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
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