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Cover of Ubik by Philip K. Dick

The Best Dick is Mysterious Dick

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

August 14, 2025 by Halbs Leave a Comment

I’ve read a few PKD novels by now, and now my favorite by far is Ubik. It is a true mindfreak of a novel. It’s got all of the stuff that makes a great science fiction novel – interesting technology and culture, real philosophical questions, and plain old entertainment. I ditched my plans this weekend to read this whole thing in two days. I can’t stop thinking about it. The story starts simply enough. Down-on-his-luck Joe Chip works as an anti-psychic. That may sound exciting, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Philip K. Dick

Halbs's CBR17 Review No:15 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Philip K. Dick ·
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Very meta

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick

December 9, 2024 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

The Man in the High Castle is a speculative narrative – what would the world be like if the allied forces lost WWII? What would a life under a Nazi Germany and Japanese regime look like? The story loosely revolves around Frank, a pawn show owner is San Fran who trades in authentic American memorabilia. He is also, secretly, Jewish. Though he’s changed his physical appearance and voice so as to go undetected. Going into this novel, I hadn’t seen the TV series so cannot […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Philip K. Dick

Caesar's Wife's CBR16 Review No:20 · Genres: Audiobooks, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Philip K. Dick ·
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Philip K Dick

Collected Stories Volume 3 by Philip K Dick

April 24, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“Professor Anthony Douglas lowered gratefully into his red-leather easy chair and sighed. A long sigh, accompanied by a labored removal of his shoes and numerous grunts as he kicked them into the corner. He folded his hands across his ample middle and lay back, eyes, closed. ‘Tired?’ Laura Douglas, asked turning from the kitchen stove a moment, her dark eyes sympathetic.” In this third volume of Philip K Dick stories, we get a similarly varied collection of space, future, technology, magic, dimensional, and other kinds […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Philip K. Dick

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:266 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Philip K. Dick ·
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Spring Cleaning

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

The Lemming Condition by Alan Arkin

Trump and Populism by Michael Kazin

How Do We Look by Mary Beard

Family Life by Russel Banks

Last Train from Perdition by Robert McCammon

The Rule of St Benedict by St Benedict

Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss

April 4, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave “A young boy climbs a riverbank.” This tour memoir and more or less book of poetry opens up with the image above of a young boy climbing up a riverbank and feeling like he has a brush with a train passing close by. I was girding myself for the possibility that I had decided to read a book that Nick Cave write after the death of his son in a not impossibly similar situation. That would happen a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alan Arkin, Eugene O'Neill, Louis Auchincloss, Mary Beard, Michael Kazin, Nick Cave, Philip K. Dick, Robert McCammon, Russel Banks, St Benedict

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:223 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alan Arkin, Eugene O'Neill, Louis Auchincloss, Mary Beard, Michael Kazin, Nick Cave, Philip K. Dick, Robert McCammon, Russel Banks, St Benedict ·
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Give PKD a Pass and Read Some Octavia Butler, Save Yourself!!

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick

November 19, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Honestly a disappointing and often infuriating read. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is Volume Five of Philip K Dick’s collected short stories, covering 25 stories from the mid-60s to early 80s, and is also the title of the most famous story in the collection. I had read this before maybe seven years ago and have been carrying it around since. As part of my effort to weed out my fiction shelves, I figured I would re-read it and see if it was a […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: #Science Fiction, 70s sci-fi, classic sci-fi, Philip K. Dick, short story collection

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:131 · Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: #Science Fiction, 70s sci-fi, classic sci-fi, Philip K. Dick, short story collection ·
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Adjustment Team

The Collected Stories of Philip K Dick Volume 2: Adjustment Team by Philip K Dick

Second Variant by Philip K Dick

Jon's World by Philip K Dick

November 10, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the second collection of Philip K Dick’s stories and novellas. In the first collection (and these collections goes chronologically for the most part), it was mostly rough and early stories with a couple of real gems like “Paycheck” among others. What I tend to find really good about Philip K Dick novels is that he often has a good central conceit that drives the stories, but the story itself is often more weird and bizarre and off the wall than that. That’s why […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Philip K. Dick

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:635 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Philip K. Dick ·
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