Philip K. Dick
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Review of Nick and the Glimmung by Philip K. Dick
Surprisingly absorbing children’s fiction from grandmaster of social s-f from the pulp era. Nick is a kid with a cat. Earth is a planet that banned cats. So the family has to move to Ploughman’s Planet, where aliens like wubs, werjes, father-things, and printers, among other species, all waging war…
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Review of Puttering About in a Small Land by Philip K. Dick
Puttering About is minor PKD. One of his sidelined realist novels. A quiet, marital struggle in a normal American suburb. It oozes nostalgia for a lost time and place, like an old sitcom, where ‘traffic jam’ refers to fifteen cars on the expressway and people still do things like get…
L. S. Popovich 