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Jun. 8th, 2007
June 8, 2007
Editorial Observer
Philip K. Dick: A Sage of the Future Whose Time Has Finally Come
By BRENT STAPLES
Philip K. Dick was still an obscure pulp novelist known mainly to teenage boys when a friend predicted that he would one day have more impact on the world than celebrated writers like William Faulkner, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. The prediction seemed almost delusional in the 1960s, when Dick was popping pills around the clock and churning out novels in a science fiction ghetto from which he seemed destined never to escape. More
Editorial Observer
Philip K. Dick: A Sage of the Future Whose Time Has Finally Come
By BRENT STAPLES
Philip K. Dick was still an obscure pulp novelist known mainly to teenage boys when a friend predicted that he would one day have more impact on the world than celebrated writers like William Faulkner, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. The prediction seemed almost delusional in the 1960s, when Dick was popping pills around the clock and churning out novels in a science fiction ghetto from which he seemed destined never to escape. More
