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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

a reshuffle of bingo categories because this was just too elegant

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

August 28, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Sheep, I cannot believe that I missed this, I have recategorized Strangers: A Memoir as Versus This is one of those novels that’s always been kicking around in my brain box, because of course it has been. I listen to a track from Blade Runner as part of my work background music playlist, which is about 4.5 hours of scifi movie soundtracks, one track per movie (of ~3:50 in length), designed to be soothing and keep me focused during long allnighters (a consequence […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: cbrbingo18, Philip K. Dick

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:29 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: cbrbingo18, Philip K. Dick ·
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“Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites.”

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

July 17, 2026 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Jason Taverner, like me, is in his early forties. However, unlike me, he is an international superstar. Somewhere between a Kardashian, Jimmy Fallon, and Kelly Clarkson, Taverner is lab created to be a charismatic talk show hosting crooner. He is a “Six” – a special kind of genetically modified cool guy. There’s a schmooze-ness to him, sure, but he is undoubtedly magnetic. That’s why the whole world knows who he is, and why they buy his records. Until they don’t.  One day Taverner is minding […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Philip K. Dick

Halbs's CBR18 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Philip K. Dick ·
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Cover of Ubik by Philip K. Dick

The Best Dick is Mysterious Dick

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

August 14, 2025 by Halbs Leave a Comment

I’ve read a few PKD novels by now, and now my favorite by far is Ubik. It is a true mindfreak of a novel. It’s got all of the stuff that makes a great science fiction novel – interesting technology and culture, real philosophical questions, and plain old entertainment. I ditched my plans this weekend to read this whole thing in two days. I can’t stop thinking about it. The story starts simply enough. Down-on-his-luck Joe Chip works as an anti-psychic. That may sound exciting, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Philip K. Dick

Halbs's CBR17 Review No:15 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Philip K. Dick ·
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Very meta

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick

December 9, 2024 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

The Man in the High Castle is a speculative narrative – what would the world be like if the allied forces lost WWII? What would a life under a Nazi Germany and Japanese regime look like? The story loosely revolves around Frank, a pawn show owner is San Fran who trades in authentic American memorabilia. He is also, secretly, Jewish. Though he’s changed his physical appearance and voice so as to go undetected. Going into this novel, I hadn’t seen the TV series so cannot […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Philip K. Dick

Caesar's Wife's CBR16 Review No:20 · Genres: Audiobooks, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Philip K. Dick ·
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Philip K Dick

Collected Stories Volume 3 by Philip K Dick

April 24, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“Professor Anthony Douglas lowered gratefully into his red-leather easy chair and sighed. A long sigh, accompanied by a labored removal of his shoes and numerous grunts as he kicked them into the corner. He folded his hands across his ample middle and lay back, eyes, closed. ‘Tired?’ Laura Douglas, asked turning from the kitchen stove a moment, her dark eyes sympathetic.” In this third volume of Philip K Dick stories, we get a similarly varied collection of space, future, technology, magic, dimensional, and other kinds […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Philip K. Dick

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:266 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Philip K. Dick ·
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Spring Cleaning

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave

The Lemming Condition by Alan Arkin

Trump and Populism by Michael Kazin

How Do We Look by Mary Beard

Family Life by Russel Banks

Last Train from Perdition by Robert McCammon

The Rule of St Benedict by St Benedict

Theodore Roosevelt by Louis Auchincloss

April 4, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave “A young boy climbs a riverbank.” This tour memoir and more or less book of poetry opens up with the image above of a young boy climbing up a riverbank and feeling like he has a brush with a train passing close by. I was girding myself for the possibility that I had decided to read a book that Nick Cave write after the death of his son in a not impossibly similar situation. That would happen a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alan Arkin, Eugene O'Neill, Louis Auchincloss, Mary Beard, Michael Kazin, Nick Cave, Philip K. Dick, Robert McCammon, Russel Banks, St Benedict

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:223 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alan Arkin, Eugene O'Neill, Louis Auchincloss, Mary Beard, Michael Kazin, Nick Cave, Philip K. Dick, Robert McCammon, Russel Banks, St Benedict ·
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