> Ok, I love Science Fiction books, but only if
>they're a certain type. I can't stand too much
>scientific conversations like in "Xenocide" by
>Orson Scott Card. But, I LOVE "Ender's
>Game", "Ender's Shadow", "Shadow of the
>Hegemon" and "Shadow Puppets". So tell me, will
>PKD's works be more similar to "Ender's Game"
>where there are scientific and philosophic
>conversations, but more story, or will it be
>more like "Xenocide" where I'll be bored with a
>3 page conversation about plants and how they
>grow? I'm always in search of new great
>author's to explore. G'day.

Trust me, NOTHING is as boring as _Xenocide_/_Children of the Mind_. They're easily the worst Card books I've ever read. Nobody in them can make a simple decision without agonizing over it for pages, and everyone has these big huge long conversations about crap that nobody cares about and you spend the whole time wishing they'd just GET ON WITH THE STORY, such as it is, since the story itself was pretty craptastic.

Anyway, that being said, PKD tends to just assume things rather than explain them in great depth. If he wants a certain invention to exist, he just puts it in and you just assume it works the way he says it does. The point of his fiction isn't to spend pages explaining the inner workings of gadgets like a lot of "hard" SF writers. So I'm sure if you like _Ender's Game_ type SF, you'll like PKD well enough.

Of course, I always get the impression that PKD wrote his books half-straight and half tripping on LSD (which, actually, probably isn't far from the truth) so you may not like his fiction because of the way it warps your sense of reality.

-- Dave