Solar Lottery.

Just a twitch of the bottle is all it takes! Solar lottery is complete! Eagerly read across the span of numerous journeys sitting on trains and platforms with my nose stuck deep into Solar Lottery. What an interesting book! Thoroughly gripped me and like all PKD books had a few twists I never expected. Its also interesting to view the themes of the book (it being PKD's first published work) compared to later stories, and many key themes are there; synthetic life forms, space travel and illusion.

The key themes of the book develop slowly and gradually all is revealed to the reader (and the characters!) about the government and its nature.

Another highly enjoyable read! But I so desperately want to know how Ted Bentley gets on with his new position!

In other related news ... During one of my journeys accompanied by Solar Lottery I once again visited the PKD goldmine bookstall in search of some second hand gems. Much to my enjoyment I returned with 'The Game Players of Titan', 'The Cosmic Puppets' and 'Cantata-140', so I'm building up quite a PKD library on my desk!

And once again the question arises, what book next? I may ponder on that for a few days, but I am very eager to read 'I am Legend' by Richard Matheson, a move away from PKD, but I'm curious how the book compares to the various films. We shall see!

Gold mine!

Eureka! After around a month of searching the shelves of charity shops and book shops I found a Philip K Dick Gold mine! In an unlikely town in Shropshire I was taken to a large book stall (by my boyfriend whom rightly knew ‘just the place’ to take me) and to my amazement there they stood! Row after row of PKD books. Early prints, reissues, even several copies of the same book! I couldn’t believe my eyes. I began picking up books in some sort of frenzy, forming a pile of books. Carrying what I could I bought ‘Valis’ ‘Solar Lottery’ and ‘A Scanner Darkly’ and took them back to Derby, squeezed into my bag. In retrospective I wish Id bought more, but my bag was already bursting at the seams.

Sadly though, I was still avidly searching for ‘We can remember it for you Wholesale’.