Published on 12, July, 2020
Hey there
I just finished a audiobook called Unmasking Autism by Devon Price. I really enjoyed it and this was my first experience of an audible. I struggle to read books as I find I read and then track back and read again, I struggle to concentrate and take it all in basically.
Is there a must read book that anyone can recommend for self discovering as a newly recognised autistic?
I'm reading Nick Harkaway's "Angelmaker" : it's a Connie Willis/William Gibson love child reared on a dash of PK ***. He writes a lot for the whovian universe as well.
authors name is PK D I C K. It's his actual name, from a time when the word was just a work.
Such an obscenity! I'll have to report you!
Ohhh moderatorrrr!
I am glad to have lifted you out of the morass of charade into the light of intellectual curiosity! Enjoy your new best friend writer PKD! You are in for such a treat!
there was a rotoscope animation done of Scanner, actually. It was pretty good. I'll find the link. Give us a tick.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly_(film)
My fav of his would be "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"
followed by "Valis"
Oh they broke the mold when he began writing. He changed, along with JG Ballard so much of what Sci fi. would later become!
If you are interested in the heady history of sci fi there are some fantastic online classes at "the great courses".. I'll fetch a link for you...
Wow! I just went to the site and there are WAY more classes about the genre than every before!
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/search/science%20fiction
Thank you so much for mentioning this chap. (PKD). I have never come across him before but having read up a little just now, he sounds very much up my street.
No one EVER mentions hs meisterwerk "Through a Scanner Darkly"...
Yes and I could continue this charade and be furtherly obscene but shall refrain. I don't want to bring you down to my level.
I generally don't read fiction but shall look up the names you mentioned.
ok. Joking?I think so, yes?
wiki the name, there he is, a very influential sci fi writer. He wrote Minority report, Blade Runner, AI, The mame in the high castle and many others. He is a legend.
And what a pity the post overlooks the other references, all great writers.