Kick over the Scenery
Stephanie Burt: Philip K. Dick, 3 July 2008
Four Novels of the 1960s: ‘The Man in the High Castle’, ‘The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch’, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’, ‘Ubik’
by Philip K. Dick.
Library of America, 830 pp., $35, May 2008,978 1 59853 009 4 Show More
by Philip K. Dick.
Library of America, 830 pp., $35, May 2008,
Five Novels of the 1960s and 1970s: ‘Martian Time-Slip’, ‘Dr Bloodmoney’, ‘Now Wait for Last Year’, ‘Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said’, ‘A Scanner Darkly’
by Philip K. Dick.
Library of America, 1128 pp., $40, August 2008,978 1 59853 025 4 Show More
by Philip K. Dick.
Library of America, 1128 pp., $40, August 2008,
“... When an art form or genre once dismissed as kids’ stuff starts to get taken seriously by gatekeepers – by journals, for example, such as the one you are reading now – respect doesn’t come smoothly, or all at once. Often one artist gets lifted above the rest, his principal works exalted for qualities that other works of the same kind seem not to possess ... ”
