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• PaulHoule · Apr 12, 2023 · Mentions

  It is here. There was a post today about someone who trained an LLM on chat logs from his college days and was able to reconstruct that kind of conversation. I think of We can build you by Phillip K. Dick or the early version of “Here After” from the Hechee Saga books by Pohl. People cloning your voice and scamming your family, friends and business associates is a clear and present…

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• shervinafshar · Apr 13, 2025 · Mentions

  Most of the above are his titles. Some which were published in serialized form before being published in a single volume (Martian Time-Slip and We Can Build You) had different titles. Letters, manuscripts, and publication notes are helpful to shed some light on this matter; e.g. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer was regularly referred to as the "Archer novel"…

  on “Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)” ↗
• DonHopkins · Dec 21, 2019 · Mentions

  Do you mean the President Rudy Kalbfleisch simulacrum who keeps breaking down in "The Simulacra", or the President Abraham Lincoln simulacrum who doesn't want to be sold in "We Can Build You"? Or do you mean the world has gone full blown "Faith of our Fathers" where the government is putting hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply to keep us from discovering the truth about our glorious…

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• sbf501 · Oct 30, 2022 · Critical

  …technology, and then there is reality that is just bent and distorted psychologically (VALIS, Palmer Eldritch, Martian Time Slip, ...). There's a big blob of boring books in the middle, in my opinion, like "We Can Build You", "The Crack in Space", and "Now Wait for Last Year". But what I've found most fascinating is watching his progression (descent) into darker and darker work. It was also a weird experience reading so…

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• bookofjoe · Apr 13, 2025 · Mentions

  …Castle Martian Time-Slip The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Clans of the Alphane Moon The Simulacra Now Wait for Last Year Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)/Blade Runner (1982) Ubik We Can Build You Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said A Scanner Darkly The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Radio Free Albemuth

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• atombender · Apr 13, 2025 · Mentions

  …Timothy Archer: "Bishop Timothy Archer * Ubik: "Death of an Anti-Watcher" * Martian Time-Slip: "Goodmember Arnie Kott of Mars" (also serialized as "All We Marsmen" before getting its current title) * We Can Build You: "The First in Your Family" * A Maze of Death: "The Hour of the TENCH" * Counterclock World: "The Dead Grow Young" My main source here is Lawrence Sutin's excellent "Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip…

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• atombender · Apr 14, 2025 · Mentions

  In total, I count 14 books with titles chosen by the publisher/editor: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dr. Bloodmoney The Simulacrum Ubik We Can Build You Martian Time-Slip The Transmigration of Timothy Archer The Divine Invasion A Maze of Death Counterclock World Radio Free Albemuth Solar Lottery The Zap Gun [1] The…

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• shervinafshar · Apr 14, 2025 · Mentions

  …Time-Slip X The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch X Clans of the Alphane Moon X The Simulacra X Now Wait for Last Year O Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)/Blade Runner (1982) O Ubik O We Can Build You X Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said X A Scanner Darkly O The Transmigration of Timothy Archer O Radio Free Albemuth So..."most" of what exactly?

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• PaulHoule · Dec 22, 2017 · Mentions

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Build_You

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