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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer is the best of the non-sci-fi in my opinion. The rest are just okay.

I'm assuming even though you haven't mentioned it, you've read A Scanner Darkly. If not that's definitely a must read. Martian Time-Slip, Now Wait For Last Year, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are all amazing. I think there is a thread for POX PKD novels. I'll find that and link to it.

Oh and UBIK is also amazing.

POX Phillip K Dick

I'm assuming even though you haven't mentioned it, you've read A Scanner Darkly.

not read it, but it is next (or after next) in SF book club.

Confessions of a Crap Artist is the other good non sci-fi one (with Transmigration). I've read a couple of others, they're not bad, but "people moaning about their lives and being dissatisfied and stuff" is pretty much correct and while this can be interesting sometimes, for the most part I can't really recommend it too much, though I guess I did enjoy it enough to finish all the books that I started.

http://www.moesbooks.com/111122-the-exegesis-of-philip-k-dick/

dude I saw that thing for sale at the airport bookstore yesterday. like, amongst this week's batshit NRO hardbacks & the inspirational business tomes...the collected mystic visions of philip k dick

kinda awesome

yeah i was thumbing through a copy at the bookstore. i dont really want it? but i kinda really do

I need to pick this up. Didn't know it was out yet so big thanks.

hah, i didn't know lethem was onboard as editor

no one upthread seems to have mentioned 'chronic city', which is the most dicksian thing he's written in years, whether it's any good or not well, it's a lot better than 'you don't love me yet'

i keep having an urge to reread 'radio free albemuth'.

That's next on my re-reading list too, as I remember not a single thing about it. Deus Irae to follow.

>dude I saw that thing for sale at the airport bookstore yesterday.

that is just perfect

I flipped through a copy yesterday but waiting until tuesday to buy it. I met the co-editor Pamela Jackson last month at a friend's birthday party and she was simultaneously super down to earth and subtly tangential -- they way she talked about whittling 4000 pages to a mere 1000 gave me the impression she was one of the right people for this insane job. from what I skimmed it does not seem like anything you'd devour in order, but there were definitely some sentences jumping out at me

"i keep having an urge to reread 'radio free albemuth'."

This is one of my favorites, much better than Valis IMO.

i look at this as a a companion to that jack spicer anthology

I love Man In The High Castle forever and always.

this is amazing

never seen such a great PKD bio before. Fake "PKD" ads featuring Terry Gilliam and Elvis Costello, commentary from Aldiss, Disch, Powers, wives and friends interviewed etc

I just looked that for a second. Who is doing the narration, the guy from In The Heights?

I have no idea. assume this was some BBC thing

seems like the only PKD confidante that doesn't make an appearance is KW Jeter

got to the credits at the end. readings are credited to ... Greg Proops?! random.

!!! thanks for posting Shakey, I will check this out immediately.

Yup, Greg Proops is the narrator. I think this thing was made about 94-95, which is prime Whose Line era.

http://www.philipkdick.com/images/new_letters_walker-bladerunn.jpg

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-1/

And continuing

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-2/

Sad news that Dick's first literary executor (before that, founder of Crawdaddy) Paul Williams has passed. As noted, he had never been then same after his bicycling accident and injury, but what an amazing legacy to have left behind, the cultural enthusiast as key figure in ensuring further attention for that which he loved.

The World Jones Made is fantastic, just so's you know

Just finished Ubik, very good

The Crack in Space is so great

the upcoming Simpsons Lego ep seems to have more to do with a PKD story than Lego:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGSpOfIr9Y

well, right you are. books on the bookshelf:

sort my pieces the policefig said
do minifigs dream of plastic sheep
beyond lies the nub
a scanner blockly

Should I get ebook of The Crack In Space, which is on sale today?

I see that calstars is a fan.

I only read it once, but remember it as one of his chuck-it-out-in-a-week-for-the-money jobs, along with Vulcan's Hammer and a couple of others. There are better PKD books really.

Crack started out slowly but then took an insane left turn that carried it through to the end. The book is enjoyable as both as both scifi and also as a commentary on race.

If it's cheap, why not? I like his pulp books a lot tho

I'm reading the Simulacra now, which at about 1/3 through has yet to hit its stride.

Btw if you live in New York, most of his stuff is available as free e-book loans from the public library.

Hm. They all say "0 Availability on 0 Copies." Maybe the system is down.

http://io9.com/last-nights-lego-simpsons-episode-was-filled-with-phili-1571977258

20 years ago I would have maybe thought that was funny

lol at the absence of pun in 'we can build you'

The Simulacra not one of his strongest works. Bit of a hodgepodge of things from his other novels

Lies, inc. takes place in 2014, so it has that going for it

Man In the High Castle on Amazon?!?!?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSI5EHQ/ref=dv_dp_ep1

Apparently this just got released like five minutes ago or something....

Talk about zero pre-release fanfare.

bodes well

Sounds awesome.

Hopefully there's at least one entire episode devoted to a character trying to make sense of an I Ching reading