Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick16 reviews Lawrence Sutin Da Capo Press, 2005 Excellent literary biography + A "Fat" Lot of Good All of His Talks with the "Divinity" Did for Dick + Very good biography of enigmatic often contradictory writer I happened upon the writing of Philip K. Dick many years before the Blade Runner fame. I was profoundly impressed by the raw paranoia, the questioning of what is real, and the real tension generated in the gut upon being drawn into the worlds of his characters. At the time I had no idea these ...             The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2: Breakfast at Twilight and other Stories Philip K. Dick Wildside Press, 2008 Edited and selected by noted scholar Gregg Rickman, The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume One: 1952-1953, and Volume Two: 1953-1954, encompasses a total of twenty-six stories from the early years of Philip K. Dick. With extensive story notes and introductions by Rickman, and packaged to belong on any shelf, The Early Work of Philip K. Dick promises an early peek into the many worlds created by ...             Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?212 reviews Philip K. Dick Del Rey, 1996 Wonderful book + perfect + Dreaming in Binary: you'll either love it or hate it + Valuing Fake Animals Above Fake Humans             Virtual Light67 reviews William Gibson Spectra, 1994 w0w + Bridge series + Very Satisfying Story If you are a science fiction fan or a futurist of any sort or just like fiction, you need to read this book. I could write a pious review of the book or praise the author to the heavens, both would be justified. However it's very simple, you need to read this book and see how many people have ...             Burning Chrome69 reviews William Gibson Eos, 2003 Burning Chrome Shines Bright + A turning point + Solid, introductory selections + all wonderful but not all cyberpunk + worth it for "Hinterlands" alone             The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard7 reviews J. G. Ballard Picador, 2001 Some of the best short fiction + Great collection of short stories + The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard + Food for Thought             Cocaine Nights23 reviews J. G. Ballard Counterpoint, 1999 Devilishly charming tale of evil masking as good intentions + Good writing saves a weak plot. + "Crossing frontiers is my profession." + Bobby Crawfords biggest fan + This is modern literature             The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980-82 Philip K. Dick Underwood Books, 2008 In this sixth entry in the series of Dick’s letters, the great sci-fi author continues his metaphysical and religious quest initiated by the Valis visions of 1974. In these letters to friends, fans, agents, and other sci-fi writers, Dick speculates on the visionary and archetypal material that intruded into his novels in the latter part of his life, which marked a turning point in his ...             Concrete Island: A Novel20 reviews J. G. Ballard Picador, 2001 I am the island + Spend some time on this "Island" + A revelatory experience + islands of the mind             Millennium People2 reviews J.G. Ballard HarperPerennial, 2004 Forget Foucalt and Baudrillard: Read Ballard + Still at (or near) the Peak of his Powers If you have already read "High Rise" or "Running Wild" you will easily guess the course of events in J.G. Ballard's "Millenium People:" a seemingly docile and idyllic community of educated professionals willingly regresses from the neurotic to the primitive, revealing itself capable of committing ...             The Cosmic Puppets: A Novel15 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 2003 Archetypes a-plenty! PKD wrote very little pure fantasy, but when he did, he tapped into something raw & primal. (See his short story "Upon the Dull Earth" for an especially powerful example.) This early work is considered lesser PKD, a first & tentative exploration of themes he would develop more fully in subsequent ...             The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 1)10 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel, 2002 Essential reading for everyone (and everything) + Not Free SF Reader + Signs Of What Would Come + Sci-Fi from the Cold War             The Drowned World (Vintage Berkley F655)2 reviews J. G. Ballard Berkley Publishing Corp., 1962 Sweet feverish dream + drowning dreams I loved this book only recently read even if its writing is up to '60s. The world is covered by water, cities are blue lagoons surrounded by jungles and reptiles and iguanas. Men are dying: everywhere the temperature rises and the sun becomes bigger and bigger in the eyes of the survivors... ...             Spook Country156 reviews William Gibson Berkley Trade, 2008 so real... + Still good + Cyberpunk meets John le Carré, but not Tom Clancy. So real after these last money melting weeks. A must read to get away from it all.             Neuromancer452 reviews William Gibson Ace Hardcover, 2004 Still Good After All These Years + If Only Gibson Had Continued With This Story... + Lives up to the hype I first read Gibson's "Neuromancer" when it first came out (about 24 years ago) and really enjoyed it. I just finished reading it again, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it's weathered the intervening decades very well. This book created a genre by envisioning a wired world when, at the ...             The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch64 reviews Philip K. Dick Vintage, 1991 What stigmata do you carry? + Philip K. Dick at his psychotic best + Highly recommended, however... + Difficult but interesting once you grok it + What is real and what is the construct?             The Philip K. Dick Reader27 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel, 2001 Nicely complements Library of America volumes + Solid collection of some of Dick's more popular stories including some made into films + Not Free SF Reader + Good enough + A superior read             Crash (Full Screen Edition)995 reviews Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock Lions Gate Films, 2005 Great film, will challenge your views on a variety of hot topics! + I was skeptical, but... Now, this is one helluva movie! I watched 'Crash' again this weekend and I was as compelled now as when I first saw it. This film challenges you, especially if you grew up in the U.S. You know the movies that have you guessing until the end? Think you got it all figured out, only to find out you ...             Idoru142 reviews William Gibson Berkley Trade, 2003 Sci-Fi Globalization, Convergence Between Asia and the West + for jaded futurists in search of "that physical thing" In my experience William Gibson never disappoints and Idoru is perhaps his best work. Blasphemy I know to say that it is superior to Neuromancer but I'm gonna call it like I see it. The main reason I feel that Idoru is his best is because of his unparalleled vision of what the world may look like ...             The Eye of The Sibyl and Other Classic Stories (The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 5)10 reviews Philip K. Dick Citadel, 2000 If I could only recommend 2 Phil Dick books -- + Not Free SF Reader + Some of Dick's most personal works + Later but not necessarily better