Hello, my first post on this forum. I've read all of PKD (and I mean ALL except a very obscure book called Gather Yourselves Together). The Library of America editions do seem to have covered pretty much the best of PKD. I would argue that A Maze of Death is a major work although probably not in the top ten overall. In fact I think the selections are spot on.
Of those that didn't make it to LoA immortality, Eye in the Sky and Time Out of Joint are important early works. Both of them were pivotal in PKD's career and both are worth reading. But the minor PKD work that has the fondest place in my heart is The World Jones Made, a very early work that is clunkily put together but packed full of interesting ideas.
Then of course there are the mainstream novels, all but one of which were published after PKD's death in 1982. Confessions of a Crap Artist is the one that was published before he died, and that's as good a place to start with the mainstream novels as any. If you like that, I can recommend Mary and the Giant, Puttering About in a Small Land and Humpty Dumpty in Oakland. That's a lot of Dick.
Of those that didn't make it to LoA immortality, Eye in the Sky and Time Out of Joint are important early works. Both of them were pivotal in PKD's career and both are worth reading. But the minor PKD work that has the fondest place in my heart is The World Jones Made, a very early work that is clunkily put together but packed full of interesting ideas.
Then of course there are the mainstream novels, all but one of which were published after PKD's death in 1982. Confessions of a Crap Artist is the one that was published before he died, and that's as good a place to start with the mainstream novels as any. If you like that, I can recommend Mary and the Giant, Puttering About in a Small Land and Humpty Dumpty in Oakland. That's a lot of Dick.
