Others: Overwhelmingly positive see https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2172516W/A_Scanner_Darkly
Genres: science fiction, mystery, graphic novel
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Richard Matheson
1954 · 162 pages · 10 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveSee work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL64225W
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Philip K. Dick
1969 · 212 pages · 10 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveNamed one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending, classic novel about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. “From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you’ll never be sure you’ve woken up from.”—Lev Grossman, Time Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter’s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all. “More brilliant than similar experiments conducted by Pynchon or DeLillo.”—Roberto Bolaño
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Tennessee Williams
1958 · 90 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveSee https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30279W/Suddenly_last_summer
Philip K. Dick
1968 · 210 pages · 12 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveIt was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!
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Joe Haldeman
1974 · 236 pages · 14 reviews
Others: Mostly positive"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable epic war story spanning relativistic space and time, The Forever War explores one soldier's experience as he is caught up in the brutal machinery of a war against an unknown and unknowable alien foe that reaches across the stars" -- The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...
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Anthony Burgess
1962 · 188 pages · 8 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveA Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English. According to Burgess, it was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks. In 2005, A Clockwork Orange was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The original manuscript of the book has been kept at McMaster University's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada since the institution purchased the documents in 1971. It is considered one of the most influential dystopian books.
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Loved itI could really get into the long grass about how the book is maybe the most personal, realistically autobiographical of all of Dick's work. It's my favorite Dick book, partly because I put the effort in to know more about the man himself.
Loved itthis is a surreal and uncomfortable place to be but I think the book does a great job of balancing that with some very funny dialogue and moments of empathy the themes explored in this book I think were very personal to PKD as he explains in an afterward you know his life people around him were affected by some of the things depicted in the book and I think that emotion really came through in the storytelling this book had a big impact on me
Loved itI'd recommend this for people who are maybe just starting to get into sci-fi because this is more of a thriller with sci-fi elements
