Writers like Phillip K Dick?

I really like PKD, he is probably my favorite author. And I have read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,The Man in the High Castle ,Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Valis, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Time Out of Joint, Martian Time-Slip, The Penultimate Truth, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. And I would say that I have enjoyed all of his novels. But I could never find an author who wrote books similar to his. Now does any here know any books out there similar to Phillip K Dick's books?

Robert Heinlein. Old meme author from the same era. Yeah Starship Troopers is what he is known for but he has a few others that are more /psy/ like Stranger in a Strange Land. Another less known title is Job: A Comedy of Justice. Weak ending but one of my personal favorites. Ray Bradbury's short stories gave me similar vibes. Never read any of his novels but just for a really creative set of quick reads check out Illustrated Man or Martian Chronicles. Not exactly similar to PKD's style or vibe but recently I read a book called Hyperion that scratched every fuarrrking sci-fi itch I have. Super badass heavy religious and psychological themes with some straight spook moments. Was way better than what I expected for a random book I found in the laundromat. A Scanner Darkly is probably one of my favorite PKD books. The movie was actually pretty damn cool too.

There's a lot of old scifi thats more like Dick than the average book you pull off the shelf, but Dick is Dick and though some authors are kindred, none are quite the same, in my humble opinion. First of all, he's got a lot of books. You mention a few, but there's a lot more. Dont forget to read those too. Check out Canticle for Leibowitz, a post apocalyptic novel similar to Deus Irae, one of my favourite PKD books, in certain respects. Ursula Le Guin has a lot of interesting sci fi but it has a distinctly different taste than Phil's. I liked 'Changing Planes' whimsical shorts. But she's got a lot of stuff. If you want more dickish stuff maybe try the lathe of heaven.

If you're on lain you'll want to read everything he's written. Then read everything written about him and all the people in his milieu. Then read everything about the social and geopolitical environment that produced him. nbd. Congratulations, you now understand the past, present and future.

There are good general suggestions in this thread but I don't know if any of them will come close to hitting OP's spot. >>8182 >Dick is Dick Pretty much. JG Ballard comes to my mind in his own way, though I'm no expert on his stuff. If you can find the Semiotext[e] SF anthology, that is some prime weirdo stuff there, including the most twisted stuff by some well known authors. The university library in my town, not the most well stocked library I've been too, has it. https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?29574 I actually thought PKD was in it but not according to that link.

PKD is really unique, impossible to find anything like it.

There’s not much like PKD but you might find some overlap or just new interest in William Gibson, Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card (try the short stories), Vernor Vinge, David Foster Wallace, Neil Gaiman, Kafka, Lovecraft, Poe

What a coincidence finding this thread, I just finished Ubik. I read it a long time ago but had completely forgotten it and figured I should re-read it and just finished that re-reading before opening lainchan. It wasn't as good as I remembered, it felt like there was a lot of stuff that happened just cause, and a considerable amount of red herrings and potential chekhov's guns that never actually go off. I also wasn't super fond of how the whole inertial/telepath stuff was actually kind of superfluous, not really used after the first part of the book. Joe Chip was a good character overall though and I think it was a lot stronger in terms of it's background than it's main plot. What did everyone else think of Ubik? I might be the odd one out here because my favourite of his works has always been A Scanner Darkly which is quite different from his other works. In particular the line "If I knew it was harmless, I would have killed it myself", and the implications of that, has basically stuck with me all of my life.

>>8177 writer of yukikaze was described by someone as PKD of japan dunno if its true just sharing what i know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dhei_Kambayashi

I really enjoy PKD. Its always a pleasure to read his books - the mindflow is perfect, and even in russian translation SRY FOR BAD ENGRISH his books are keeping his own unique language. People often says Pelevin is russina PKD, but i havent read any of his books yet, so i cant say for sure. >>9133 Ubik is one of my favorites. Maybe its just me, but i think some PKD books like ubik or faith of our fathers is more of a "ride" experience, while others like free radio albemuth and man in the high castle are more personal -- while saving some drive, these are more slow and thought-provoking, where is certain personal theme is being explored throughout the book. Maybe thats why a scanner darkly feels so different - on this scale this is his most personal story.

is it just me or are ubik and three stigmata basically the same book

Neal Stephenson is aomething else entirely, one of his books is nigh impossible to decipher

>>9133 I'm currently reading A Scanner Darkly, after having finished Ubik last month. I loved Ubik. I think the confusion in some parts is a great literary device. The book mixes reality with a "dream" and leaves the reader guessing, mainly because of the unreliable narrator. I agree about Scanner being different. At first it felt weird, reading it almost directly after finishing Ubik. But after a while I got used to it. I haven't finished it yet, but I like it so far.