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The Skull (2000)

by Philip K. Dick(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: I am a big fan of short Dick stories...wait...umm...I am a big fan of Dick...ughhh. Yeah, I'm too immature to write a good review on this stuff. In all seriousness, I have been a bigger fan of some of his other stuff. Perhaps this was fresher when it hit the street, but you saw this unfolding the way it did by page 3. The were no real surprises and nothing really all that neat to make up for its predictability. The scenes that were meant to be haunting had zero punch because you were just waiting for it anyway. Not a horrible little story, but it was nothing special either.
review 2: I listened to a podcast version of this short story on "The Classic Tales Podcast" with narrator B.J. Harrison. The brevity matches the predictability, but it does raise some ... moreinteresting issues. The basic setup: a time-traveling assassin intends to stop the rise of an anti-war religion, only to make a startling realization about he identity of the founder's identity. That doesn't count as a spoiler, because you already know where it's going. less

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