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 Electric Church by Jeff Somers My rating: 4 of 5 stars I've read a lot of mixed reviews of The Electric Church, which surprised me because I thought it was really good. Some of the reviewers out there really hated it, thought of it as unoriginal, thought it was stereotypical cyberpunk, were bored, thought …
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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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VALIS by Philip K. Dick My rating: 1 of 5 stars THIS ISN'T SCIENCE FICTION!!! THIS IS THEOLOGICAL CLAPTRAP DISGUISED AS SCIENCE FICTION AND IT SUCKS! This book is SO boring, I couldn't get past page 65. Don't get me wrong -- I love Philip K. Dick, particularly his works from the 1950s and 60s, …
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