Lies, Inc.: Library Edition

from frenchphenom5

As many people have already said, it is one of his lesser works. I will agree on that point that I enjoyed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and A Scanner Darkly much more than Lies, Inc. Some things to be considered is the afterword which mentions the quite interesting publishing history of th...

from shibberson

All of Dick's familiar themes are there - deception of the media, shameless big corporations calling the shots, the blur between reality and fantasy - but for some reason this novel didn't really engross me as much as I thought it would. I found the disjointed narrative sometimes confusing to fol...

from dandelionroots

The premise is baller: Earth is overcrowded, an evil genius invents and then capitalizes on a one-way teleportation system to a habitable planet (Whale's Mouth) outside the solar system. Rachmael ben Applebaum surmises that the grass might not be so green on the other side of the Telpor gates and...

from JBreedlove

I read this a few years ago. Not much to remember except that this was not close to blade runner. Dry and stilted. I look forward to reading another P. Dick novel. Depending on whether its similar to this or blade runner will determine if I read a third

from mikemillertime

Even as a fairly strong PKDick enthusiast, it was hard to enjoy this one. Like other works typical of his final writings, this book also meanders through a bevy of half-formed ideas. A madness infects these works that repeatedly hints at the writer's brilliance, but unfortunately he can't reign i...