You can stick to the novels after Man in High Castle. His SF novels before that were more quasi-parodic feeling 50s SF, with interesting ideas and slapdash cardboard people. He was looser and more interesting in the short stories, but some of them are a little boring to read. Apparently he wrote a lot of them in just a few days. It shows.
(some of them would be excellent sources of RPG plots though, or occasionally fucked up NPCs).
Starting with Man in High Castle, he combined his 'mainstream' characterisations with the crazy short story ideas. Many of his novels are expanded version of short stories, revisiting ideas he thought cool. He gets better as he goes on, gaining confidence and abandoned genreness or conventionality (at least in plotting) that he doesn't find useful.
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Date: 2007-03-07 22:01 (UTC)(some of them would be excellent sources of RPG plots though, or occasionally fucked up NPCs).
Starting with Man in High Castle, he combined his 'mainstream' characterisations with the crazy short story ideas. Many of his novels are expanded version of short stories, revisiting ideas he thought cool. He gets better as he goes on, gaining confidence and abandoned genreness or conventionality (at least in plotting) that he doesn't find useful.
What do you own?