You shoulda read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch instead.
You shoulda read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch instead.
Bitch you advised me to read Electric Sheep first!
All of the big name ones are good. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, UBIK, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly. They're all really quick reads, too. And you can't go wrong with his short stories, either.
Phillip K. Dick is omg awesome, in general. Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and The Man in the High Castle will rock your face.
Phillip K. Dick is omg awesome, in general. Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and The Man in the High Castle will rock your face.
I really liked the premise and almost all of The Man in the High Castle, but its payoff is kinda weak. Palmer Eldritch is just WTFMINDBLOWNAHHHH though. I would've finished up the collection with Electric Sheep and Ubik by now if it weren't for me having to read a shitton of other sci-fi for a class. I'm not complaining though.
Phillip K. Dick is omg awesome, in general. Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and The Man in the High Castle will rock your face.
I really liked the premise and almost all of The Man in the High Castle, but its payoff is kinda weak. Palmer Eldritch is just WTFMINDBLOWNAHHHH though. I would've finished up the collection with Electric Sheep and Ubik by now if it weren't for me having to read a shitton of other sci-fi for a class. I'm not complaining though.
Really? The ending is so left-field, I felt as if I just realized I'd been getting fucked in the butt in a virtual world for days.
I'm about half-way through The Divine Invasion right now. Crazy stuff.
Basically, Jesus' mission on Earth was not successful, and after the fall of Massada to the Romans in 73 AD, God was forced to retreat from Earth by Belial. Belial then sets up a barrier of evil around the Earth to prevent God from returning. God's now living in exile on in a mountain on a planet in a distance solar system. Eventually the planet gets inhabited by humans, and God impregnates a woman on that planet and then sends Elijah to tell her and another man that they are to take the baby and travel back to Earth. The unborn baby will be allowed to slip past Belial's barrier of evil, and eventually reestablish God's domain on Earth, an Earth which is currently controlled by two superpowers of The Christian-Islamic Church and The Scientific Legate, and the A.I. known as Big Noodle.
I'm about half-way through The Divine Invasion right now. Crazy stuff.
Basically, Jesus' mission on Earth was not successful, and after the fall of Massada to the Romans in 73 AD, God was forced to retreat from Earth by Belial. Belial then sets up a barrier of evil around the Earth to prevent God from returning. God's now living in exile on in a mountain on a planet in a distance solar system. Eventually the planet gets inhabited by humans, and God impregnates a woman on that planet and then sends Elijah to tell her and another man that they are to take the baby and travel back to Earth. The unborn baby will be allowed to slip past Belial's barrier of evil, and eventually reestablish God's domain on Earth, an Earth which is currently controlled by two superpowers of The Christian-Islamic Church and The Scientific Legate, and the A.I. known as Big Noodle.
wtf! I need to read that; it's apart of a trilogy or something right?
I'm about half-way through The Divine Invasion right now. Crazy stuff.
Basically, Jesus' mission on Earth was not successful, and after the fall of Massada to the Romans in 73 AD, God was forced to retreat from Earth by Belial. Belial then sets up a barrier of evil around the Earth to prevent God from returning. God's now living in exile on in a mountain on a planet in a distance solar system. Eventually the planet gets inhabited by humans, and God impregnates a woman on that planet and then sends Elijah to tell her and another man that they are to take the baby and travel back to Earth. The unborn baby will be allowed to slip past Belial's barrier of evil, and eventually reestablish God's domain on Earth, an Earth which is currently controlled by two superpowers of The Christian-Islamic Church and The Scientific Legate, and the A.I. known as Big Noodle.
oh god don't remind me of that series
I'm about half-way through The Divine Invasion right now. Crazy stuff.
Basically, Jesus' mission on Earth was not successful, and after the fall of Massada to the Romans in 73 AD, God was forced to retreat from Earth by Belial. Belial then sets up a barrier of evil around the Earth to prevent God from returning. God's now living in exile on in a mountain on a planet in a distance solar system. Eventually the planet gets inhabited by humans, and God impregnates a woman on that planet and then sends Elijah to tell her and another man that they are to take the baby and travel back to Earth. The unborn baby will be allowed to slip past Belial's barrier of evil, and eventually reestablish God's domain on Earth, an Earth which is currently controlled by two superpowers of The Christian-Islamic Church and The Scientific Legate, and the A.I. known as Big Noodle.
That sounds like a bizarre ancient astronaut version of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy.
oh god don't remind me of that series
What's wrong with it? ???
I'm about half-way through The Divine Invasion right now. Crazy stuff.
Basically, Jesus' mission on Earth was not successful, and after the fall of Massada to the Romans in 73 AD, God was forced to retreat from Earth by Belial. Belial then sets up a barrier of evil around the Earth to prevent God from returning. God's now living in exile on in a mountain on a planet in a distance solar system. Eventually the planet gets inhabited by humans, and God impregnates a woman on that planet and then sends Elijah to tell her and another man that they are to take the baby and travel back to Earth. The unborn baby will be allowed to slip past Belial's barrier of evil, and eventually reestablish God's domain on Earth, an Earth which is currently controlled by two superpowers of The Christian-Islamic Church and The Scientific Legate, and the A.I. known as Big Noodle.
wtf! I need to read that; it's apart of a trilogy or something right?
Valis and The Divine Invasion are part of an unfinished trilogy. Radio Free Albermuth was published after PKD's death, and was kind of alternative draft of Valis that he had written.
Spreaking of Radio Free Albermuth, they've made a movie of it starring Alanis Morissette that's coming out this year. Not really holding out much hope for that, but who knows.