by Tom Weiner, Philip K. Dick
Set in the (then) near future of 1972, this 1963 novel is PKD's take on the post apocalypse subgenre of sci-fi. For my money Dick did it better than anybody else (as he often did). Grim realistic post apocalypse novels like [b:The Road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320...
The BasicsThrough the course of this story, we follow the beginning of the end of the world, then the progress of those who manage to survive it. At the center of a post-apocalyptic community is Hoppy Harrington, a physically handicapped young man with psychic powers. In this new world, he sees his ...
Originally posted here.Okay, so. Â Trying to write about Dr Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb without spoiling the shit out of it for people who haven't read it is NIGH ON IMPOSSIBLE but I'm going to give it my best shot (especially since I know of at least one person reading this that w...
It's this style of writing and bleak humour and outlook that first enamoured me of PKD. He is, as always, solid in his characterizations and human interactions. Dick presents an extremely warped and welcome presentation of a post apocalyptic world and it's thanks to his outre characters. Hoppy, Edie...
This is probably the weakest PKD book I've read. Not that it was especially bad, it just didn't really work for me on any level. At no point did I find myself particularly engrossed and enjoying the story. The narrative, fragmented by numerous points of view of the disparate characters whose futures...
Dick places his absurdist situations, bleak scenarios, and quirky characters within an almost pastoral post-apocalyptic san francisco-bay area. the setting is primarily a small town in marin, with everyday people slowly trying to rebuild themselves and their world. the writing is typically loose and...
There is something so poignant about the image of an astronaut trapped in orbit reading M. Somerset Maugham aloud into his radio, not knowing if anyone can hear him, while thousands of people below tune in every night to listen.
Set after a nuclear accident and then a nuclear war, civilisation partially broken-down, starting to rebuild. Some typical PKD characters: Working Man; Bitch Woman; and some typical motifs: merged bodies/personalities; the madness and psychoses of certain characters that actually do reflect, or affe...
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