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I wish they would have made this a thing in the Villeneuve Dune films.

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I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

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Nice to see everyone's great PKD recommendations. Of those mentioned, all of which are excellent, I think The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Penultimate Truth, Ubik, or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are all great starting points that are very representative of his thematic preoccupations. Other popular titles like The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and the VALIS Trilogy are also fantastic, but kind of their own trips within the world of PKD. I would check these out only if you like one or more of the introductory titles.

Some outliers to recommend which haven't been mentioned are Now Wait for Last Year and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said because besides being amongst my favorites of his, they deal with mind/reality/time-altering drugs and all have eerie parallels to the present day (alongside The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, the GOAT, and A Scanner Darkly). The cool thing about PKD is that if you like his stuff, there's a bunch of other novels and short stories to choose from. Speed tends to make one insanely prolific (as it also did for my favorite band, The Fall, and my favorite director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder).

Ursula K. LeGuin rules (loved The Left Hand of Darkness when read for a college freshman course). Other vintage SF writers I'd recommend (besides the aforementioned Harlan Ellison) are Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination), Theodore Sturgeon (More Human Than Human), and Michael Moorcock (The Final Programme).

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Along with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears, the Policemen Said is my favorite PKD novel. I really love his short stories too. I should give The Man in the High Castle another chance. That’s the only PKD I didn’t enjoy.

Great to see a fellow fan of The Fall in here.

I need to check out The Stars My Destination, as I’m a big fan of The Demolished Man.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was the first PKD book I read and also the first one I re-read. It's a favorite of mine because he'd really refined his style by that point and it has it all (drugs, questioning reality and identity, paranoia, etc.). Plus, it's the most Hitchcockian of his novels, the "wrong man" trope and all that. It's also namedropped in the Tubeway Army banger "Please Listen to the Sirens" (which was recently used in that Carhartt WIP Inshin Denshin video).

Bang fucking bang... the Mighty Fall.

The Demolished Man is excellent, and as a fan I can promise that you'd be super stoked on The Stars My Destination.

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Lathe of Heaven is my fav Leguin, Radio Free Albemuth is my fav PKD. The latter is like a demo/outtake version on the Valis trilogy, written prior but published after his death.

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Gabe and Zac are pretty whatever.

Can't believe they didn't put Matt Milatano on. His part was better that a big portion of the video.

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Thanks and gnars to everyone who replied with their PKD recommendations

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I wish they would have made this a thing in the Villeneuve Dune films.

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I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

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Nice to see everyone's great PKD recommendations. Of those mentioned, all of which are excellent, I think The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Penultimate Truth, Ubik, or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are all great starting points that are very representative of his thematic preoccupations. Other popular titles like The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and the VALIS Trilogy are also fantastic, but kind of their own trips within the world of PKD. I would check these out only if you like one or more of the introductory titles.

Some outliers to recommend which haven't been mentioned are Now Wait for Last Year and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said because besides being amongst my favorites of his, they deal with mind/reality/time-altering drugs and all have eerie parallels to the present day (alongside The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, the GOAT, and A Scanner Darkly). The cool thing about PKD is that if you like his stuff, there's a bunch of other novels and short stories to choose from. Speed tends to make one insanely prolific (as it also did for my favorite band, The Fall, and my favorite director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder).

Ursula K. LeGuin rules (loved The Left Hand of Darkness when read for a college freshman course). Other vintage SF writers I'd recommend (besides the aforementioned Harlan Ellison) are Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination), Theodore Sturgeon (More Human Than Human), and Michael Moorcock (The Final Programme).

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Along with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears, the Policemen Said is my favorite PKD novel. I really love his short stories too. I should give The Man in the High Castle another chance. That’s the only PKD I didn’t enjoy.

Great to see a fellow fan of The Fall in here.

I need to check out The Stars My Destination, as I’m a big fan of The Demolished Man.

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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was the first PKD book I read and also the first one I re-read. It's a favorite of mine because he'd really refined his style by that point and it has it all (drugs, questioning reality and identity, paranoia, etc.). Plus, it's the most Hitchcockian of his novels, the "wrong man" trope and all that. It's also namedropped in the Tubeway Army banger "Please Listen to the Sirens" (which was recently used in that Carhartt WIP Inshin Denshin video).

Bang fucking bang... the Mighty Fall.

The Demolished Man is excellent, and as a fan I can promise that you'd be super stoked on The Stars My Destination.

I just ordered it. I may be putting it on my reading list next after I finish Ubik. When Gravity Fails will have to wait.

I named my electronic music project I Dream of Wires after the Gary Numan song, but not so much because of the song. I could see it being a PKD book title.

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Gabe and Zac are pretty whatever.

Can't believe they didn't put Matt Milatano on. His part was better that a big portion of the video.

Agree about Gabe and not sure why Militano didn't make the cut (although it's been speculated quite a bit on here), but I'm a Zak fan.

While his part in the Sci Fi video wasn't his best stuff, it has its moments and I enjoyed seeing his skating edited by Matt King and Luke Murphy.

His earlier Late Night Stars/Chase Walker parts are really sick. He skates fast, has great style, doesn't skate switch, sweats a lot, dresses like a school shooter or a grimy Y2K Electroclash fan... what's not to love?

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I wish they would have made this a thing in the Villeneuve Dune films.

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I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

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Nice to see everyone's great PKD recommendations. Of those mentioned, all of which are excellent, I think The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Penultimate Truth, Ubik, or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are all great starting points that are very representative of his thematic preoccupations. Other popular titles like The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and the VALIS Trilogy are also fantastic, but kind of their own trips within the world of PKD. I would check these out only if you like one or more of the introductory titles.

Some outliers to recommend which haven't been mentioned are Now Wait for Last Year and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said because besides being amongst my favorites of his, they deal with mind/reality/time-altering drugs and all have eerie parallels to the present day (alongside The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, the GOAT, and A Scanner Darkly). The cool thing about PKD is that if you like his stuff, there's a bunch of other novels and short stories to choose from. Speed tends to make one insanely prolific (as it also did for my favorite band, The Fall, and my favorite director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder).

Ursula K. LeGuin rules (loved The Left Hand of Darkness when read for a college freshman course). Other vintage SF writers I'd recommend (besides the aforementioned Harlan Ellison) are Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination), Theodore Sturgeon (More Human Than Human), and Michael Moorcock (The Final Programme).

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Along with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears, the Policemen Said is my favorite PKD novel. I really love his short stories too. I should give The Man in the High Castle another chance. That’s the only PKD I didn’t enjoy.

Great to see a fellow fan of The Fall in here.

I need to check out The Stars My Destination, as I’m a big fan of The Demolished Man.

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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was the first PKD book I read and also the first one I re-read. It's a favorite of mine because he'd really refined his style by that point and it has it all (drugs, questioning reality and identity, paranoia, etc.). Plus, it's the most Hitchcockian of his novels, the "wrong man" trope and all that. It's also namedropped in the Tubeway Army banger "Please Listen to the Sirens" (which was recently used in that Carhartt WIP Inshin Denshin video).

Bang fucking bang... the Mighty Fall.

The Demolished Man is excellent, and as a fan I can promise that you'd be super stoked on The Stars My Destination.

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I just ordered it. I may be putting it on my reading list next after I finish Ubik. When Gravity Fails will have to wait.

I named my electronic music project I Dream of Wires after the Gary Numan song, but not so much because of the song. I could see it being a PKD book title.

That's awesome. Get hyped for Gully Foyle.

Did you know that "I Dream of Wires" was covered by Robert Palmer on his best album, IMHO, Clues)?

Numan also played synths on a different album track. Apparently, he found The Pleasure Principle and Telekon simply irresistible. Oof.

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I wish they would have made this a thing in the Villeneuve Dune films.

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I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

[close]

Nice to see everyone's great PKD recommendations. Of those mentioned, all of which are excellent, I think The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Penultimate Truth, Ubik, or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are all great starting points that are very representative of his thematic preoccupations. Other popular titles like The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and the VALIS Trilogy are also fantastic, but kind of their own trips within the world of PKD. I would check these out only if you like one or more of the introductory titles.

Some outliers to recommend which haven't been mentioned are Now Wait for Last Year and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said because besides being amongst my favorites of his, they deal with mind/reality/time-altering drugs and all have eerie parallels to the present day (alongside The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, the GOAT, and A Scanner Darkly). The cool thing about PKD is that if you like his stuff, there's a bunch of other novels and short stories to choose from. Speed tends to make one insanely prolific (as it also did for my favorite band, The Fall, and my favorite director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder).

Ursula K. LeGuin rules (loved The Left Hand of Darkness when read for a college freshman course). Other vintage SF writers I'd recommend (besides the aforementioned Harlan Ellison) are Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination), Theodore Sturgeon (More Human Than Human), and Michael Moorcock (The Final Programme).

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Along with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears, the Policemen Said is my favorite PKD novel. I really love his short stories too. I should give The Man in the High Castle another chance. That’s the only PKD I didn’t enjoy.

Great to see a fellow fan of The Fall in here.

I need to check out The Stars My Destination, as I’m a big fan of The Demolished Man.

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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was the first PKD book I read and also the first one I re-read. It's a favorite of mine because he'd really refined his style by that point and it has it all (drugs, questioning reality and identity, paranoia, etc.). Plus, it's the most Hitchcockian of his novels, the "wrong man" trope and all that. It's also namedropped in the Tubeway Army banger "Please Listen to the Sirens" (which was recently used in that Carhartt WIP Inshin Denshin video).

Bang fucking bang... the Mighty Fall.

The Demolished Man is excellent, and as a fan I can promise that you'd be super stoked on The Stars My Destination.

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I just ordered it. I may be putting it on my reading list next after I finish Ubik. When Gravity Fails will have to wait.

I named my electronic music project I Dream of Wires after the Gary Numan song, but not so much because of the song. I could see it being a PKD book title.

That's awesome. Get hyped for Gully Foyle.

Did you know that "I Dream of Wires" was covered by Robert Palmer on his best album, IMHO, Clues)?

Numan also played synths on a different album track. Apparently, he found The Pleasure Principle and Telekon simply irresistible. Oof.


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I just got it in the mail. I’m excited to dive into it!

I did read about the cover but I forgot all about it. I should check out that album. The only thing I know about Robert Palmer is his huge hit and the Ciccone Youth cover.

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YouTube threw this on for me after watching a couple other skate videos. Enjoyed it more than I did the first time.