'The Game Players of Titan' - book review

I suspect Philip K Dick is one of those love him or hate him writers and I suspect I'm going to fall into the latter category.

On the evidence of this book, he appears to like the weird for the sake of it being weird and not to worry too much about making it all hang together rationally.
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I love the NHS

Just to balance downright incorrect propaganda on other parts of the web...

I had both my children in NHS hospitals.  I had easy births both times and friendly, helpful nurses.

I had an emergency appendix operation the same day that my doctor referred me to hospital after I had a pain in my side.

I had radiotherapy for my Dupuytren's Contracture (I had to argue for it, but it was a treatment unknown in the UK at that time and the system eventually took on board the German research and gave me what I requested)

I've had nothing but friendly, effective help for recent 'female' problems.

I get medication for my asthma at a price I could afford even when my husband was out of work.

I've just had an MRI to investigate the causes of my ongoing vertigo and I'm seeing the specialist again next week.

My husband's dislocated his patella three times (which is incredibly painful) and had plaster, physiotherapy, etc. on the NHS (not forgetting the ambulances).

We'd better not forget treatment for concussion, visits to casualty with severe asthma, health checkups, an upcoming eye operation and other things that I'm sure will happen to the family in years to come.

For part of our lives, we had medical insurance as a job perk. All of the things I've listed above were treated on the NHS.

Do I love the NHS?

You bet I do.