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Philip K. Dick: Four novels of the 1960s
by Philip K. Dick
I hadn't read any Dick since I was a teenager, so it was interesting to read him again. The writing itself is pretty bad, but it seemed like each novel got a little bit better (even as I was getting tired of Dick, in general). The earlier books (and especially The Man in the High Castle) seem to suffer from the need to end with a very profound BIG IDEA--something that sci-fi writers seem to find too often necessary. By the last two, though, this tendency had receded a little, and the ideas themselves were fascinating enough that I could overlook the sometimes wooden prose. I think I liked Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the best. I would give it 5 stars, maybe, with 3 for The Man in the High Castle and 4 each for The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Ubik.