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Old 04-28-2013, 05:20 PM   #31
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Thank you! I can't get ebooks of the two collections you mentioned, but I got one collection which includes some of the stories you recommended. I'll try reading them when I finish with reading all of PKD I can lay my hands on

I never read Notes from Underground. What I read by Dostoevsky never seemed SF to me. Thanks for the hint.
As for Dick, I just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and started now The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. I also got Time Out of Joint, so I'll be reading for sure soon. Thank you!
Baen books has them in non DRM'ed formats, including Mobi and Epub.
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Old 04-29-2013, 09:19 AM   #32
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Baen books has them in non DRM'ed formats, including Mobi and Epub.
On Baen's site, apart from monthly bundles, I can only see We the Underpeople and When the People Fell. Bot priced at 6$ but it says "Not Currently Available".
Anyway, I'll read first the stories I have
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Thank you, I tried literature map, but I have a feeling it gives rather strange recommendations. I think it's more based on what people reading PKD read than on similraty of those authors.
Yes, it's an interesting use of a clever algorithm, but I personally think it is not very useful overall.
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On Baen's site, apart from monthly bundles, I can only see We the Underpeople and When the People Fell. Bot priced at 6$ but it says "Not Currently Available".
Anyway, I'll read first the stories I have
Sorry, they were available the last I checked..
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I read sci-fi almost exclusively in my teens and early 20's. I think a good way to find authors you like in the genre is short stories-there are many anthologies out there, and you can sample a lot of writers quickly. Not to mention the format of short stories, if you can't get into one, drop it and read on!
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It has to be said that starting to read Philip K. Dick by opening Ubik is like starting to explore the solar system by flying to Pluto.

I've not read it since 1978, but the teenage me was blown away by it. I've been struggling to think of a book that's like it. Again, I'd have to reread it, but Dick's own A Scanner Darkly also had an effect on me.

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