The First Rule of AV Club
Some of my favorite stories were all written by the same person, Philip K. Dick. So I’m always on the lookout for more stories which remind me of those stories. If you’re similar, you may want to give a read to Walter Mosley’s Blue Light. It’s a story about a group of people around the San Francisco Bay Area who experience an uncanny blue light which changes them. They then work, together and apart, to change the world they live in. Or perhaps it’s the aftermath of a cult recorded by a delusional chronicler, an interpretation which would squint towards the inaccurate if not downright unreliable narrator.
I came to read this book not because it turned up in a search of stories like those PKD wrote but because when out walking near Berkeley one day at dusk, a pedestrian saw me and asked me if I read sf. When I acknowledged his intuition, he insisted that I seek out Walter Mosley’s science fiction stories.
People who might like this book
- Fans of PKD
- People who live, lived or want to live in Northern California
- Fans of the early stages of a utopia
People who might not like this book
- Those sensitive souls who think the past was a golden age where everyone was nice
- Those who need complete closure to a story
- Those who think the only interesting science fiction is the most currently written
