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I read this book as part of our PKD Project. We read one story and then watched the matching episode of the newly made series. Like this we could judge the movie version compared to the originals. Do I have so say anything about the quality of PKDs stories? No, I don't think so. Dick is timeless, this book prooves it and the series does as well. The topics are still important to the human race, we're still dealing with problems PKD addresses.

Twisty, weird, horror-y, Twilight Zone-esque short stories from one of my fave sci-fi novelists. This is an interesting collection because there is a little preface before each story by the TV show episode script writer, discussing their inspirations from and adaptation of the stories. I enjoyed these stories, and I'll watch the show now, but I think this particular edition of the stories may be enjoyed more if you've seen the show.

I enjoyed half of the short stories, and found the rest difficult to get through. I‘m starting to realise I‘m not the biggest fan of short stories collections in general, so I‘m not sure this is a fault of the book but rather that I‘m just picky.

“Right from the start, I was attracted to the underlying theme of losing one‘s self in another reality.”

Just started reading this, and going in totally blind. Fingers crossed I enjoy this 🤞🏻

#shortstories #anthology

This super quick read has me excited to watch the series—and I‘m not much of a TV watcher. I had read one of these before (The Hanging Stranger). All of these stories are good.

It‘s 8am and I am reading in bed with a cat and coffee! What was supposed to be a very busy day has collapsed under the rain. Garden work day postponed til tomorrow, so I had to postpone the fruit tree committee as well (I don‘t have shed access, it‘s open during work days), kid 2 was scheduled to run the open mile at a track meet this morning but apparently there is no open mile so no run for him, he may still have an eagle project to attend.

Starting something new! In other news, I can‘t access my Litsy profile—it‘s blank! So frustrating.