Having here already cited Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke,en, Julio Verne, Aldous Huxley and indirectly on the basis of their political fictions, also on George Orwell, and adding this entry dedicated to Philip K. Dick We can almost bury the key to the sanctum sanctorum of world classical science fiction, for lack of writing an entry about HG Wells… Everything will come.
As you can see, I am not much about respecting chronological labels and other nonsense of literature as a field of study. These guys wrote the best science fiction As this genre began to find a fertile space full of avid readers, about what year they were born and what current they followed, it is supposedly official data that many of these monsters of the letters would disassemble one by one.
Yes, literature is a contradiction and overcoming damn labels that do nothing more than constrain our imagination. I only recommend that you read them in the order that you see fit and you will thus reach the limbo of the world CiFi.
And already focused on the case of Philip K. Dick , we meet a fiction of the brief. Science fiction finds a perfect fit in a novel or a story. Good old Dick must have liked more the power of the brief, the possibilities of the story to offer suggestive open endings or to close the supposed scientific assumptions with brilliant hypotheses.
Many of the CiFi stories that you have been able to read loose around in magazines and others may bear the signature of this particular author who ended his days disoriented among his own fictions. Without a doubt, an ending as decadent as it is glorious for a writer of this genre.
Top 3 best Philip K. Dick novels
The man in the castle
An interesting uchrony in which Dick entangles us with a special magic. A world that was not and that at times seems chaotically built in an improvised way by God or by whoever did not have planned this plan B of History. Do you know when you're in a movie and suddenly you notice connection losses, pixelated areas and so on?
Something like this is the new reality of this uchrony, a kind of world in a mosaic that seems capable of de-fragmenting. So much for the substance, because the plot itself, the basis, is very simple. Germany won the Second World War.
A new international treaty has divided the United States between the new winning allies, Germany and Japan. What happens on the basis of that parallel world, that slip that has turned everything upside down, connects with what previously indicated to you the sensations of a world through which that other parallel truth of the true story seems to be seen against the light.
Nick and the Glimmung
Why not flag a junior novel as a great book by this author? Considering writing science fiction for children and adolescents is extremely interesting in order to ensure that that child fantasizes, has fun and begins to think about basic abstractions for more consistent thinking.
In this novel we meet a very unique planet Earth. It is about the planet Earth of Nick, a boy enchanted with his beloved pet, a cat. The problem is that cats, as well as dogs or any other pet are not allowed on that supposed planet Earth from some past or future time. Nick has no choice but to find a new place, a planet where he can take care of his pet as he deserves.
But it is not always easy to find the precise coordinates of the best planet where to find peace and be happy. In the end, the planet that awaits them is full of new dangers, immersed in an endless war and where every stranger becomes an enemy.
A science fiction story with an undeniable ethical contribution about good and evil. A fantasy that will captivate the little ones while guiding them towards that necessary appreciation of the good of others, be they person or animal. A recommendable story in this second life that the Minotauro publishing house grants for readers in Spanish.
Ubik
I must admit that when a good friend passed this book to me one summer, I had to give up the idea of ​​taking it to the pool to read it while I was watching a girl taking a dip in the pool. To read this book it is necessary to conserve all the blood in the brain.
One of the magical aspects of Dick can be rooted in his mind, how to say..., divergent, since this word is used so much. His ease in separating that light that depersonalizes the individual would make this almost hallucinogenic novel possible.
What greater depersonalization than death itself? Glen Runciter may be dead, or maybe the others are. It's not about guessing like the movie Sixth Sense. The proposal goes much further, we find a disconcerting metaphysics about death or life and real doubts about our more than possible ubiquity between this and the other world, whatever it may be.
Other Recommended Books by Philip K. Dick
The exegesis
Authors like Dick are reread over time as more than just writers. In the mind of this creator, imagination is transformed into that kind of wisdom that escapes the parameters or vectors of the most exquisite and sophisticated science. Dick dives to the abyssal depths of intelligence, perhaps to the soul where the key to our union with everything, with the stardust that we were and still are, may be.
Dick's Exegesis is made up of thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, portions of diaries, letters, and novel outlines. It is the definitive work, magnificent and full of imagination, by an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time and the relationships between the human and the divine. Edited and prefaced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, it is the definitive presentation of Philip K. Dick's brilliant and epic work.
In The Exegesis, Dick documents his efforts over eight years to understand what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." Dick attempts to write through entries that sometimes span hundreds of pages to work his way to the core of a cosmic mystery that tested his imaginative and inventive powers to the very limit, and it's all on top of multiple revisions to rule out one theory after another, to the mix between dreams and visionary experiences that occurred to him in the meantime to end up uniting it all in his last three novels known as the Sivainvi trilogy.
In this book, Jackson and Lethem act as guides, taking the reader through The Exegesis while establishing connections with the momentous moments in Dick's life and work.
The broken bubble
A disruptive work by a Dick prior to his emergence as the author of science fiction works between dystopia and paranoia ...
DJ Jim Briskin, his former wife Pat, and Art and Rachael's teenage marriage are four lost souls, capable of irrational and sometimes violent acts. Jim still loves his old wife, he loves classical music and rock and roll. Pat doesn't love anyone. Art and Rachael love Jim because they hear him on the radio. Jim, for his part, is somewhat considered a father figure to Art and Rachael, who is pregnant.
After Art is seduced by Pat, it falls to Jim and Rachael to save both themselves and their former partners. But life is chaotic and brutal, and even acts done with the best of intentions can have the opposite effect ...
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