Philip K. Dick

     






Philip K Dick was the first science-fiction author who forced
me to reconsider my conception of reality.  The book A
Scanner Darkly was such a great read that I would pigeonhole
friends while we were passing a bowl and read aloud to them
passages during my stoner years, living in a studio
apartment w/ two other guys & no job...  I read that damn
book fifty or more times, highlighted important passages,
and gave away several copies.  The same can be said for
Radio Free Albumeth, which I found a little bit more readable
than VALIS, albeit similar subject matter.  I credit my
minor schitzophrenic break directly to PKD, during the year
of which I read PKD, & only PKD.  His earlier science-fiction,
then his exegisis, then on to his short stories...  he was
as important to my imagination as he was to my religious
studies.  Not too many authors can pull that off.
         ~prairiewolf~