Just do it! I'm sure you can find a good copy on abebooks for like $5.

By the way, I have Rogue Moon on order ($6 total) from abebooks. :up: Always in search of recs for sci-fi that scratchs the PKD itch, i.e. stories about people dealing with weird shit, rather than hardcore sci-fi.

I read my first PKD after college, and loved it. Different smokes for different smokers...

Yeah Rogue Moon is a little like that. Not quite ordinary people, but quite definitely people, with their own personal issues, and the book’s mainly about that. Which is why I thought of it — and because it’s curious that people don’t know it these days since it used to always be on “All Time Best SF Novels” lists. I don’t understand why it’s been out of print for so long, and it was presumably Budrys’s decision. (I only know one other book of his, Michaelmas, which I also loved.)

(An unrelated case of being — less inexplicably — out-of-print is Cordwainer Smith. Whole different deal from Dick, or from anyone. Really, anyone. Of all publishers, Baen did a two-volume paperback set several years ago, but it’s already gone. Worth hunting down. Robert Silverberg used to say that the only consolation he could find for Cordwainer Smith writing as he did was that he was actually from the far future.)

Yeah Rogue Man — Srap Tasmaner

Rogue Moon, right?

Cordwainer Smith — Srap Tasmaner

Heard of him, but haven't read. More stuff added to the list.

Rogue Man
— Srap Tasmaner

Rogue Moon, right? — Noble Dust

Heh. Yes, you ordered the right book. I can’t even blame autocorrect, but I should’ve gone to sleep hours ago.

:ok:

I only know one other book of his, Michaelmas, which I also loved — Srap Tasmaner

I read and enjoyed Budrys's Who? after being haunted since childhood by the memory of the film adaptation starring Elliot Gould.

Any thoughts? Have you read other PKD? — Noble Dust

I haven't finished it yet, but his writing style is interesting, to say the least.

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Christopher Browning
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter

The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler — jamalrob

Did you ever see the film by Robert Altman with Elliot Gould? I guess a lot of people don't like it because of it's unconventional Phillip Marlow, but it's one of my favorites. I've always liked Gould.

Yes, one of my favourites too. I don't mind that he's different from Chandler's Marlowe.

Conceptual Issues in Psychology
by Elizabeth R. Valentine

Death of a Salesman ayeeeeee

Money and Power, Jacques Ellul

Anyone read Caesar's Messian (The roman conspiracy to invent Jesus) by Joseph Atwill or
Creating Christ (How Roman Emperors invented Christianity) by J.S Valliant and W. Fahy?

OR

The personal memoirs of U.S Grant?

The Ego and The Id by Freud (rereading)

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

A Treatise on Human Nature - David Hume

The Five Books of (Robert) Moses - Arthur Nersesian

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow

Wolfgang Streeck - How will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System
Mark Blyth - Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Tiqqun - Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl
Tiqqun - Theory of Bloom

Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Freud

Ok. Ok. I'm taking another run at "Gormenghast."

:party:

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang

The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman

The Forever War — Pantagruel

One of my favorite military science fiction books. Clever and well-written.

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My favourite overall sci-fi.