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wow. well, this is pretty fresh in my mind, and it's been a couple of weeks. that doesn't surprise me though because the ideas that dick toyed with in his last cycle of books are to me the most compelling, indeed the most disturbing and challenging to my mind. dick's narrator angel archer is one of his most resonant, matter-of-fact, and yes, human. she is a rare accomplishment in terms of his development of a female character, though this may well be because she has his own very human voice, or
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Not as sad as Valis, and not nearly as wild as the Divine Invasion, this third installment in the SF trilogy is not really SF at all, unless you consider characters musing about things being a form of science fiction. A book about death, and how we want to overcome it.
What a finale for PKD. A really great story as Dick attempts to write a more or less mainstream novel. Though at times it feels a but disconnected, perhaps due to the time it took PKD to write it, it will leave you cursing that he didn't have much time left...
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Apr 08, 2014
Seán Higgins
marked it as to-read
