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Ok - Well it was a pretty blunt dismissal. And given the author's condition when writing the last part I suppose it can be a harsh judgement.. All of that aside, a good story needs a good ending. And the last book in the Gormenghast trilogy was too different than the others, and in my opinion...

I like Sci-Fi and Fantasy for various different reasons.. My favourite authour when I was a kid was Asimov. And maybe then I did read it for escapism, but I got hooked into his characters and the unlimited possibilities that exist in this universe we have.. And then I read Donaldson's...

Extollager Thanks for the link.. I think it's a pretty interesting aspect to P. Dick's stories.. Especially those written during the '50s. MTS, for example, is about a colony on Mars and there's no wars or any of that, but the Unionists are made out to be the 'bad guys' hoarding all the...

I really liked this book. The way Dick describes these schizophrenic / autistic / alternate mental states and experiences are brillint and really vivid. Totally gripping book. It's probably not for everyone, and really the only flaw I have with P. K. Dick's novels are that they're too short...

VALIS is my favourite, it is just crazy, mindblowing stuff.. It's on a different level to anything else. But having said that, Martian Time-Slip, A Scanner Darkly, and Time out of Joint are all really damn good as well. Rediculously good. UBIK and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are also...

Personally I relish the challenge of a big read, and what I mean by that is the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Soon to be 10 books, all around the 600-700 page mark. And that's something I re-read every couple of years. I'd rather start a series that's going to keep me busy for a month or two...

Thanks guys. I know everyone's taste is different, and no doubt there are people who like his stuff.. somewhere.. but you've at least encouraged me to put him well dawn the order. There are so many good books and authours out there I don't really want to begin reading a big series that...

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I am really keen to know if anyone here rates either the 'Saga of Seven Suns' or 'Terra Incognita' series. I really like sci-fi and fantasy and my favourite authours are S. Sonaldson, U. Le Guin, F. Herbert, I. Asimov, I. Welsh and P. K. Dick. I read two of the Dune 'prequels' as well as the...

I recommend Donaldson all the time.. I never talk to anyone about books without telling them to read the Chronichles of Thomas Covenant.. I often force copies of the Illearth war upon them to get them started as well. He is my favourite fantasy author by a fair margin, but possibly my 3rd...

I'm not sure where you got your information from, but the VALIS Trilogy has always been VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. RFA doesn't even come into it. As you say Dick wrote RFA before VALIS, though the publishers never agreed to publish RFA so he gave up on it...

Sorry for the bump, but I just discovered this site.. Now with a new series of Firefly, there's a few questions that can be explored.. Zoe and Mal. Possible breif romance? I know you're all thinking it. Even if the Alliance is damaged by the exposure about what happenned on Miranda, they...

I have loved the TC series since I was 8, and when I was 20, i re-read them with my (then) GF and she really got into them, and discovered Mordant's Need all by herself. But I never actually touched it till a couple of years ago, and while I enjoyed it, I kinda felt it was lacking something...

I've got to say I really enjoyed Against All Things Ending. But I really had to read it twice to fit it all in.. The Last Chronicles as a whole have a different feel to them than the first and second, and take you to some pretty dark places. I also don't really understand how so many people...

As a previous poster pointed out, The Disposessed is a really profound look at different political systems, etc.. I wish to point out the reasons that overlooking the Earthea series is.. well.. is causing you to miss out on a lot. A Wizard of Earthsea is a pretty simple story, but it's a set-up...

I've just picked it up again, and I am always amazed by Le Guin's stories - this is certainly no different.. But I don't believe she is a feminist. She is, however, a Taoist.

The thing about Le Guin is that while some of her stories (like the Earthsea sextuplet) are written very simply, so that people of all ages can read them, there's also something very profound about them, that can really resonate with an adult mind.. So I'm not saying she's a YA author per se...

I really loved this book - and it's not usually the sort of thing I liked, but Le Guin bought so much life and love into these characters.. It was amazing.. Though it's also essentially Fan Fiction that Le Guin wrote about the Aeneid, but it it truly wirth the read nonetheless.

Wow! VALIS is the most amazing book I have ever read.. It totally blew my mind. From what I've gathered, RFA is similar - it's basically Dick's first draft of VALIS, which he expanded on quite substantially to get to VALIS, but RFA was the starting point of the VALIS trilogy.. Anyway am really...