FICTION
Released: June 5, 1981
"With profuse, muddled plotting in the Dick manner—though without any of the usual Dick playfulness—this is destined, perhaps, to be pored over in seminaries; but it's far, far too heavy to attract many mainstream sf readers."
FICTION
Released: May 28, 1982
"Pike's mysterious career should find this a quietly stimulating, if thoroughly depressing, reconstruction."
Dick's death a little over a week ago may mean that this will be his last published novel; and, ironically, it is the one in which he most completely abandons sciencefiction for mainstream theological writing.
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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This unpublished (c. 1976) semi-autobiographical novel, like The Divine Invasion (1981) and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982), presents Dick (1928-82) in his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.
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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).
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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.
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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Another—and perhaps the best—of the late Dick's heretofore unpublished mainstream novels: the simple, searing tale of a small-town girl trying to battle her way out of a straitjacketed existence.
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