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.
Read full book review >
FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 1985
"Its strongest appeal in 1985 is likely to be its sketchy but memorable re-creation of the real ambiance of the war and postwar years—an era that popular myth has already eroded into a series of "Happy Days" clich‚s."
The diffidence of the title is appropriate: this is a subtle, minimalist portrait of two American couples circa 1953 by the late Dick—a writer best known for his sardonic, pyrotechnic science fiction.
Read full book review >
NONFICTION
Released: April 28, 1987
"It's a pity it took 30 years for his novel to see the light of day."
Another—and perhaps the best—of the late Dick's heretofore unpublished mainstream novels: the simple, searing tale of a small-town girl trying to battle her way out of a straitjacketed existence.
Read full book review >
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.
Read full book review >
FICTION
Released: Jan. 8, 1985
"Well-constructed, absorbing at first, later somberly single-minded: a bleak and utterly depressing statement."
This unpublished (c. 1976) semi-autobiographical novel, like The Divine Invasion (1981) and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), presents Dick (1928-82) in his latter-day role as a religious explicator; and formulates, in science-fictional guise, his notions on the identity and purpose of God—all set against the familiar Dick backdrop of creeping fascism, thought control and governmental paranoia.
Read full book review >
FICTION
Released: March 1, 1985
"The ironic tone helps a little—but all in all this is a thin, sluggish, and chat-heavy nonentity: for fans only."
A hardworking but meandering and mercilessly padded yam, with previous appearances as a serial (1965-66) and a mass-market paperback (1967).
Read full book review >
