Philip K Dick

jp_bl_68

I've seen several films based on Dick's books but I've never actually read any of them.

Any PKD fans here?

Do you have a favourite PKD book?

Where would you recommend a newbie start?

Trollslayer

Try this collection of short stories which includes "We can remember it for you wholesale".
Enjoy.

steve1221

I always found him a very hard read.
The stories aren't much like the films they makes.

richardb70

As a newbie myself, I started with:

Five Great Novels (Gollancz S.F.): Amazon.co.uk: Philip K. Dick: Books

Entertaining stuff and the price was a bargain.

captainarchive

That's a really good way to start, I've read 3 of the 5 in that collection:

MARTIAN TIME SLIP
UBIK
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

and enjoyed them a lot. I'd add The Man in the High Castle and Now Wait for Last Year to those already mentioned.

FruitBat

I've read quite a few over the years.

Favourites:
The Man in the High Castle
Eye in the Sky
Ubik

I read a couple recently that I was less impressed with (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Simulacra).

The short stories are usually quite entertaining. There is a 5 volume collection (The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Paycheck is a short story (in Volume I, Beyond Lies the Wub).

Billo

I've read almost all of Horselover Fat's novels
The usual suspects are ''Do andrids dream of electric sheep?''
''The man in the High Castle''
''A scanner Darkly''

pandemic

I've been reading Dick's recently, easily one of the greatest SF authors.
I started with his short story collection, the lengths vary. I find them an easy read. These are what got me into reading sci-fi (kicks the pants off regular fiction).
I've also read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, great books much better than the movie beats the Blade Runner movie.
Currently reading Ubik!, almost finished.

The 'full length' sci-fi by Dick can be a bit harder to follow, the writing is so detailed be it the characters or technology. I find difficult to distinguish whether it hard or soft sci-fi, probably because it's both.

Mr.D

Read most of Dick's stuff.

The short stories are very entertaining.

Valis and the Divine Invasion are terrific.

I like both his weird pseduo humanist trippy stuff and his traditional scifi ones,

Time out of Joint is a fave of mine , A Maze of Death is great too ( quite exciting for a Dick novel...hint...Lost)

bjd

As people have said, his short story collections are a good place to start: easy to read yet containing many of the darker elements of Dick's novels.
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and Martian Time-Slip are easily approachable too. A Scanner Darkly is a wonderful insight into the world of drug use and undercover police work.
For me, the most entertaining and challenging SF writer of all time.

Cheers
Brian