After having read 29 novels and dozens of short stories by my favorite author, this one surprised me with joy. This might be my favorite single novel by PKD. This is certainly the most focused, tight, and complete of all of his SF novels. Many of the other 29 novels I have read by PKD have lovely tangents, eddies in the current of the main plot, flavor added by PKD because of his strangely wonderful sensibilities, but VULCAN'S HAMMER is a tight laser beam of a plot. That is why this surprises me. I am used to much more pure angst and less plot. This has the clear plot of PKD's earlier work but still touches on the philosophical posers PKD fills his later works with. In later works, his questioning of what makes us human squeezes out plot, but this novel raises the questions with a (for PKD) clear cut answer. It still rises above melodrama (are there two sides fighting against each other? are you kidding? this is PKD, so there are at least three sides in conflict, none quite the opposite of the other), but it actually has a central hero (filled with some self-doubt) who commits himself to what he finds is the best way through a maze of moral issues. I love this book. I think it has become the book I recommend to those who have never read PKD before but whom I want to hook.

Vulcan'ın ÇekiciPhilip K. Dick · Alfa Yayıncılık · 2017201 okunma

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