How does the film A Scanner Darkly measure up to the novel? Why was Melissa reluctant to read the novel? - Drug crisis in America and across the world. - Phillip K. Dick’s mental illness, a posthumous possible diagnosis. - What does VALIS stand for?
Next: Nick and Melissa will read Inverted World by Christopher Priest. Per Wikipedia, “An entire city and its residents travel slowly across an unknown planet on railway tracks. The city's engineers lay track ahead of the city, reusing old track the city has crossed over. Many people are unaware that the city is even moving. A crisis ensues as its population decreases, the people grow unruly, and an obstacle looms ahead.”
Should the next novel be Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age? Themes are education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.
Or, Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge? The singularity, augmented reality, nanotechnology, and smart technology.
Philip K. Dick: A Psychotic Prophet?
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Romantically - about the German poetry
Inverted World - the next novel that Nick and Melissa will read
