The Man in the High Castle, Dick's coolly rendered imaginings of Japanese-Nazi confrontation in occupied America, was his breakthrough work. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Ubik established him as one of the most hallucinatory yet insightful critics of late-capitalist American civilization. Wired caught Lethem as he was promoting his latest novel, You Don't Love Me Yet , to ask about this sanctification of Dick's oeuvre — or as Lethem calls it, his "irv. Wired: Vintage has some three dozen Philip K. Dick novels in print.
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Now he became aware of an insidious, seeping, cooling-off which at some earlier and unremembered time had begun to explore him—investigating him as well as the world around him. It reminded him of their final moments on Luna. The chill debased the surfaces of objects; it warped, expanded, showed itself as bulblike swellings that sighed audibly and popped. Into the manifold open wounds the cold drifted, all the way down into the heart of things, the core which made them live. What he saw now seemed to be a desert of ice from which stark boulders jutted. A wind spewed across the plain which reality had become; the wind congealed into deeper ice, and the boulders disappeared for the most part.
Philip K. Dick was the author of 36 novels and more than stories, including such celebrated works as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Convert currency. Add to Basket.
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