Originally published at: The best "paranoid science fiction" books | Boing Boing
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The phrase ‘paranoid science fiction’ automatically brings Philip K Dick to mind. (PKD FTW!)
Macmillan had a series entitled “The Best of Soviet Science Fiction”, which included stuff by the Strugatsky brothers that qualifies.
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Glad the Strugatsky Bros made this list. I would love to have seen Lem’s Memoirs Found in a Bathtub in the mix as well.
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Two “more PDK than PKD” suggestions: Ursula Le Guin ‘the Lathe of Heaven’ and K. W. Jeter "Dr Adder. The latter contains a character who is a somewhat unflattering parody of Jeter’s friend PKD
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How about a list of movies of this genre?
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As well as several of the Pirx stories.
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Sinister Barrier, anyone? One of our foundational paranoid SF novels.
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How about Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by the inimitable Stanislaw Lem?
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