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Index
Studies in Major Literary Authors
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Introduction
PHILIP K. DICK’S UNUSUAL APPEAL
REALITY
HOW HUMANS PERCEIVE REALITY
WHAT IS HUMAN? HUMANITY AND HUMANNESS
WRITER AS AN AVANT-GARDE CULTURAL RECORDER
THE CONTESTED FUTURE
DICK’S SCIENCE FICTION
SOURCES AND UNIVERSALS
CONCLUSION
2 Biography of a Writer
EARLY YEARS
ANTHONY BOUCHER
1960S: THE TIMES FOR FABRICATION
1970S: THE TIMES OF TRIAL
1980S: AN APOGEE AND THE SUDDEN END
3 Martian Time Slip
DICK AND MARTIAN FICTIONS
DICK’S VIEW OF KOINOS-IDIOS COSMOS
THE TIME SLIP
AUTISM IN THE REAL WORLD
THE CORRESPONDING INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE
CONCLUSION
4 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
DO ANDROID SOULS GO TO HEAVEN?
MACHINE RELIGION FOR HUMAN BEINGS: MERCERISM
THE FORCE OF ENTROPY
TOWARD CONCLUSION
5 A Maze of Death
THEMES AND IDEAS
DIALOGUE WITH EXISTENTIALISM
MANUFACTURED REALITY: VIRTUAL REALITY AND TEXT
TECH RELIGION AND SUFFERING
THE FEARED, SWEET DEATH
SALVATION THROUGH FAITH
THE LOCATION OF TRUTH
6 A Scanner Darkly
DRUGS DON’T HAPPEN TO OTHERS
THE WORLD WIDE SCAN
THE ECONOMY OF DOPE
MORS ONTOLOGICA
7 The Search for Truth as an Antidote for Suffering in Valis
THE PROBLEM OF VALIS
THE ETERNAL RIDDLE: DEATH
“ONE IMMORTAL HUMAN BEING”
SEEING TIME AS SPACE
THE NARRATIVE ACT
ONWARD, AGAINST DEATH
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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