Voices From The Street - Philip K. Dick
Conventional literary criticism has it that it was the wealth of ideas that redeemed the cheap pulp writing of Dick’s churn-em-out science-fiction novels, and that the unpublished mainstream novels were unpublished for a reason - they just weren’t very good. Don’t you believe it. Voices From The Street is written from the heart, the characters fully alive and real, their fears, weaknesses, hopes and illusions are all Dick’s own and they are depicted with passion and sincerity. All the familiar characters and situations are there, whether it’s in PKD’s science-fiction work or his mainstream fiction – little men with deep character flaws, clerks and salesmen, toiling away in dead-end jobs in radio and TV stores, uncertain of their futures, unhappy in their relationships, desperately searching for something to give their lives meaning. Make the most of it – this is the last “new” Philip K. Dick book we are ever likely to have the pleasure of reading and it’s a fine book.