This post is about how tasts changes day after day.
My best science fiction author was Asimov, 10 years ago. Today I'm re-descovering Dick.
I've just red Ubik and I feel sorrow now. But today I'm interested in this angst; 10 years ago I'd have preferred to read something different to avoid this feeling.

I'm going to try an experimen: I'll read an Asimov's book after a Dick's one: what will it happen to my science fiction reader taste?
:-)

Hmmmmm, according to me you will continue to appreciate Asimov as like you did before, but probably you'll think that Dick is at the same level ^__^

I'm read Dick recently - short story book -, and I have re discovering too. But, Asimov was another level, I still prefer Asimov, without doubt.

I don't love Asimov very much, but it should be because I red it when I was too young... I'll try again.

If you love PKD, you'll go crazy for the "Crazy Wisdom of PDK" course at the Maybe Logic Academy. I joined and it's nice and smooth.

If you want some info:
http://www.maybelogic.org/erikcrs.htm

I prefer Dick to Asimov, personally.

The author I had a pleasure to rediscover was Frank Herbert. I recently re-read the entire Dune series and it really felt like a first read. Firstly because I was quite young when I first read them (and didn't quite follow the intricacies of the intrigue plots) and secondly because the first time round, I read them in French. The funny thing is that I still read all the character and place names in a "french way". :-)

As an aside, can anyone recommend a good PKD book? I have read Ubik and Galactic Pot-Healer. What should be the next step?

My favorite PDK book is A Scanner Darkly - a very sympathetic and honest treatment of drug sub-culture. After that, the VALIS trilogy: VALIS, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. If you like those I also recommend the Exegesis, his journal about his gnostic beliefs/experiences.

Obviously (IMHO) you must read "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" :)

I think Asimov and Dick represent two very different kind of SF. Anyway I like them both. If I had to recommend a PKD book to read I would certainly suggest "The Man in the High Castle" and "Eye in the Sky".

Hi everybody. I agree with Ginny: Asimov and Dick represent two very different kind of SF. Their ways of writing are extremely different too: while Asimov is *mainly* a writer of SF, PKD books happen to be SF, but their themes are deeper and more complex.

PKD novels are not remotely comarable to Asimovs. It's like reading different genres. Dick had this incredibly subtle and paranoic insight into reality that unbalances you as a reader. His concept of "kipple" (a slightly more depressive view of entropy) as a permeating filter tearing the reality we know is so incredibly deep and fearful that reading his novels is a thoroughly alienating experience. Reality will not look the same to you shortly after finishing Ubik or Martian time slip :-) You either love Dick or you hate him.

I loved Ubik (I've read it a couple of years ago) and appreciated also "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
I would like to read Asimov, one day but I confess I never read a line of him (I'm a little ashamed of... - but - I've just borrowed from the library the "Tales of the Black Widowers"... but is not exactly sci-fi)

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