American Writers (One Hundred Pages at a Time)

I am back from the USA! Thanks for waiting. Here is the next part on Solar Lottery. It is a very action and plot-heavy section, but still has some great Philip K. Dick themes to explore.

In this episode, I look at the second half of John Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven. Sorry for the delays in publishing these episodes. I am enjoying my summer in Wisconsin. Things will get more regular when I get back to Taiwan.

Part three of Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery.

Part two (Chapter 4-6) of Philp K. Dick's Solar Lottery. In a  world based on randomness, anything can happen.

And we come to Dick's first novel, Solar Lottery. In this episode we will look at the first three chapters of the book, which does a lot to set up the setting and the world.

Philip K. Dick takes on Zeno's paradox in "The Indegatigable Frog".

In this episode we start a new series on John Steinbeck, beginning with his novel of short stories The Pastures of Heaven.

In this episode of the Philip K. Dick Book Club we take on one of my favorite early Dick stories (novella to be honest), "The Variable Man". (I mention that Hollywood never took on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but I was wrote. There was a 1944 adaptation. I stand by that my claim that this could make a good movie if revisted.) Let me know what you think? Does "The Variable Man" deserve more love?

In this episode we say goodbye to my favorite founder, Thomas Paine, as we look at the second part of Age of Reason. Next up....John Steinbeck.

What happens when the bugs decide to do us in? What if the real ancient old ones are insects? Find out in episode of the Philip K. Dick Book as we look at "Expendable".