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Philip Kindred Dick (1928-1982) was a [[Science Fiction]] author who wrote many influential novels. Throughout his life, he suffered -- or benefitted -- from severe hallucinations and a distorted view of reality. His novels reflect this, and his writing made him one of the most beloved and most critically acclaimed writers in the sci-fi genre.
Dick's characters typically spend much of his work wondering who they are, and whether their memories are real or fake. His stories often dealt with reality as illusion, [[
He is known for writing some of the first [[Grey Goo]] stories and for writing about [[Post Modernism]] before it caught on in the academic world. He wrote serious existential and theological treatises within the context of futuristic science-fiction stories, when science-fiction novels were still in their infancy and considered as childish and peripheral by the majority of the literary world. He was one of the first authors to use fantasy and science-fiction to discuss taboo and socially risqué subjects, contemplating ideas that wouldn't be discussed in mainstream academia for decades. He mixed, deconstructed, and reconstructed philosophical and psychological ideology from everything from Carl Jung and his theories on collective consciousness through to Jean-Paul Sartre and his theories on individualism, constantly searching to define and challenge reality and the human mind. Some of his stories have been cited by big-name philosophers like Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Zizek.
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* [[Fisher Kingdom]] - The various worlds of ''Eye In the Sky'' started twisting visitors to match their worldviews. {{spoiler|Because each "world" was in fact inside someone's head in a sort of shared hallucination.}}
* [[Genre Savvy]] - the majority of Philip Dick's protagonists are paranoid enough to consider the possibility that they are unreal constructs of a hallucination, subjects of an experiment of a higher power, or constantly slipping between alterable states of reality. Exhibit A: in ''Cosmic Puppets'' the male protagonist returns to his home town to find that what he remembered never existed and the ''first'' thing he thinks of is the possibility that someone implanted false memories into his mind in order to manipulate him for nefarious causes... unfortunately he isn't [[Genre Savvy]] ''enough'' to listen to his first instinct that he should leave the town before he gets stuck there.
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* [[God Is Evil]] - Considering his obsession with Gnosticism, this isn't surprising. "Faith Of Our Fathers" was the first really well-known [[God Is Evil]] SF story.
** Mostly it comes in the form of either "[[Oh Crap|the Demiurge suddenly got interested in your life]]", or "the complete/higher God was looking the other way when the Demiurge decided to [[Kick the Dog]]" (with the Dog in this case being one of PKD's protagonists).
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