The Rabbit’s March Hare personae means he’s still waiting for his copy of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice (tomorrow! tomorrow!). In the meantime, we’re reading the reviews. As usual, novelist/reviewer Walter Kirn shines a light. He’s an admirer. Even Salon’s Laura Miller, who so hated Against the Day, finds the latest to…
Pynchon This, Pynchon That
Reviewers struggle with Thomas Pynchon. You will, too.
August 24th, 2009 · No Comments
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Time Pieces
Days of future past in the science fiction of Philip K. Dick
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
…other psychological states figure in, notably schizophrenia. Dick was a heavy abuser of amphetamines and as he progressed into the ‘70s, questions of sanity dominated his work.
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Back To the Future
The precognizant and paranoid fiction of Philip K. Dick.
May 4th, 2008 · No Comments
We have seen the future, thanks to science fiction author Philip K. Dick, and it looks like the present… even when it’s set in the past. No, we don’t fly around it rocket-powered hovercraft, there are no colonies on the moon let alone Mars and we don’t carry around laser…
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