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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by novak on Saturday December 24 2016, @07:04AM

    by novak (4683) on Saturday December 24 2016, @07:04AM (#445467) Homepage

    I collect Phillip K Dick novels, basically just whatever I can find at used book stores, and so far I have read 34 of them. The best novels of his I have read this year are "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich," and "Eye in the Sky." I was not particularly impressed by "The World Jones Made," and most of his other really famous books I read prior to this year (Valis, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, A Scanner Darkly, Radio Free Albemuth- all are excellent).

    I'm currently reading Dan Simmons's "Illium," and it is also an excellent book.

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  • (Score: 2) by Webweasel on Monday December 26 2016, @05:37PM

    by Webweasel (567) on Monday December 26 2016, @05:37PM (#446106) Homepage Journal

    +1 for a Scanner Darkly, nothing I have read gets as close to drug culture as that book does. Movie is excellent too.

    I read "Flow my tears the policeman said" last year, also well recommended.

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  • (Score: 2) by darnkitten on Thursday January 05 2017, @02:27AM

    by darnkitten (1912) on Thursday January 05 2017, @02:27AM (#449617)

    Library of America has a 3-volume set of Dick's novels (available individually or together on Amazon), and Citadel Press has a trade paperback collection of his stories (OOP, but still available, also on Amazon).

    I just purchased them this year for my local library; sadly, no one has yet checked the books out, though all the films based on them go out regularly.