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Originally Posted by SynthethicalY
Dead-Air, I've been meaning to get into P.K.D. any suggestions on where I should start?
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Heh. See above. Seriously,
Now Wait for Last Year is brilliant.
Valis is considered by many his masterwork, but I would start with a few easier reads (not that you couldn't handle it, just that it pays to get to know him first.) Keep in mind that he wrote a lot of books on speed to pay the bills, so he reused a few plots at times. Still though many of those books are flawed, they still have great paranoid bits of altered reality making them worthwhile.
His other most critically acclaimed book is
The Man in the High Castle, which is a more "traditional" read. It's an alternate history where we lost WWII, which was a lot more of an original idea when he wrote the book than it might seem today.
I've actually never read
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, out of fear Bladerunner might ruin it for me. Still, it's supposed to be quite good.
Ubik is another good weird, druggy, SF book about the nature of consciousness.