Puttering About In a Small Land

“One of the genuine visionaries that North American Fiction has produced.”

—L. A. Weekly

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

—The Sunday Times (London)

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

—Rolling Stone

“Published posthumously, this work is radically different from the famous science Fiction author’s past successes. It is a mood piece, a somber study of two young couples... a curious, oddly compelling book.... Turning each page... the reader Feels an odd suspense and a reluctance to abandon these Four unpredictable but somehow endearing people.”

— Booklist on Puttering About In a Small Land

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

—The Washington Post

“Cut[s] straight to the heart of the American Dream. These are real people Dick is writing about, the kind of morally complicated people you might find in any nearby store, and they each have their own dramas.”

—Rain Taxi

“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 California of the ’50s and early ’60s, the best of which occupy a reyion demarcated by Richard Yates on one side and Charles Willeford on the other. But accept it.”

—Jonathan Lethem