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General BattleTech Discussion / Re: Upcoming Releases XXIX: First Annual 29th Birthday
« Last post by I am Belch II on Today at 11:08:07 »My delivery date got pushed back from Fri to Mon. That really sucks.
The book store will never carry his Exegesis, while some of his lesser known works like the tripple stigmata of palmer eldritch or Valis will be harder to come by. Try your county library and save a buck. When my family grew more accustomed to using the request features and how accessible the online library sites are, it becomes very easy to get a book from a neighboring stock brought in. To say nothing of the amount of money you save if your children are also devouring books.I live full time overseas as an expat, and books are an easy, minimal expense.
As much as I loved PKD as a teenager and in my early 20's, he did a lot of harm to the Science Fiction community with an elitist type mindset for American authors in creating a group mind that should or shouldn't approve who is acknowledged or not by "the best" in the genre. And that goes a long way for a person who is just plainly an author and story weaver. He's a product of his time with space flight and "martian canals" being discovered and the heavy psychotropic scene exploding. In the end, he was never honest with the vision he was given and this caused as much consternation in him personally that he became a facsimile of many of his protagonists. He was very much like HG Wells.I disagree. PKD wasnt a planned futurist like Wells was. The former had mental issues (no doubt exacerbated by his drug taking), and he wrote about his fears and paranoia. Its somewhat coincidental that his anxieties with technology, and the stuff he wrote about them has actually come true, much like George Orwell and his warnings of an all-powerful surveillance state in 1984 also became real.
I'll plan to make it out for this. Been getting lots of pickup games in lately so I'll probably be a little more useful than I was last time.
I really like that Grizzly!Agreed, with that camo scheme the Grizzly is a beauty. Any tips or suggestions for making your camo colors so clean and sharp, please? I've struggled painting ghostbear winter schemes.