What is your favorite Philip K Dick story?

[Connavar]

We should trade stories sometime.

In the meanwhile, if I start mistaking PKD for Patricia McKillip or Poul Anderson, you all have permission to put me away!

I do need to get to A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids..., though...

You need to read atleast three top level PKD to payback PKD for the unfair mistake

Now Wait For Last Year is a good one to add to the other two books.

 

[Grimward]

Fair enough, Sir Conn. Now Wait for Last Year is added to my sentence.

BTW, been meaning to ask about your avatar; looks a lot like a comic book superhero created by Marvel in the 1970s, name of 'Nova'. Just a guess, of course, and have seen many other illustrations it could be, too, but that one sticks in my head...

 

[Connavar]

Fair enough, Sir Conn. Now Wait for Last Year is added to my sentence.

BTW, been meaning to ask about your avatar; looks a lot like a comic book superhero created by Marvel in the 1970s, name of 'Nova'. Just a guess, of course, and have seen many other illustrations it could be, too, but that one sticks in my head...

It is Richard Rider aka Nova. Im a fan of his newest series. I like reading cosmic marvel. The SF reader in me likes those type stories.

 

[Grimward]

You and me both, chief. Not to take the thread hostage, but I've always been a big fan of the Kree/Skrull stories, Captain Marvel (Marvel's 1970's "cosmic" version, not to be confused with "Shazam"), and especially Adam Warlock, Galactus, the Watcher, etc., too. Nova, when he was introduced, fit right in like a glove!

O.K. sorry 'bout that! Returning the thread to its regularly scheduled discourse on PKD....

(unless, of course, Conn has more to add)

 

[Grimward]

Just a small coda, to indicate that I'm a Grim-of-his-word; have procured a copy of A Scanner Darkly and commenced reading!

 

[Grimward]

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Reporting on my Connavar-adjucated "Penance":

Finished A Scanner Darkly this morning. I thought Dick's coda and memorial at the end of the book were a masterstroke in breathing perspective into the characters, who's development was a bit hard to follow (although it's very clear to see that Dick intended this to be the case to give added depth to the drug-induced state of Fred/Robert Arctor and the characters around him). As noted before, I'm not big on most druggie (ie, books with drugs as a central theme and method of developing the characters), but this held me well enough to want to read more of PKD.

 

[Connavar]

Trust me PKD can do much more than a druggie as central theme. Normally i dont even like that stuff either but PKD makes it interesting.

Not a easy first book but im glad you liked it. I read the first chapter in some collection i had about future cops. It was confusing,wierd but thats something to expect now.

Every PKD book i have read started confusing,rambling. He dont do the regular build up the character,his world before throwing inside the character's head.