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Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick

From Don <g@crcomp.net>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Date 2026-11-02 23:41 +0000
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Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On 02/11/2026 10:56, bliss wrote:
> snip
>>
>>     But I never passed up the chance to read Philip K. Dick
>> stories in my youth. That he was on drugs was perhaps the least
>> strange bit of information I learned after he left us without
>> more PKD.
>
> I now remember the films instead of the most famous books read decades
> ago but do remember A Scanner Darkly with amazement. More recently read
> was the less popular but an enjoyable read for me, Flow My Tears, The
> Policeman Said, but my favourites of his perhaps lesser works, are
> Martian Time-Slip, and The World Jones Made.
> Without the drugs, he would not have written such convoluted and
> brilliant stories.

James, HIGH TOWER's Wyoming and Colorado settings interest me more than
its nod to the nonstop Nazi narrative found in bygone Science Fiction.
Frank Frink's fraud is a little on the nose.

bliss, in regards to your nursing career, anyone who aspires to be a
medical genius ought to spend time with ENCYCLOPEDIA & DICTIONARY of
MEDICINE, NURSING, & ALLIED HEALTH, edited by Marie T O'Toole, EdD, RN,
FAAN. One of its many contributors used to post here.

Titus G, SCANNER helped me cope with a relative's suicide. TIME-SLIP's
OK, but FLOW reminds me too much of the Epstein Coalition. The HIGH
CASTLE movie treatment is Epstein Coalition product:

<https://deadline.com/2017/10/roy-price-amazon-sexual-harassment-claim-man-in-the-high-castle-producer-1202187548/>

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(Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2026-11-01 12:24 +0000
  Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-11-01 16:00 -0500
    Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-11-01 13:56 -0800
      Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-11-01 18:40 -0500
        Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-11-01 16:21 -0800
          Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-11-02 09:10 -0500
            Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-11-02 15:03 -0500
              Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-11-03 10:39 -0500
      Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-11-02 15:44 +1300
        Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-11-02 15:22 -0500
          Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-11-07 17:37 +1300
            Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-11-07 09:34 -0500
              Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-11-10 17:09 +1300
        Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2026-11-02 23:41 +0000
          Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-11-02 16:05 -0800
            Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-03 15:27 +0000
    Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2026-11-02 01:31 +0000
      Re: (Tears) The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2026-11-02 15:18 -0500

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