Solar Lottery in Philip K. Dick

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

Shelves: 1950s, favourite, 63-top-books, bildungsroman, libere, thriller, ab-do, science-fiction, mystery, author-favorites

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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Jul 30, 2012 Marta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: philip-k-dick, 2015, 2015-fiction

After reading this book for the second time, I downgraded it to 4 stars, which is still pretty good!

Solar Lottery, the first novel by Philip K.Dick to be published, features some of his recurrent scenarios and themes: a future where mankind has colonised other worlds (although here the Earth is still habitable, unlike in some of his later novels), the existence of individuals with telepathic abilities, a totalitarian government that rules over the entire civilization and trends like multiple col ...more

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Jun 24, 2008 Themistocles rated it really liked it

Shelves: scifi, p-k-dick

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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