Divine invasions

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1. atombenderApr 2025
   Minor point, but in most cases the title was made up by the editor, not Dick.

   For example, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? had several terrible tentative titles originally, including "The Electric Toad", "Do Androids Dream?", "The Electric Sheep", and, most improbably, "The Killers Are Among Us! Cried Rick Deckard to the Special Man".

   Dick's editor at Doubleday came up with the current title. Dick didn't like it and thought it was too long and unwieldy.

   Some more:

   * The Divine Invasion: "VALIS Regained"

   * The Transmigration of Timothy Archer: "Bishop Timothy Archer

   * Ubik: "Death of an Anti-Watcher"

   * Martian Time-Slip: "Goodmember Arnie Kott of Mars" (also serialized as "All We Marsmen" before getting its current title)

   * We Can Build You: "The First in Your Family"

   * A Maze of Death: "The Hour of the TENCH"

   * Counterclock World: "The Dead Grow Young"

   My main source here is Lawrence Sutin's excellent "Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick".

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2. TrasmattaNov 2023
   I'm a simple man, I see a PKD post, I upvote and comment. My favorite author.

   Highly recommend the biography Divine Invasions. He was such a fascinating (and troubled) person.

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3. TrasmattaMay 2023
   And if anyone wants to get into PKD, I highly recommend the following books:

   * Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

   * Ubik

   * The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

   * A Scanner Darkly

   * VALIS (but probably not until you've read some of his others, and also read a bit about his life, because it's pseudo-autobiographical)

   I just finished reading a biography of him called "Divine Invasions" (not to be confused with his book "The Divine Invasion", which is roughly a sequel to VALIS), which I recommend as well. PKD was an utterly brilliant, fascinating, and sadly broken man.

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4. PamarMay 2023
   I heartily recommend "Divine Invasions" by Sutin (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22587.Divine_Invasions) to anyone who would like to know more about Dick's life and personal issues, and the way these influenced his works.
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5. TrasmattaMay 2023
   If anyone would really like to delve into PKD's life, I'd recommend the biography Divine Invasions (not to be confused with PKD's books "The Divine Invasion"). He was such a deeply fascinating person, and I feel like most articles you read about him manage to only touch on the obvious or superficial.
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