Funny thing when you read a forty- or fifty-year-old science-fiction story: it feels like it plagiarizes dozens of more recent books or movies. It’s hard to appreciate it fully under those circumstances.
Beyond that, though, it looks like Dick’s science-fiction is not exactly the geeky kind, but more of the poetic, dreamy variety that doesn’t really care about… well, the science part. In Ubik’s case, Dick writes a character who essentially has all the powers of a god, and he never addresses that, and it evidently doesn’t bother him a bit — but it bothers me a lot, and just keeps me out of the story.
And then, there are the long chapters about 1900s-technology that Dick remembers a little too fondly, which is pretty unhealthy for a scifi author.
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garoo, il y a 6 ans :
Actually, when I mentioned godlike powers I didn't mean him, but the girl :)
I wouldn't say he wants to tell the truth from the illusion, but rather his point is that truth is just another illusion, isn't it?
Not too tempted to read other works of his. I really think he and I don't have the same idea of science fiction :)
cossaw, il y a 6 ans :
He really did think we lived in an illusion and that no real truth existed (except a theistic truth, but that's not the point here)
What's intersting, though, is to read from someone (you, Garoo), who doesn't kinda worship PKDick - that's refreshing !
Hum, I should have added the spoiler banner, shouldn't I ?
garoo, il y a 6 ans :
It's only on my side that I can mark comments as spoilers (I guess I should add a <spoilers> tag, but that would be more work).
Well, from a literary point of view, it was definitely good. It's just that I'm the kind of geek who cares too much about the details of plot consistency :)
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cossaw, il y a 6 ans :