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* [[Downer Ending]] - Many. ''Second Variety'', ''Sales Pitch'', ''Faith of Our Fathers''...
** Occasionally a [[Bittersweet Ending]] may be evident, but you'll never find a [[Happily Ever After]] on PKD's side of science-fiction.
*** Except for his short story "The Defenders." The Eastern and Western Blocs built robots called "leadies" to carry out [[World War III]] as [[Robot War|proxies]] while humanity waited out the nuclear holocaust in underground shelters. The leadies promptly [[Turned Against Their Masters|turned against their masters' '''wishes''']] by stopping the war, cleaning up all the damage, and rebuilding -- although they didn't plan on telling the humans it was over until both sides were sick enough of living underground to be willing to accept peace. At the end, the spokes-leady tells a group of Americans and Russians who'd come out to explore that the species is almost ready to '''unite''' -- just a few more years -- following which humanity's achievements will be "unimaginably great." The leadies, at least, expected our "ever after" to be happy.
* [[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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