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Philip K Dick - Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern (Paperback)
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Philip K Dick - Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 27
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Once solely the possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip
K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the
films "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report" shows. The kind of world
he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is
coming closer to most of us: shifting realities, unstable
relations, uncertain moralities. "Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and
Terror of the Postmodern" examines a wide range of Dick's work,
including his short stories and posthumously published realist
novels. Christopher Palmer analyzes the puzzling and dazzling
effects of Dick's fiction, and argues that at its heart is a clash
between exhilarating possibilities of transformation, and a
frightening lack of ethical certainties. Dick's work is seen as the
inscription of his own historical predicament, the clash between
humanism and postmodernism being played out in the complex forms of
the fiction. The problem is never resolved, but Dick's ways of
imagining it become steadily more ingenious and challenging.
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