Showing posts with label Science-Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science-Fiction. Show all posts

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Philip K. Dick — Library of America



I already talked about how I loved the Library of America edition of the books of H.P. Lovecraft. For the 30th anniversary of Philip K. Dicks departure (see post before) it seems a good moment to suggest readers have a look at this beautiful edition, in three tomes of this great science-fiction writer's best novels.

The tomes are arranged in chronological order: Four Novels of the 1960's, Five Novels of the 1960's & 70s, Valis and Later Novels. Again the books are beautiful, with fine paper and page marker. I haven't finished the third tome but I'm really enjoying the authors crazy vision of the world, where reality is always different than what we expect. Essential reading for our paranoid 21st century.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Like tears in the rain


It is thirty years ago (on the 2nd of March 1982) that Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer passed away. He was the creator of strange, paranoid universes. His books have inspired many science fiction movies (the best being Bladerunner in my opinion).