>I'd like to put my vote in ~ at this late stage ~ for Philip K. Dick, whose
>books I find very rereadable, _A Scanner Darkly _ being a masterpiece of
>dystopian writing on drugs. He was also one of the only SF writers to
>furnish a plot for an opera ~ Tod Machover's _Valis_, more recent than
>_Aniara_ , & of course his novel _Do Androids etc _ provided the plot ideas
>for _ Blade Runner_, though not the development. I find he creates a poetry
>of modern life by slipping seamlessly from the mundane to the paranoid in an
>apparently transparent style. Anyone who enjoys using the I Ching now & then
>must read _The Man in the High Castle_. I have also got innocent
>trans-artistic pleasure from Ian Watson's SF Bosch paraphrase, _The Garden
>of Delights_ (I think it's called).
>regards
I'd agree fully, Martin. It's the old memory, just not remembering all the
fine ones. Le Guin once called Dick 'our homegrown Borges'... (& of course,
in his own way Borges, whose work I adore, wrote a kind of speculative
fiction a lot of the time...)
Doug
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He saw the dark as a ragged garment
spread out to air.
Through its rents and moth-holes
the silver light came pouring.
Denise Levertov
