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For years, the author of this book often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dick—though in fact he had never read any of the science fiction writer’s work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, during research, it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dick’s writing as well as a recognition of the author’s own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is this text, a thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. This book explores the science fiction author’s meditations on psychic reality and ... More
Keywords: science fiction, Philip K. Dick, sci-fi author, paranoid visionary, psychic reality, psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, modern spiritualism
Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816666652 |
Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816666652.001.0001 |
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