Beyond Electric Sheep

I’ve been digging into Phillip K. Dick’s back catalog and finding a few wacked-out gems. Much of his work focuses on and draws inspiration from his periods of on-again off-again drug use. They’re difficult and flawed reads at times, but the concepts are just as fresh as they were almost a half century ago.

A few titles I’ve enjoyed are:

• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - a psychedelic odyssey of hallucinations-within-hallucinations
• Ubik - A layered and labyrinthine space opera
• A Scanner Darkly - I love me some Keanu but the book is better

Of course, if you haven’t read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that’s not to be missed.