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Just posted this in last thread where there was a Phillip K Dick discussion. This is his “lost” aka suppressed anti-abortion story :
https://culturalrevue.com/2022/06/26/phillip-k-dicks-lost-pro-life-short-story-the-pre-persons/
Scroll down to the bottom to download the pdf, it’s in the public domain now. I thought some frens here may enjoy it. It’s a great story.
I DL'd it and will read when I have a minute to do so with my feet up so to speak.
(Edit: So will see if style-wise I find it any different/should I explore other works after all.)
Let me know. I really think his shorter works tend to be his best. If not, hey, at least you gave it a chance.
Wow... not a science fiction aficionado so I was unaware of Phillip K Dick...fascinating! Thanks fren!
He is very highly-regarded as one of the top writers in the genre, though ironically the discussion was a couple of us saying yeah no not into his style personally.
(Asimov is another I tried but simply could not get into - annoying as the "Foundation" series is like required reading. It's what I tried and just couldn't get going with.)
Now for someone not into the genre at all, I'd suggest "Dune" as a starting point for the major works as it's easy to read despite how much is going on and not terribly heavy on the science/space etc part of the fiction.
Eh, "sort of" on "well read."
Um yeah basically still Rand sorry. I think we've even discussed previously, but to recap, I get if one does not like her style. I also think AS, as great as it is, is forced in some plot elements (unsatisfactory love triangle resolution for example)(which she claimed never to use plot in service of theme but it's too forced to believe that). I think TF works better as actual literature and is better from that standpoint, despite it being only a portion of what AS is philosophically.
And of course, her non-fiction body of work is huge and barring a few topics I don't fully agree on (abortion being the biggest/most obvious) generally she defends individualism and capitalism, and attacks socialism/communism/totalitarianism, better than I've seen anyone else do due to her ability to always tie it in to philosophy which means the arguments stand hierarchically down to first principles (axioms).
I think for enjoyable rereading Dune still is better than both. I also think Watership Down is great and should be on liberty-minded person's list if they haven't read it, or only saw the animated one decades ago as a kid or whatnot.
I second Snow Crash as well. Very interesting read.
Haha yeah i just thought it was a good place to drop the story. Personally I thought Asimov’s Foundation series was rather dry. Again, I much prefer PKD shorter works. As for Dune, should be required reading!
I kept trying to read dune but just couldn't get into it...
Foundation - I couldn't get into how the whole story (at least as far as I read) was told in dialog form.
Thanks fren!
My pleasure. What I love is to tell the liberals who idolize him about this story. Might be a red pill for them, but usually they just get angry at me…
well done!