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: 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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NONFICTION
Released: July 20, 1988
"Basically a love story, then—quirky, alternately hopeful and bleak, sad and funny, quintessentially Philip K. Dick—with a less successful stab at social issues like juvenile deliquency, teen-age pregnancy, and the like."
Like last year's Mary and the Giant, yet another haunting mainstream novel unpublished during Dick's lifetime.
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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: 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: Feb. 24, 1995
"It's a satisfying picture, but Dick deserves more authoritative, less worshipful editing than he receives from Sutin."
A selection of previously unpublished, or obscurely published, autobiographical sketches, SF musings, philosophical essays, speeches, and journal excerpts.
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