It’s been around 10 years since I first read Martian Time-Slip at the age of eighteen. That novel had such a profound effect on me that it motivated me to track down copies of more than 50 novels, collections of short stories and miscellaneous other things by the great man, who died around six months after my birth, in 1982. The work of PKD has had such a profound effect, not only on my own writing, but on my thinking, that it’s hard to know what to say about it. I have written reviews of 8-10 of PKD’s books, but I’m not exactly planning on reviewing them all. I do plan to write a few more PKD reviews, but only on his novels that particularly interest me. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer and The Man in the High Castle spring to mind as books I ought to re-read and review. I’m pretty proud of my reviews of Martian Time-Slip, Ubik and to a lesser extent VALIS (the last of which I have come to dislike).
Recently I was lucky enough to correspond with PKD’s fifth and final wife, Tessa Dick, who has recently published The Owl in Daylight, the long-unwritten novel that was to be a follow on from VALIS and The Divine Invasion.
You can read my reviews of various books by PKD (and Tessa Dick) by clicking on the Philip K. Dick category on the bottom right side of this page.
This will be updated shortly.
