Christopher’s Comments (group member since Jun 22, 2017)

Christopher’s comments from the Philip K Dick group.

Still reading this, still enjoying it very much, but I wonder why, when Mayerson goes to Mars (Purgatory?), he not only loses his pre-cog abilities, which would be fine for the plot, but neither he nor anyone else notices, amid all the theology and 'masochism,' as the OP calls it, - That is pretty strange.

But he foresaw his death earlier, right? So is Mayerson dead now?

Just at the point where Allen Faine, the orbital DJ, is telling Barney he will have to give himself "Q-strain" epilepsy to clinch the case against Chew-Z.

Hertzan wrote: "Totally depressing and mind-f***ing novel of 5*****ness, just like Flow My Tears, just like Cosmic Puppets....."

Hello. I'm reviving this five-year old discussion because I'm reading this now, and it is blowing my little mind.

Having just read Matian Time-slip, and Ubik before that, I can see this as half-way between the two. Leo parallels the gantse macher plumbers' union boss in Time-slip, and the trippy Can-D and Chew-Z worlds are like the half-life in Ubik.

As far as Hertzan's overall conclusions, for one thing, I haven't finished the book yet, but I do appreciate PKD's contrarian portrayal of space colonization as, basically, a very little house on a very big prairie, so to speak.

I don't know if this is the best place to post this news, but apparently quite a few PKD books have been made available for Kindle Unlimited:

https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Store-P...

I'm going to start with Martian Time Slip myself.

I was excited to find this group, but it is not very active.

This year, I re-read The Man in the High Castle, and finally read Do Androids Dream... both with another group.

At least I learned from them that there are a few other PKD's that sound interesting (Ubik, Now Wait for Last Year)