Solar Lottery in Philip K Dick

Feb 24, 2009 Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: philip-k-dick, klassiker, 63-top-books, fiktion, bildungsroman, libere, thriller, ab-do, 1950s, dystopian

In 1955 Ace Books published Philip K. Dick’s novel Solar Lottery; which was his first published novel and the beginning of a career that changed his life and thousands more - decades and decades later... a brilliant novel that gives one a glimpse through an imaginative eyes; before the pupils dilated to become psychedelically wild to become the master of speculative-reality bent literature.

Solar Lottery is clever and exciting with a lot of action. It’s a novel that shows that government can get ...more

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Feb 19, 2008 Hertzan Chimera rated it it was amazing

Solar Lottery was Philip K. Dick’s first novel, published back in the mid-1950s before the psychedelic drugs he became addicted to plagued his work. He has used similar threads in several works, the dehumanisation of contests and lotteries. Were it not for the futuristic setting, this could so easily have seen Dick writing riveting novels of social horrors - if only he hadn’t sided with Donald A. Wollheim at Ace Books.

Philip K Dick could have been one of the greats - a true mass-market writer o ...more

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Jun 08, 2008 Aharon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: finished

For an early book (1953) this novel contains almost all the elements one expects to find in his later novels: an uncertain everyman suddenly exalted, a young and manipulative female, a large overbearing coldly calculating boss. One complaint: for an everyman I couldn't get over the waspy name of the protagonist... I think PKD chose better names in his later works. But it's all forgiven since PKD shows his characteristic brilliance in taking an idea, namely a feudal society operating a capitalist ...more

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Nov 07, 2008 Maureen rated it liked it

Shelves: 2009, novels

i think this might be the first novel that was published and you can tell it's early phil dick but that doesn't mean it isn't clever and thought-provoking, the stamp he gives to all his writing. i have been parcelling out philip k. dick novels to myself for a while now so it was a treat to consume one after the other. solar lottery is a bit more conventionally sci-fi'ish with a dash of sexy. i know benteley's supposed to be the protagonist, and i don't know if it's a need to see things improve f ...more

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Oct 08, 2013 Chanpheng rated it liked it

Typical PKD - some crazy ideas, little awareness of women, and conspiracies.

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Jun 24, 2008 Themistocles rated it really liked it

Shelves: p-k-dick, scifi

A great full-length debut for a 50s PKD, showcasing some of the themes he will explore later in his life (but before his drug use and paranoia). Reads a bit like a stretched short-story, but it well worth it.

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