I watch all of your videos (Trying to work through your backlogs) I just started reading the Man in the High Castle as my PKD intro, and I wanted to see a little bit of content on his work. I knew where to come. You are a real scholar of the subject, and one of a kind. I’ve been wanting to send you something for a while, but I just went through a cross country move, and have been transitioning into a new job. This is actually the only time I have ever done this. Thanks for everything, and I wish the best for you.
Many thanks, William, that's very kind- yeah, I've done my time in the Salt Mines as you can see and I've been lucky to encounter many other serious literary types (readers and writers) along the way. Super-Thanks is very welcome as this is a small channel and I aim to put a lot into it, so I'm very touched!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I didn’t think about it before I sent it, but next time I will post it on your most recent video and maybe someone else will feel inclined to do the same when they see it. You deserve more than you get for your hard work and expertise. Cheers, sir. I’ll be here watching!
Lovely video, great to see all those covers and be reminded of the books. Discovering PKD in my early 20's was a watershed moment for me - the two that blew my mind particularly were Ubik and Flow My Tears. I had really strange dreams for weeks afterwards which I sadly don't remember but they were trippy and mind-bending as hell. No drugs necessary! (PKD took enough for all of us, I suspect). I've always felt that Maze of Death doesn't get the attention it merits - each time I read it I get something new from it and its impact doesn't seem to diminish with re-reading - 'spiky' is a great word to describe it. I struggle with A Scanner Darkly and the later 'mystical' stuff but maybe I will come around to that in my dotage, Anyway, great work as always, bravo.
I came across several of these same editions, here in Colorado, a couple years back. All for 3 bucks each. I grabbed them all. I felt like a thief in the night.
Great collection..i do have some...indeed my whole collection is in paper back. My first introduction to PDk were the collections. ' A HandFul Of Darkness ' , ' The Book Of Philip K Dick ' ..et al. Later DADOES..i was hooked. When i read 'Valis ' with is look at belief...it " touched a nerve ". Thanks looking forward to more .
I still miss Forever People in Bristol. Apart from the SF books, it had American comics you couldn't get anywhere else, the Dungeons and Dragons RPG,s and the magazines for people who enjoyed, er, certain recreational substances. It had a genuinely bohemian, hippy vibe that's absent from Forbidden Planet. As regards Clans of the Alphane Moon, Lord Running Clam is definitely one of the best characters in it. Years ago there was a documentary in which one of the people featured was into slime moulds. I immediately felt that this person had to call one of them after the character.
I still miss it too, some 28 years after it closed down. It was the first SF specialist I visited at the very start of the 1980s and when I moved to Bath, being able to visit regularly and buy US imports was a joy. Lord Running Clam? One of the finest aliens in the history of the genre!
I have that same edition of A Handful of Darkness that’s in quite a state mostly due to the fact that it contains my favorite story by him “Upon the Dull Earth”. In the States here it’s very difficult to find PKD in the shops - save for the Blade Runner film cover release, which is everywhere. When hitting the shops I typically head straight for the sf D section and and occasionally (though decreasingly) rewarded.
Yes, that's a great early story. More or less all of PKDs work is in print here in the UK - he was a consistent cult figure here even in the 70s, since Moorcock, Brunner and Disch always championed him- but few bookshops keep much of a range, which is a shame.
I have a hardback first edition (bookclub though) of Man in the High Castle. I started reading PKD when I was in high school in the early 1960s and still have some of those PKD paperback editions, most notably "The Solar Lottery" All in all, my "Dick" shelf, as they say, runs to six feet a mix of paperback and hardback editions.
Well, check out the channel and watch some of my SF videos and you'll get a feel for the other authors I favour- but I will say this: try Silverberg's stuff from between 1968 and 1976. There are videos about Bob S on the channel.
My favourite Dick novel is Three Stigmata, I think I must have been the right age when I first read it. As for the variety of publishers, it was a great time, and it seems to me that as publishers amalgamated the variety of SF published became narrower until we reached the situation we're in now... no real SF coming out in the UK, but lits of space opera and what they call "military" SF, boring and tedious stuff.
Absolutely right. There's the odd thing from Solaris and Titan and the former is getting worse, while the latter has never been front rank, though we live in hope. Gollancz and Voyager are quite embarrassing now and the lack of new SF in orbit is concerning. It really does feel like it's all over. Sad, isn't it?
I watch all of your videos (Trying to work through your backlogs) I just started reading the Man in the High Castle as my PKD intro, and I wanted to see a little bit of content on his work. I knew where to come. You are a real scholar of the subject, and one of a kind. I’ve been wanting to send you something for a while, but I just went through a cross country move, and have been transitioning into a new job. This is actually the only time I have ever done this. Thanks for everything, and I wish the best for you.
Many thanks, William, that's very kind- yeah, I've done my time in the Salt Mines as you can see and I've been lucky to encounter many other serious literary types (readers and writers) along the way. Super-Thanks is very welcome as this is a small channel and I aim to put a lot into it, so I'm very touched!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal I didn’t think about it before I sent it, but next time I will post it on your most recent video and maybe someone else will feel inclined to do the same when they see it. You deserve more than you get for your hard work and expertise. Cheers, sir. I’ll be here watching!
Lovely video, great to see all those covers and be reminded of the books. Discovering PKD in my early 20's was a watershed moment for me - the two that blew my mind particularly were Ubik and Flow My Tears. I had really strange dreams for weeks afterwards which I sadly don't remember but they were trippy and mind-bending as hell. No drugs necessary! (PKD took enough for all of us, I suspect). I've always felt that Maze of Death doesn't get the attention it merits - each time I read it I get something new from it and its impact doesn't seem to diminish with re-reading - 'spiky' is a great word to describe it. I struggle with A Scanner Darkly and the later 'mystical' stuff but maybe I will come around to that in my dotage, Anyway, great work as always, bravo.
Thanks Michael. Yes, 'Maze' is almost a hidden masterpiece, it has real acidic ire in it, a special work even in the PKD canon!
I came across several of these same editions, here in Colorado, a couple years back. All for 3 bucks each. I grabbed them all. I felt like a thief in the night.
You gotta grab the PKD in 'A format' when the chance is there, as they go so swiftly!
Great collection..i do have some...indeed my whole collection is in paper back. My first introduction to PDk were the collections. ' A HandFul Of Darkness ' , ' The Book Of Philip K Dick ' ..et al. Later DADOES..i was hooked. When i read 'Valis ' with is look at belief...it " touched a nerve ". Thanks looking forward to more .
Thanks Sylvan, I'll be doing at least 3-4 other PKD clips over the next year looking at the collection and he'll often come up in other contexts too!
Great stuff Steve🙂👍
Thanks Jules, knew you'd like it! Isaac Asimov in Granada/Grafton in 2 days and Vintage Black Lizard Crime late next week!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Nice!
I still miss Forever People in Bristol. Apart from the SF books, it had American comics you couldn't get anywhere else, the Dungeons and Dragons RPG,s and the magazines for people who enjoyed, er, certain recreational substances. It had a genuinely bohemian, hippy vibe that's absent from Forbidden Planet. As regards Clans of the Alphane Moon, Lord Running Clam is definitely one of the best characters in it. Years ago there was a documentary in which one of the people featured was into slime moulds. I immediately felt that this person had to call one of them after the character.
I still miss it too, some 28 years after it closed down. It was the first SF specialist I visited at the very start of the 1980s and when I moved to Bath, being able to visit regularly and buy US imports was a joy. Lord Running Clam? One of the finest aliens in the history of the genre!
I have that same edition of A Handful of Darkness that’s in quite a state mostly due to the fact that it contains my favorite story by him “Upon the Dull Earth”. In the States here it’s very difficult to find PKD in the shops - save for the Blade Runner film cover release, which is everywhere. When hitting the shops I typically head straight for the sf D section and and occasionally (though decreasingly) rewarded.
Yes, that's a great early story. More or less all of PKDs work is in print here in the UK - he was a consistent cult figure here even in the 70s, since Moorcock, Brunner and Disch always championed him- but few bookshops keep much of a range, which is a shame.
I have a hardback first edition (bookclub though) of Man in the High Castle. I started reading PKD when I was in high school in the early 1960s and still have some of those PKD paperback editions, most notably "The Solar Lottery" All in all, my "Dick" shelf, as they say, runs to six feet a mix of paperback and hardback editions.
I have a first of High Castle. Like yourself, my PKD collection in whole is immense!
@@outlawbookselleroriginal Hope you might do a piece on that first edition hardback book and where it stands in most valuable sci fi book list.
He's still my favorite SF writer. If I like him, any reccomendations?
Well, check out the channel and watch some of my SF videos and you'll get a feel for the other authors I favour- but I will say this: try Silverberg's stuff from between 1968 and 1976. There are videos about Bob S on the channel.
@outlawbookselleroriginal thanks man! I just discovered your videos yesterday and will gladly gobble them up.
My favourite Dick novel is Three Stigmata, I think I must have been the right age when I first read it.
As for the variety of publishers, it was a great time, and it seems to me that as publishers amalgamated the variety of SF published became narrower until we reached the situation we're in now... no real SF coming out in the UK, but lits of space opera and what they call "military" SF, boring and tedious stuff.
Absolutely right. There's the odd thing from Solaris and Titan and the former is getting worse, while the latter has never been front rank, though we live in hope. Gollancz and Voyager are quite embarrassing now and the lack of new SF in orbit is concerning. It really does feel like it's all over. Sad, isn't it?
I thought the Preserving Machine was wonderful