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Dave · Post by **Dave** » November 8th, 2007, 9:50 am

that's it... i'm converting

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » November 8th, 2007, 10:16 am

niiiiiiice.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » November 8th, 2007, 10:49 am

That is hilarious. I love God's last line.

DollarBill · Post by **DollarBill** » November 8th, 2007, 11:40 am

I had to look up who Philip K Dick was. Should I read anything by him?

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » November 8th, 2007, 11:41 am

DollarBill wrote:I had to look up who Philip K Dick was. Should I read anything by him?

Holy sweet mother of god.

Yes.

YES!

His prose isn't the best or well-crafted (from a simple word-smithing perspective), but his ideas are amazing. Pick up and of his short story collections or novels and dig in.

Mo Daviau · Post by **Mo Daviau** » November 8th, 2007, 11:42 am

Bob A. owns every paperback PKD ever wrote. Talk to Bob.

DollarBill · Post by **DollarBill** » November 8th, 2007, 11:46 am

kbadr wrote:Pick up any of his short story collections or novels and dig in.

I don't want ANY. I want the greatest hits.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » November 8th, 2007, 11:49 am

The We Can Remember It For You Wholesale collection is very good.

While you're on a Sci Fi short story kick, check out GJ Ballard's shorts.

DollarBill · Post by **DollarBill** » November 8th, 2007, 12:34 pm

Short stories is probably a good idea for me right now since I'm right in the middle of "How to Make Your Car Handle", and a bunch of other similarly titled books.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » November 8th, 2007, 12:50 pm

On the off chance that you know nothing about PK Dick, he wrote the novella that became BladeRunner.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » November 8th, 2007, 12:59 pm

I've read many by Philip K. Dick. He is so awesome. I think A Scanner Darkly, though it is a novel, reads very, very quickly. I recommend that. But if you want to get into stuff that is so freaky cool realistic druggy sci fi, I recommend a masterpiece like VALIS. Or The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » November 8th, 2007, 4:22 pm

kbadr wrote:On the off chance that you know nothing about PK Dick, he wrote the novella that became BladeRunner.

I seem to totally recall its title as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » November 8th, 2007, 10:14 pm

Citadel Press has most of his short stories collected in about 4-5 volumes including:

Eye of the Sibyl (and other classic stories)
The Minority Report ("")
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ("")
The Short Happy Like of the Brown Oxford ("")
Second Variety ("")

Yes, that Minority Report. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale became "Total Recall".

Justin D. · Post by **Justin D.** » November 9th, 2007, 12:54 am

HerrHerr wrote:
kbadr wrote:On the off chance that you know nothing about PK Dick, he wrote the novella that became BladeRunner.
I seem to totally recall its title as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Yep, that's it. I haven't actually read it, but I know that's the name of it. I'm sure you're aware of it, but Paramount is going to show the new super duper they mean it for realsies this time final cut of Bladerunner starting November 18.

I'm reading my first Phillip K. Dick book now. It's called The World Jones Made. I'm only a few chapters in, but it's quite good so far and I've read he was still trying to find his feet with this one. Check out the link above for 13 different interpretations of the book's cover, depending on when and where it was published.