Maureen’s Comments (group member since Mar 02, 2009)

Maureen’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

Maureen de Sousa
Today at 10:10pm
hello hello!

i will start by saying i do not have the copy with the intro talking about david bowie. i will also say that pkd is not really like asimov, or herbert, or heinlein. i'm not much for traditional sci-fi myself. from what i've read so far, dick is employing the precog concept here, as he does in other books. usually i just feel like pkd stories are about people i can relate to but there is some fantastic concept or wrapping around it, that feels natural (at least to me) and not contrived. i don't wonder why he introduces far out concepts and ideas because there's a reason for them. as i write this, i'm thinking of lethem's gun, with occasional music which i thought was a good detective story forced into a sci fi milieu.

the book has 17 chapters, so why don't we meet up at the end of chapter 4 and discuss? dan, when do you think you can get there? i am a ridiculously fast reader, and i'm familiar with dick's world so it shouldn't take me too long to get there (in my edition that's 46 pages).

brian, would you mind summarizing the intro for us if dan doesn't have it?

m

Brian Doucet
Today at 9:53pm
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yay! i just started chapter 3 so haven't got very far. do both of you have the copy with the introduction by michael marshall smith? i read it and kind of got excited. i like what he says about david bowie.

i've never been much on sci-fi. i've read a little of bradbury back in high school (the illustrated man and i still remember that short story about the astronauts falling to earth and a little kid seeing the falling star). and read the douglas adams stuff. and dune. that's about all i can think of except for rogue moon which ben passed to me a while back.

so starting this book required me to shift my thinking, especially since i've been reading toer's historical fiction of indonesia in 1899 and then cain's stark crime fiction. but i think i've got the mindset fine tuned.

(thought we'd move our UBIK discussion into the authors page)

so here i am, copying the emails from facebook into this so we can see where it goes. i notice there's a character limit, which may chafe me. :P