tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30810438.post3578399351582272960..comments2023-06-23T09:34:42.832-04:00Comments on The Walrus Said: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - a book reviewJanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04600030574995481267noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30810438.post-10895138205318519252008-09-23T12:15:00.000-04:002008-09-23T12:15:00.000-04:00LOL, Kevin. Much as I dislike clumsy infodumps, I...LOL, Kevin. Much as I dislike clumsy infodumps, I do like getting the information in more elegant forms... ;o)Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04600030574995481267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30810438.post-27561204205982618872008-09-23T11:52:00.000-04:002008-09-23T11:52:00.000-04:00I like that "infodumps disguised as dialogue" bit....I like that "infodumps disguised as dialogue" bit. I've long wanted to read a sci-fi story in which all the pertinant technical info -- especially if it effects the resolution of the conflict -- would take place on the side of a telephone conversation unreported to the reader. All the reader would get is our protagonist saying, "Yeah... uh-huh... I see... well, I'll be... so that's how it works!...okay, okay, we'll do that immediately! I guess we can't stop fretting about that asteroid, eh?" Hangs up. End of story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30810438.post-11678562881671093192008-09-21T16:00:00.000-04:002008-09-21T16:00:00.000-04:00Thanks, Jim. You're not the first one to recommen...Thanks, Jim. You're not the first one to recommend <I>The Man in the High Castle</I> to me, so I will place it on my ridiculously long reading list. Sooner or later, I will get to it.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04600030574995481267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30810438.post-47473308442832694932008-09-20T22:17:00.000-04:002008-09-20T22:17:00.000-04:00You might try The Man in the High Castle, PKD's Hu...You might try The Man in the High Castle, PKD's Hugo award winning novel. VALIS is another good one. The Library of America has two volumes of PKD - I believe the first time they've published a science fiction author. The first volume contains The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik. All four are now out as audio books, which is just another affirmation of PKD's weird success.Jim Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953679196185650753noreply@blogger.com