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Ümit Mutlu
Tüm dinler tarihini, bilhassa İsa'yı bilimkurguya indirgemek, dünyadışı zeki yaşamformlarıyla birleştirmek; bunu yaparken de baskıcı totaliter faşist hükümetleri işin içine harikuladeten katıp harmanlayarak, belki de yazılabilecek en iyi politik-bilimkurguya imza atmak.

PKD işte. Gerisi lafıgüzaf.
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Peter Walton-Jones
What an utterly fascinating book. Very hard to describe. PKD writes himself into this story...the sci-fi author friend of a seemingly disturbed man suffering from either an alien possession or religious mania. In the end it would appear that the two conditions are not so distinct! You will have to read it to see how Dick unravels that...The story is an 'alternate universe' story. In this case it is a vision of a world dominated by the paranoid anti-communist sentiment of 1950s McCarthyism. A cen ...more
Paul
Sep 18, 2011 rated it really liked it
Dick's first effort at explaining his mystical experiences of 1974. Some ideas were later re-worked to produce VALIS. It verges on a conspiracy novel at times. Lacking in the comic elements of VALIS, but still a very enjoyable read ...more
Pickle
a great start, ok middle and good ending.

A nice alternative take on the valis incident and one i would read again.

3/5
Ted Child
Apr 03, 2010 rated it really liked it
Elizabeth
Apr 11, 2010 rated it did not like it
Bart
Apr 26, 2010 rated it it was ok
Sevengia
Jul 20, 2010 rated it it was amazing
sedrabnivag
Sep 22, 2010 marked it as to-read
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Nov 09, 2010 rated it really liked it
Jason
Dec 13, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: philip-k-dick, sci-fi
Khoragos
Jan 16, 2011 rated it it was ok
Palmer Eldritch
Feb 02, 2011 rated it really liked it
Harkonen
Mar 26, 2011 marked it as to-read
Rob
Jun 20, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: sci-fi, sci-fi-pkd
Evren
Jun 28, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Per Hoffmann Olsen
Sep 04, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Chad Brock
Apr 25, 2012 rated it it was ok
Gine
May 09, 2012 rated it it was ok
tyto
Jun 16, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: eb
Johan
Jul 29, 2012 marked it as to-read
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Aug 25, 2012 marked it as to-read
Alan Ziebarth
Dec 26, 2012 rated it liked it
Harry Haller
Jan 21, 2013 rated it really liked it
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Chad Eastwood
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May 30, 2014 rated it liked it
Christian Villarroel
Sep 27, 2014 rated it it was amazing