I’ve been collecting Philip K. Dick books for about 20 years. I thought I had all ~45 novels but I was going through my collection last night, straightening out the shelf, and much to my dismay I seem to be missing a few: "The Cosmic Puppets", "Time Out of Joint" and "Radio Free Albemuth". Those are all novels which I vaguely remember loaning to some person or persons but can’t remember who. Looking at the online bookographies there are a couple of others I don’t have as well: "Gather Yourselves Together", an early novel I never knew existed, and "Cantata-140" which is just "The Crack In Space" under a different name, so therefore I don’t really need it. There are tons of short stories I don’t have too; I really need to get the 3 thru 5 volumes of the Collected Stories books if I want to make a dent in those.
They have a talking PKD robot-head at the NextFest at Navy Pier, how far out is that? I’m going to try to have a lil’ talk with him this weekend. Whee!! God, I love living in Chicago.
Why don’t I use the "more" section of this post to keep a list of my collection? It’ll seem totally anal and stupid to anybody but a fellow PKD fan, but what do I care?
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