Philip K. Dick is, admittedly, not to everyone's taste, but some of his writing had a profound impact on my adolescent self. Most striking to me were his last works (Valis, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer) that took a more -- dare I say it? -- philosophical tack and drew on a personal experience of Dick in which he believed that he'd received divine insight in the form of a beam of pink light. Now, for the first time, the 8000 page manuscript he produced in which he tried to make sense of that experience (his "Exegesis") will see the light of day in published form for the first time. Paranoiac vision mixed with theological and philosophical ramblings... what's not to love?
Mark Lipton
Mark Lipton