and has just been re-released as sf in the last year. His short storys are also quite good: The Golden Man and The Preserving Machine are good collections. Tom Erickson UCSD Psyc Department ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcsla!erickson