Blows Against the Empire

A great article from Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, on the amazing writer and reluctant futurist, Philip K. Dick.

Of all American writers, none have got the genre-hack-to-hidden-genius treatment quite so fully as Philip K. Dick, the California-raised and based science-fiction writer who, beginning in the nineteen-fifties, wrote thirty-six speed-fuelled novels, went crazy in the early seventies, and died in 1982, only fifty-three.

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