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I want to apologize to my readers who came to this blog yesterday hoping for an update of how I’m doing plowing through my Philip K. Dick reading list. I can’t believe you all, to a man, restrained from sending an email about it. Here is that update now:

It’s going well.

Also, here’s a fun (if unfair) game to play with summarizing the plots of PKD books:

1) Ubik: After their leader is killed in an explosion, a group of anti-psychics discover that what they thought was reality is not as it seems!
2) A Scanner Darkly: After taking mammoth doses of the brain-destroying drug Substance D, an undercover narc discovers that he has been living a double life he can’t remember — the world is not as it seemed!
3) Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Androids have become so much like humans that what you thought was a human might not be what it seems!
4) The Man In The High Castle - In a world where the Germans and Japanese won World War II, a Japanese ambassador in San Francisco briefly enters an alternate reality where the Allies won — whoa, that made the world be not what it seemed!
5) Time Out Of Joint - A man who thought he was living in the year 1959 discovers that the real world is something quite different than what it seemed!

I love them, though. I’m halfway through my sixth one, “Now Wait For Last Year.” I’ll write an unsolicited summary in a few more books.

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