Three Early Novels: "The Man Who Japed", "Dr. Futurity", "Vulcan's Hammer"

Author - Philip K. Dick ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Gollancz was reviewed on 5-Nov-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Three Early Novels: "The Man Who Japed", "Dr. Futurity", "Vulcan's Hammer" by Gollancz. I´m a huge fan of science fiction and Philip Dick certainly belongs in the pantheon of science fiction writers. He was also a certifiable lunatic and published some unreadable trash. His best efforts however, were top drawer. We´ll Remember it for you Wholesale (Total Recall), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner) and Minority Report were developed into blockbuster motion pictures.

This work is a compilation of three very early novellas written by Dick. The Man who Japed, Dr. Futurity and Vulcan´s Hammer each run about 140 pages. They are easilt comprehensible (unlike much of Dick´s later work) and are outstanding stories, especially the latter two. Dr. Futurity is the type of time travel work that requires serious thought to keep a handle on.

I consider Dick to be very similar to Frank Herbert in that they both produced brilliant work for mass consumption, but also very philosophical and deep efforts which I am simply not able to get my mind around. These early stories by Philip Dick were of the former variety and quite enjoyable.¤

2) Paperback Book Three Early Novels: "The Man Who Japed", "Dr. Futurity", "Vulcan's Hammer" by Gollancz. At the beginning of his career, Philip K. Dick, whose later work won him widespread acclaim as the world´s greatest sf writer, wrote a number of short novels which were published as paperback originals back-to-back in dual volumes with works by writers who were then more famous. Considerably more straightforward than his later novels, these stories are nevertheless unmistakably the work of the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik in their quirky exuberance and originality.¤

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