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June 12, 2007 5:14 AM

The Library of America has published Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (edited by Jonathan Lethem): The Man in the High Castle , The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interview with Lethem from this month's WIRED is reprinted here (to avoid their dreadful popups) Reviews here, here and here. [Previously]
posted by chuckdarwin (17 comments total)

Oh how times have changed. I remember in the 80s wallking into Pages Books in Toronto and asking for PK Dick books. The owner, Marc Glasman, a well-respected book seller, said, "Oh, we don't carry books like that!" and referred me to a science fiction bookstore.
posted by dobbs at 5:31 AM on June 12, 2007

I already read them.

/Old Guy
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:31 AM on June 12, 2007

Hey, this is new!

/Old Guy's Doppleganger
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:33 AM on June 12, 2007

MetaFilter: Dick-heads.

if you are a bladerunner junkie like me, you might enjoy on the edge of bladerunner.
posted by phaedon at 5:41 AM on June 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

Something of a double (though I haven't checked the links for overlap).
posted by Prospero at 5:43 AM on June 12, 2007

The owner, Marc Glasman, a well-respected book seller, said, "Oh, we don't carry books like that!" and referred me to a science fiction bookstore.

Is his shop still there?
posted by chuckdarwin at 5:44 AM on June 12, 2007

Prospero is right.
posted by chuckdarwin at 5:46 AM on June 12, 2007

It's about damn time.
posted by adamgreenfield at 5:49 AM on June 12, 2007

Or maybe I should dial in a cheerier setting? 220, "Elation"? How about 6471, "Bookish, with occasional outbreaks of Delight"?
posted by adamgreenfield at 5:52 AM on June 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

Library of America books are awesome.
posted by chunking express at 6:02 AM on June 12, 2007

When I read these in high-school, I had to hunt them down in used book shops as they were all out of print.
posted by octothorpe at 6:05 AM on June 12, 2007

I was aware, uncomfortably, that Old Guy had read the novels. Also uncomfortably, I was unsure of the process by which I had ascertained Old Guy's feelings about the novels. I raced from the dingy restaurant to his place by infra-taxi, my mind reeling with questions for this person. Some time later, when the infra-taxi whirred to a halt, I had a nervous breakdown; it had brought me to my own apartment building.

[this is great news]
posted by boo_radley at 6:10 AM on June 12, 2007 [1 favorite]

[i know! i want to skive off and go to whsmith and buy it]
posted by chuckdarwin at 6:13 AM on June 12, 2007

Is his shop still there?

Absolutely. It's one of the most respected non-chain stores in the city. They do a great job for the most part but their attitudes are ass. I go there and browse and write down titles to buy elsewhere because I prefer to shop places where the staff have manners.
posted by dobbs at 6:29 AM on June 12, 2007

Double, and I don't know why the LoA didn't choose to include Martian Time Slip, one of his two best novels.
posted by languagehat at 7:15 AM on June 12, 2007

dobbs, it sounds like shopping at Championship Vinyl!
posted by chuckdarwin at 7:42 AM on June 12, 2007

Sorry you've had bad experiences at Pages, dobbs. I've had nothing but good luck there. I do what you do except I do it in reverse: I write down titles at other bookstores and then I buy them (or order them) at Pages.

Also: I'll never forget walking into Pages and buying the magazine containing my first published story. Good times!

And as for Philip K. Dick, I'm still recovering from reading Valis.
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 8:00 AM on June 12, 2007