Humpty Dumpty in Oakland

“A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a Prophet.”

—The New York Times

“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction.”

—The Sunday Times (London)

“Remarkable... echoes of Dick’s contemporaries such as Ralph Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler, and early Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., resonate, and a bonus exists in Dick’s impeccable eye for detail Dick’s fans will be in rapture.”

—Publishers Weekly on Voices from the Street

“It may be hard For some to accept that the same writer who recently snuck into the American canon as a visionary and paranoid pop surrealist also penned a half dozen or more proletarian-realist novels set in the Californio of the ’50s and early ’60s, the best of which occupy a region demarcated by Richard Yates on one side and Charles Willeford on the other. But accept it.”

—Jonathan Letham

“Well written, it is a welcome addition to this author’s large and brilliant canon.”

—Booklist on Voices from the Street

“Philip K. Dick has chosen to handle material too nutty to accept, too admonitory to Forget, too haunting to abandon.”

—The Washington Post

“[Dick] sees all the sparkling-and terrifying—possibilities that other authors shy away from.”

—Paul Williams, Rolling Stone

“Dick was one of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced.”

—L.A. Weekly

“When it comes to intellectually challenging and deeply philosophical grist for contemporary screenwriters, few literary minds have been as reliably fertile as that of the late science fiction master Philip K. Dick.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“Working in territory later mined by Richard Yates and Raymond Carver—that is, the psyche of the middle-aged white male-Dick acquits himself well.”

—Entertainment Weekly on Voices from the Street