FICTION
Released: Oct. 15, 1962
"But it will disappoint greatly."
The teratological curiosity of the American reading public, whetted and abetted by the press, could have made this novel a sure best seller.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 22, 1968
"Even electric sheep could find greener pastures."
Mr. Dick's hero Deckard lives in a dying world where animals are a status symbol; you can dial an emotion to fit a mood and the Voigt-Kampff test for telling an android from its human counterpart appears to have become fallible.
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FICTION
Released: May 9, 1969
"Excedrin headache number 99."
Another of Mr. Dick's staggeringly complex futuramas in which a group of "anti-talents" (they negate telepathic and precognitive abilities) are caught up in an explosion, slowly taken back in time to 1939 and spend an amazing amount of energy trying to figure out if they're alive or dead and/or if there is a clever saboteur in their midst.
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FICTION
Released: July 24, 1970
"Psycho-theo-logistics, cloudy with conundrums, but it holds one."
A group of baldly hostile "misfits" on planet Delmak-O seem to be outward (or inward or merely sideways) bound.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1973
"As confusing as it sounds, but nonetheless intriguing."
The pace is furious, the plotting tortuous in this tale of a famous TV. performer who wakes up one day in a dingy hotel room to find that no one remembers him.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 21, 1976
"Flawed, almost too grim to take, but stunningly realized."
