tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post6064142325807555821..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: It's Philip K. Dick's BirthdayAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-12394155454478513352007-12-16T21:26:00.000-06:002007-12-16T21:26:00.000-06:00Took me a while to locate the magazine in the accu...Took me a while to locate the magazine in the accumulation. The story is "Out in the Garden," from the August 1953 issue of <I>Fantasy Fiction</I>. I was into mythology as a kid, so the story seemed very cool to me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-62173678169008859272007-12-16T20:51:00.000-06:002007-12-16T20:51:00.000-06:00I'm not a big fan of Dick's early short stories, a...I'm not a big fan of Dick's early short stories, and I think there are a lot better line by line writers in the field, but, like Philip Jose Farmer, the guy was a genius. He had ideas that no one else had and insights into them that no one else had. Novels were his best, and my favorite is THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE. SCANNER DARKLY is a brilliant book, TRANSMIGRAION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER is great, and certainly some of the short stories are aces. STIGMATA a good book. I was also fond of THE MARTIAN TIME SLIP.<BR/>JoeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-26717526767976102802007-12-16T20:29:00.000-06:002007-12-16T20:29:00.000-06:00So, what was the story you mentioned in your intro...So, what was the story you mentioned in your intro here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-52133691496141524682007-12-16T18:51:00.000-06:002007-12-16T18:51:00.000-06:00I'll have to check and see if I have that collecti...I'll have to check and see if I have that collection.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-47556241004685154872007-12-16T18:33:00.000-06:002007-12-16T18:33:00.000-06:00I wish somebody would reprint Dick's introduction ...I wish somebody would reprint Dick's introduction to the Berkley edition of The Golden Man. He really gives a sense of what his life was like in the 50s and 60s and 70s Berkley. It's a mordant piece--one friend dying of cancer, another forced to buy horse meat to survive--but not without the courage and honesty he brought to virtually all his fiction. I know the lit types knock his early short stories. But I've been reading and rereading them since my early teens and they hold up well for me. This is a good collection of old and recent.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.com