The Ultimate Philip K. Dick Reading Guide

In my opinion, of course, this is almost but not quite his best work, but more importantly, it will give you that lovely bounce around the timeline of his writing.

yeah, Maze of Death, very underrated, but one of my favorites.

Clans of the Alain Moon, because I think it's important to go into one of those really weird dodgy ones, really exciting books early on.

If there's one book in this pile that I would recommend to you, it's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Unlike most of these books, this one has an elevator pitch, a structure that you can cling on to for the entire book.

Eye in the Sky is 195 1955 and I think it's the best book from the early days probably.

I also got very lucky with the dispersion of his best books or the ones that I enjoyed the most. Martian time slip, A Maze of Death, Eye in the Sky, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich all popped up every five or six books.

I could have picked Clans of the Alfane Moon, The Penultimate Truth, or now wait for last year for this slot, but this one just sunk in a little bit more for some reason.

the man in the high castle, the Hugo award winner that kind of put him on the map.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich. I predict that this will be many people's favorites. It's right up there among the afficionados.

This is another one that has a chance of being the best one of the whole damn bunch. If there is a quintessential Philip K. Dick book, this is probably it.

Val is the melding of Phil's version of his own reality and metafictional storytelling at its finest. It's a book that could only have been written at this point in his life after his brain has gone through a gauntlet of meat grinders.

It's here on merit. I think it's horribly underrated and I think it will fit perfectly between the three stigmata of Palmer Eldrich and UBIC.