The Outposter by Gordon R. Dickson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This isn't a bad book, but it's not a great book either. Above average? Earth is overpopulated -- has been for 100 years -- and has a lottery where the "winners" are turned into colonists who are shipped to Earth's colonies around the …
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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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On the Run by Gordon R. Dickson My rating: 3 of 5 stars This had the makings of a very good sci fi novel. In fact, I was going to give it five stars -- until I reached the ending, which was the most anticlimactic ending I've ever read! The book begins with Kil and …
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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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