This alternate history is very well imagined and the narrative device of revealing bits of the world through somewhat intertwined character perspectives is interesting. The story almost overlooks the complexity of this new world to tell a mere story of several characters during a short period of tim...
I first read this book twenty years ago, when I first discovered the author. I don't remember thinking much of it at the time, but that was also the time when I had been reading horror almost exclusively, and I'm not sure I was in the right place to appreciate a book like this at that time. I went o...
“They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is n...
bookshelves: fraudio, summer-2014, historical-masturbation, published-1962, sci-fi, wwii, slaves, tbr-busting-2014, books-about-books-and-book-shops Read from May 08 to June 06, 2014 Narrated by George Guidall -A Hugo Award WinnerDescription: In his critically-acclaimed science fiction novel, P...
I tried reading this novel 2 years ago, and couldn’t connect with it. I decided to pick it up again at the end of last week; and didn’t stop until I finished. The novel is a dystopian historical fiction of a world where the Allies lost WW2. Japan, Germany and Italy are the ruling powers, the Medit...
“The hands of the artificer,” Paul said, “had wu, and allowed that wu to flow into this piece. Possibly he himself knows only that this piece satisfies. It is complete, Robert. By contemplating it, we gain more wu ourselves. We experience the tranquility associated not with art but with holy things....
Whoa man, this book is, like, deep. But seriously, there's a lot going on here. The overarching theme of real/false realities (including a weird and interesting scene where Tagomi completely trips out and catches a glimpse of "our" world) and what that even means was fascinating and, I'm now beginn...
This 1962 novel is the work that made Philip K. Dick's reputation, and it is appropriately one weird novel, but one where the memory of the setting lingers after the book is read. This novel is set in the year it was published - 1962 - but a very different 1962. The Axis powers, chiefly Germany a...
I was surprised by how sophisticated this was, in some ways. It feels much later than 1962. The way Dick constructs the different characters inner narratives, as products of their history and society, is the best bit. The struggles of culture, identity and self-esteem read as perfectly contemporary ...
This is only the second PKD book I have read and it has led me to a couple of thoughts about the man. One, he had an exceptional imagination. Two, he wrote a lot more than necessary to get his point across. The concept of this book, while totally original, was incredibly simple - what if Germany ...
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