When I watched TMitHC, I couldn't remember enough of the book to compare. It seemed like a decent version.
My favorite PKD story is Martian Time-Slip, but it's been awhile since I read that, so I don't know if it holds up. It's about autism, the same scene seen from different points of view, and indigenous people (martians).
From the short story department, there were a few that were memorable, but I don't recall the names:
- in one, PDK himself is the protagonist, attending a science fiction writer convention where he is kidnapped and held hostage by people from the future that want the sci-fi authors of today that predicted their dystopia to help prevent it
- in another, several people are on a tour of a facility with a giant radio telescope or some other apparatus that goes awry while they are near. The rest of the story the group trying to survive in the miasma of each of their psyches, one world after another. IIRC, in one, they are being eaten by a house which was particularly awesome.
I have a pulpy I Ching that reads like a horoscope. (Bantam New Age Books). I recently wrote a python script to throw the coins for me and tell me the lower/upper trigrams, hexagram and moving lines. I don't use it much, but I got tired of trying to keep track of actual coins and it was a good scripting exercise.
--tg
My favorite PKD story is Martian Time-Slip, but it's been awhile since I read that, so I don't know if it holds up. It's about autism, the same scene seen from different points of view, and indigenous people (martians).
From the short story department, there were a few that were memorable, but I don't recall the names:
- in one, PDK himself is the protagonist, attending a science fiction writer convention where he is kidnapped and held hostage by people from the future that want the sci-fi authors of today that predicted their dystopia to help prevent it
- in another, several people are on a tour of a facility with a giant radio telescope or some other apparatus that goes awry while they are near. The rest of the story the group trying to survive in the miasma of each of their psyches, one world after another. IIRC, in one, they are being eaten by a house which was particularly awesome.
I have a pulpy I Ching that reads like a horoscope. (Bantam New Age Books). I recently wrote a python script to throw the coins for me and tell me the lower/upper trigrams, hexagram and moving lines. I don't use it much, but I got tired of trying to keep track of actual coins and it was a good scripting exercise.
--tg