If you're into SciFi/Theoretical it's all about DICK!

**I expect everyone who reads this to take it into full consideration!!**

Seriously, if you're into Science fiction or, just philosophy or anything! look for the author: PHILIP K DICK.

He has written many short stories and books with movie adaptations. He is the one acclaimed for: MINORITY REPORT, BLADE RUNNER, and others i can't think of right now (cause im stoned).

However the book I will speak of today is THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE.

Please listen! Just thinking of the book is putting me in a state of nostalgia and wonderment. The book is an awesome read that steps in the lives of 5 or more characters as they seek refuge in a Germany and Japan controlled U.S.A.

Yes, you heard that right. Had Germany and Japan succeed in WWII. The horrors of the extention of the third reich as well as the humor of the culture clash of U.S. and Asian customs (which is what it seems like now "i.e. yugioh").

ALSO, the philisophical and theoretical discussions entailed in that book are enough to make George Bush's head explode. I admit it is a hard read, but its the book that make you sit and think for hours after you've finished reading.

I know it's hard to just go out and buy a book but I advise anyone who loves to read and likes a challenging book to definately check this baby out.

THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE by PHILIP K DICK (or anyother book by him)

 

Keep an eye open for Dick's masterpiece 'Valis' too


I also like 'Through a scanner darkly'. One of the most interesting of post WWII sci-fi writers without doubt.

 

don't ferget - yr local public library will have some of his stuff on their sci-fi shelves (& they will be happy to get a copy of something you want from another library if they don't have it!)

yeah, philip k dick was/is an amazing author (& whose final years were apparently involved in actually living out some of the incredibly strange mix of modern times and biblical resonances/overlays described in the _valis_ corpus...)

 

Harry Turtledove is also a major writer in the Alternate Realities type of SF. Guns of the South was to me his best book. However, The Man in the High Castle (1974) started it all. A major good book.

 

Turtledove is alright. Guns Of The South was great, but i don't think he's on the same level as Phil...