The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Divine Invasion was my favorite of the VALIS trilogy, a trilogy I really haven't enjoyed as much as I do Dick's earlier works. This book is DENSE, folks! It's overtly religious in its themes, and it helps if one is familiar …
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The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick My rating: 4 of 5 stars As Philip K Dick's third novel, this is a pretty solid effort. More linear than later works, it's about Allen and Janet Purcell, who live in Newer York in 2114. It's been 130 years since a nuclear war has destroyed much …
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A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick My rating: 5 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed this somewhat dark book, and read it in under a day. It's similar to Ubik in some ways, but that's all I'll say about that. In this book, 14 people are stranded on a strange world called Delmak-O …
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The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well, The Cosmic Puppets certainly isn't Philip K Dick's best work, but it's among his earliest, so perhaps he was just getting his feet wet and hadn't established the maturity he displays in later works. The book is a story about a …
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The Zap Gun by Philip K. Dick My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was another crazy book (in a good way) by Philip K. Dick. It's more lucid and centered than many of his other (later) books. This was written in 1965, but is set in 2004. In this book, the Cold War still …
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