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I was really dissatisfied with Valis. How similar were the
two (quasi?) sequels? How's Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said?
So far my favorite PKD book is a collection of later stories,
_I Hope We Shall Arrive Soon_. In the introduction he talked
about how he wrote a scene in _Flow My Tears_, and a fan
pointed out the scene was basically a rewrite of something
from the book of Acts. In typical Dick fashion, this triggered
a brainstorm/ephiphany that that we were still actually in the
1st century AD, and the past 2,000 years of history was a lie
created by the devil to distract us from the approaching
apocalypse. Did he ever use this idea in anything?
― squirrel police, Sunday, 3 September 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Just heard about this:
http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0765316927.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V63356308_.jpg"Stuart Hadley is a young radio electronics salesman in early 1950s Oakland, California. He has what many would consider the ideal life; a nice house, a pretty wife, a decent job with prospects for advancement, but he still feels unfulfilled; something is missing from his life. Hadley is an angry young man—an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. He tries to fill his void first with drinking, and sex, and then with religious fanaticism, but nothing seems to be working, and it is driving him crazy. He reacts to the love of his wife and the kindness of his employer with anxiety and fear.
One of the earliest books that Dick ever wrote, and the only novel that has never been published, Voices from the Street is the story of Hadley’s descent into depression and madness, and out the other side."
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Street-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0765316927/
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 3 September 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link