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richardf8 ([personal profile] richardf8) wrote2005-08-18 10:47 am
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I was pleased with this result.

I am:
Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers.


Which science fiction writer are you?



I think I've read more Heinlein than any other SciFi writer.

[identity profile] level-head.livejournal.com 2005-08-22 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. My apologies. In "VALIS" and some other related works Phillip K. Dick translates his own name to "Horselover Fat" -- that's the name of the main character. The description of the religious quests, divorce, drugs and jail time make you expect that these are events of Dick's own life.

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[identity profile] deckardcanine.livejournal.com 2005-08-22 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Apologies accepted. Some things are just hard to research by Google. :)

My personal experience with Dick's writings (as opposed to movies based on them) comprises The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Penultimate Truth, and a short story called "Colony." Of those, only the first was basically good the whole way thru. I was going to give him a last shot with Now Wait for Last Year, but an LJ Friend told me it's the worst case of Dick losing interest in his own story near the end.

[identity profile] level-head.livejournal.com 2005-08-22 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
This will give you a feel for Horselover Fat and VALIS -- it's a bizarre sort of fan-fiction, but quite close to the original in tone.

"Hussein’s restoration teams triggered a time dysfunction," Fat said. "Something they did there allowed the city to enter our time in its true form." (http://www.philipkdickfans.com/pkdweb/ReturnFat.htm)

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