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... imagination, an empathy for characters and an insight into the human condition. I felt this book was much better than The Man in the High Castle the first book of his I read. In the two volumes from Library of America I have seven more of his books to read and they are moving to the top ... ... – Jay Lake
21) Nine Princes in Amber – Roger Zelazny
22) Islandia – Austin Tappan Wright
23) The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
24) The Merchant Princes – Charles Stross (another series)
25) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas A ... ... Delany
Nova – Samuel R. Delany
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Ubik – Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
Forever War – Joe Haldeman
Fallen Dragon – Peter F. Hamilton
Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison
Dune - Frank ... ...
Brian W. Aldiss - Hothouse
J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
Robert Sheckley - Journey Beyond Tomorrow
Clifford D. Simak - Way Station
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Brian W. Aldiss - Greybeard
Wi ... ... continue reissuing the SF Masterworks they originally published in hardback (lacking the pbk rights) as 'cased' editions. The Man in the High Castle (#72, July), Childhood's End (#73, August), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (#74, December) are all teed up thus far. I hope A Canticle for ... ... books through this group so I hope it gets busy again. Special thanks for introducing me to Christopher Priest and The Man in the High Castle. ... New Age! - Oe
The Woman in the Dunes - Abe
New Grub Street - Gissing
The Return - Joseph Conrad
The Man in the High Castle - Dick
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - Chesterton 1. Dhalgren
2. The Left Hand of Darkness
3. George R.R. Martin}'s Song of Ice and Fire series
4. The Man in the High Castle by Dick
5. The Female Man by Russ The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick ... colleagues. He has a real bug up his behind about Robert Silverberg for example.
Ubik is probably my favorite. I like MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE .
Not a fan of A SCANNER DARKLY.It's barely a SF novel, and in that regard I don't think it's as good a drug novel as Drugstore Cowboy or Panic ... Ardashir #9 mentions Fatherland. Another book on the "Germans won the war" theme is The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick which is set in the United States. Germany controls an Eastern zone and there is a Japanese zone in California. A sort of neutral zone in between. It briefly inspired me ... ... F_A_V_O_R_I_T_E book is Galatic Pot Healer!!!!
I also really like Ubik, Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep, The Man in the High Castle,actually there isn't much he wrote that I don't like. I don't believe Philip K. Dick's brilliant The Man in the High Castle is on the list, but if you're into alternate history, it's a can't-miss (and also relates to the post-WWII period). I've read quite a few of PKD's novels - Solar Lottery, The Man Who Japed, The Man in the High Castle, Martian Time-slip, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, Valis, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, A Maze of Death. Also some short story collections - The Little Black Box ... ... Alternate History book. Priest shows you how WWII went in Britain and then he shows you an alternate WWII. I also liked The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. ... bad (VULCAN'S HAMMER and LIES, INC.) he is positively atrocious.
And, to tell the absolute truth, I have to reread THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, Phil's only Hugo-winner (he once used the award to break up a fight on his front yard, leaving the silver rocket with a permanent list). When I ... ... buried in the trunk. Reviewers were not especially enthusiastic.
For novels to try, the Library of America volume has The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Ubik. I'd say try one of those - not necessarily in the ... The real difference between the Chabon and The Man in the High Castle or Weapons of Choice is FOCUS. The focus in The Yiddish Policeman's Union is the noir, the murder, and the personal relationships. As far as I could see there was no particular reason to set it in Alaska. Why not Poland? ... ... Union is alternate history, which makes it sf according to majority of sf readers. If it isn't sf, then neither is The Man in the High Castle, Aztec Century or Weapons of Choice, among countless others. What about alternate history? Robert Harris' Fatherland, or Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle, or Christopher Evans' Aztec Century?
In fact, what about space opera? There's very little in that which is postulated from the ramifications of technological change... The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick For parallel histories, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick is pretty good. I also liked The Yiddish Policemen's Union. For time travel, I certainly enjoyed The Domesday Book, which jumps back and forth between the medieval plague and a frightening modern day epidemic, while ... ... :
Alvin Journeyman and series by Orson Scott Card
Making History by Stephen Fry
Shadow of Albion by Andre Norton
Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Eyre Affair and series by Jasper Fforde
Islandia by Austin Ta ... The Rings of Saturn, by WG Sebald
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Go-Between by LP Hartley
... Dick was a jewelry maker, jewelry makers and craft artisans often make appearances in Phillip Dick's books. There's one in The Man in the High Castle.
James Blish's short story A Work of Art concerns itself with a composer, although composing music is not the only art form the title ... And don't forget Philip K. Dick Man in the High Castle....a classic. ... that was what science fiction was I wanted no part of it.
Second exposure was in my early twenties--Ender's Game and The Man in the High Castle. I fell in love with the genre and read nothing but for about six years.
I've never tried any Heinlein again though. ... r
The Stand by Stephen King
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick
Music for Torching by A.M. Homes
Lights out in the Reptile House by Jim Shepard
A canticle for Leibowitz ... ... by Philip K. Dick. The easiest ones to use for your purposes would be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle.
If you're going to include short stories, you need to cover Harlan Ellison; he's only written two or three novels over the course of his ... ... "Dick K. Philip" and leads to an empty author page) ... there are a lot of good choices, but I'd particularly suggest:
The man in the high castle
Ubik
The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Valis
A scanner darkly
Do androids dream of electric sheep ("Bladerunner") Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Man in the High Castle This wasn't at all what I was expecting but I'm glad I read it because now I know what all the fuss was about.
One Year Off: leaving it all behind for a round-the-world journey with our children One day I'll stop ... ... more 'alternative history' stuff along the lines of Turtledove. Off the top of my head, examples of this include:
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick (Hitler wins)
Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois (Cuban missile crisis turns into nuclear war)
Weapons of Choice and ... ... been able to dredge up include:
Heinlein: Have Space Suit – Will Travel
Bradbury: Martian Chronicles
PK Dick: The Man in the High Castle
Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan
Asimov: Foundation Trilogy
Van Vogt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Something by Theodore Sturgeon, ... ... of awards are sometimes not the best steer but looking at shortlists is often better.
For Dick we would then have The Man In The High Castle which won a Hugo as you say. Dr Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears, ... ... Richard Dawkins
Guns, Germs and Steel : A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years by Jared Diamond
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Bleak House (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner
Neverwhere by Neil Gaim ... ... novels. It's entitled "Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 60's" and will contain Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=252
As far as I can tell, this is the first ... ... This was the first novel of his that I read, and I liked the setup of a country with borders within...similar to The Man in the High Castle.
And yes, everyone must read lighter fare on a regualr basis - it is what keeps some of us sane in this world! ... everybody talks about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and virtually none of PKD's other novels (though I did see The Man in the High Castle) on there). He wrote like 30 books, people, and I don't really think Dadoes was the best. It's just the one that happened to have a good film ... ... cop-out straight away and just track what I read in 2007.
So far:
1. The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed by John McPhee
2. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Day of the Jackal by ... ... book, so the history it describes is very detailed, but it's not what I'd call a page turner.
Some classics of AH are The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (set in America after an Axis victory in WW2), Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (set in the United States after a Southern ... ... In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories, which I am, as I'd hoped, enjoying vastly more, this rainy morning, than I did The Castle. I'm still awaiting Hrabal's I Served the King of England, which is terribly slow to ship; then it's onward, at last. I've enjoyed the Czechs, though (Ger ... The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick. ... he is a bit over-represented on the second list ... I would have left it at Do androids dream of electric sheep? and mayb Man in the high castle ... I think he is more influential for his approach/themes than specific books. I've finished the first of my "travel reads" for this week (The Man in the High Castle, Specimen Days and Siddhartha), and now I'm on to The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. I read about 50 pages in the middle of the night (jet-lag gives me all kinds of odd hours in which to ... ...
I've been picking out books for a 9-day work trip (and 13 hour flight each way), so my list for the next while is:
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
I think I might need one or two more, but ... Not sure if it's the sort of thing you are looking for but The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick is a 'What if the Allies lost WWII' book. The story itself and the characters are a bit quirky. Definitely not a war novel. Takes place in a US that is half German occupied territory and half ... ... understand anyone actually reading Celine and not liking him - I'm currently re-reading North and will move on to Castle to Castle next.
Chacun a son gout I guess
BTW gotta laugh at the touchstone selections
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