Edited:To discover Dick's best sci-fi is to discover a hoard of treasure--but i stress PKD wrote his last about 5 books stating they were about reality disguised as "sci-fi"(idiots state this proves he was insane). One warning PKD was incredibly prolific and as he said, he was turning a story out a week just to pay for grocery bills, and they are not what PKD wishes to be remembered for:) There are a lot of trash biographies out about PKD lately so this particular author i express as the only PKD biographer and collector of his never before published "exegeses" that actually really knows His subject. This book is great introduction to PKD and lists and rates what are the must reads of PKD. He had 5 wives(one at a time:) and basically they spoke well of him but he was an obsessed writer/genius, basically impossible to live with when you have no money. Irony, PKD dropped dead just after finally hitting paydirt. He saw the premiere of "BladeRunner" and then died(i stress Ridley Scott was FURIOUS with the released version and worked years to finally get out the real "BladeRunner" , the Directors Cut, which has a dramatically different ending, much more disturbing, but true to PKD book--and he removed the voice over narration of Harrison Ford). If he were alive today he would be worth many many millions. After his death(1981) there were no PKD books in print. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786716231/qid=1118679765/sr=2-4/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_4/002-8305800.... In 1968 he wrote the book The Maze of Death, this was the basis from which the Matrix was stolen.