A review by chromiumboron
The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

4.0

I loved this. Obviously there are some that I liked more than others (We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, wow!), but I found the resounding theme of a post-apocalyptic world to be interesting, especially because we are discussing major extinctions in my Organismal Diversity class. We as humans are currently in the sixth extinction, which will be the first major extinction ever caused by a species. It's just intriguing to me because most of the stories seemed to have characters that had been part of a war or something that could have been prevented and thus prevented extinction. I guess I just relate. I did find some of the writing to be redundant or hard to follow, and for that reason, I had trouble getting through the longer short stories (sorry, but I really detested War Veteran). However, I really enjoyed how different the Paycheck and Minority Report movies are compared to their original stories. I can't decide which I like better, but it was nice to be able to read a story and not know exactly what was going to happen. I was a little worried about that to begin with.
Overall these stories are good, and I would recommend this to other fans of sci-fi.