"The Man in the High Castle" and its impact on Pynchon's work

[Robin Landseadel]

And "A Scanner Darkly" is one of the most intellectually honest  
Dystopias I've read.

I find early PKD -- like "Man in the High Castle" -- clunky and tone- 
deaf. But his later work is more interesting, that flat-affect dialog  
becomes increasingly plausible as PKD's clock runs down and the  
paranoia level ramps up. By the time we get to "The Transmigration of  
Timothy Archer," we've got a real writer on our hands.

On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Joe Allonby wrote:

> I like his concepts. The "Valis Trilogy" reads almost like the work of
> another author compared to the rest of his stuff.