Philip K. Dick
by Andrew M. Butler · first published 2001
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Philip K. Dick (Ubik, Man in the high castle, Flow my tears the police man said) Frederik Pohl (Gateway, the Space Merchants) Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness) Iain M. Banks (Culture novels)…
on “What are your favourite sci-fi books?” ↗…Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Being and Time (Martin Heidegger) Of Grammatology (Jacques Derrida) Writing and Difference (Jacques Derrida) Martian Timeslip (Philip K. Dick) Ringworld (Larry Niven) The Forever War (Joe Haldeman) The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) Finally, the Greek tragedies and Goethe's poetry are basically perfect.
on “Ask HN: What were your "life-changing" books?” ↗J.R.R. Tolkien: The lord of the Rings (lost count) Philip K. Dick: Ubik, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly, etc. too many to count (many more than twice) William Gibson: everything at least twice Neal Stephenson: Snow crash (three times, I think)…
on “Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?” ↗Philip K Dick - VALIS, Divine Invasion and (next) Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗