Well, If you do. Join up today because I Redrum love those strange and powerful tales of brave new worlds. (Even the man in the high castle is brave!).

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I do....but I might to too much of a radical commie. for you.....see my other posts....

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Not I! Sorry, but he is about two steps over the "strange" line for my tastes.

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Yes I do , but with some reservation. I could not finish UBIK , too strange for me , too hard to stand ! Dont need to take drugs , just read this book !

I do. What am I joining up for?

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his best:

"The Transmigration of Timothy Archer", more occult than sci-fi
"A Scanner Darkly", suspense/crime/sci-fi elements
"Valis", occult/philosophical
"A Maze of Death", sci-fi/virtual reality
"The Man In the High Castle", sci-fi/alternate universe/time-line
"Ubik", sci-fi

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If I had not read some of your other posts as suggested i would have understand just the contrary !

About Dick , i liked "Solar Lottery" and "Three stigmata of Palmer Eldrich" (What a tittle !)

Some short stories i read in French in the French edition of Galaxy magazine were good too.

Red galacsi

Hrm. Sounds interesting. Which book would you recommed, of all of his, as a first read?

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I missed reading him, only because I had a full plate already. Dad was a big Sci-fi fan, as was my older brother. So I had a big library to read through as it was.

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My first was Ubik (very weird). I suggest that one, or else The 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is a bit similar.

A different choice from earlier in his career is Clans of the Alphane Moon.

There's also The Man in the High Castle, which won him a Hugo, though I've never read that one.

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The Man in the High Castle was the only PKD novel I've read. I found it to be a bit stilted, and I prefer novels that flow, so I've never read any of his other works.

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galacsi, if you want your head twisted I can recommend:

Anything by Micheal Moorcock. Read all his stuff when I was a teen. Wow, it still messes with me.

Robert Jordan's Gods of Flux and Anchor. Don't read that one if you are already stressed. One of those stories where only in a work of fiction could people stay that stressed out for that long.

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Ubik it is. I've been looking to add to my collection lately.

*used to own about 900 books back in '01. Donated all but a hundred to the local library when I moved. Back up to a few hundred again, and slowly increasing.

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I enjoy his shorter work best. A shot, not the whole bottle. But I read Ubik as a lad, and Galactic Pot Healer, some others. My SS favorites are probably "The Preserving Machine" and "Faith of Our Fathers". Both quite disturbing to me.

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I have only read The Man in the High Castle. It was ok, but the dialog seemed unnatural (did people really talk like that in the 1960s?) and it seemed to end abruptly. It hinted that one character had temporarily shifted into our reality (where the Allies won WWII) but it didn't follow through with that... it just ended. I've heard PKD had started to write a sequel but it ended up becoming a totally different story (I can't remember which one).

I started to read Counter-Clock World but it was just too weird. If time was moving backwards (or whatever, I didn't get far enough into it to find out exactly what was going on) wouldn't people be talking backwards, walking backwards, unlearning things, etc? It just didn't work. It might have worked better as a zombie story without the backwards time element.

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I like PKD quite a lot; his characters are more interesting than most SF writers because they are often way out-of-kilter with the 'real' world. Electric Sheep and High Castle are favourites, but I really like his non-SF work 'Confessions of a Crap Artist' with its insider depiction of a minor end-of-the-world cult.

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The book "Blade Runner" is convoluted, gripping, twisted and dark and really holds up well. The movie is good too - well, the director's cut that is.

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My only one till date is Ubik and it definitely counts as weird. That kind of stopped me from getting more of his books.

Maybe I will try the movie 'Blade Runner' next and see how weird that is >

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It did take me a while to get to like Ubik. I was put off by the enigmatic ending, the first time I read it. Nowadays, I think the ending is what makes it all jell.

I second mike alexander's suggestion of checking out his short stories. Regarding his later work, much of it is semiautobiographical, and therefore more interesting when you've already got into the author, but The Divine Invasion is an accessible exception.

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I 've not read much Moorcock, but what I've read (the early Elric short stories plus The Dreamthief's Daughter) didn't strike me as particularly weird or out there. Is the rest of his work trippier?

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