Quote from: Voros;1004137When you say stories do you mean short stories or novels? He was a merely adequete short story writer, his best acomplishments are novels. He also ground out half-formed novels at an insane rate, later with the 'help' of speed.

So he is very uneven and not helped by the fact that his cult populairty had lead to every single of of his novels, no matter their quality, having been republished. So his best novels are drowned in a sea of mediocrity.

His reputation would be better served if they just kept his best half dozen novels in print, of those I've read Man in High Castle easily remains the high point. Martian Time Slip is next.

Lessee... Androids... novel? It wasn't terribly long.  Man in the High Castle? Gave up on it because I couldn't get over his obsession with the I-ching. I have the I-Ching. If I want to read the I-Ching I'll fucking just READ THE FUCKING I-CHING! Not.. you know... the Man in the High Castle.  

And one other that I can't remember the name of that was supposedly about some doctor with a super-tech surgery cyberhand? Only it was about post-surgery trans prostituites?  I don't know, it was shit, the first Dick story I read and I kept waiting for the actual plot to start. But it was novel sized, so...

Of the three the only one that didn't irritate me was Androids, and I still didn't really like it.  Lots of interesting ideas but, as I said, shoddy execution.  So oh-and-three, which is pretty much enough for me to write him off entirely.

Androids was always considered second-rate til Bladerunner came out. I have no idea what book you're referring to regarding the surgeon, doesn't even sound like Dick but as I said he knocked off loads of inferior books. You can't judge any writer from a random selection of over 30-40 novels. Man in High Castle is a slow burn, there isn't that much about the I Ching in it.