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Page 319
... Dick's career - from We Can Build You ( wr . 1962 ; pub . 1972 ) to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ( wr . 1966 ; pub.1968 ) and Ubik ( wr . 1966 ; pub . 1969 ) on — a trajectory leading from the malevolent weakening of boundaries ...
... Dick's career - from We Can Build You ( wr . 1962 ; pub . 1972 ) to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ( wr . 1966 ; pub.1968 ) and Ubik ( wr . 1966 ; pub . 1969 ) on — a trajectory leading from the malevolent weakening of boundaries ...
Page 320
... Dick , for example , rich as it is , misses an important opportunity by not seeing the link between Bateson's theory of the double - bind and Dick's worldview . That theory , which was well - known in the San Francisco Bay Area culture ...
... Dick , for example , rich as it is , misses an important opportunity by not seeing the link between Bateson's theory of the double - bind and Dick's worldview . That theory , which was well - known in the San Francisco Bay Area culture ...
Page 321
... Dick cannot be underestimated , in my view , for Dick considered both his own personal existence and the historical condition of the human species as a double - bind on such a grand scale that the very substance of reality was deranged ...
... Dick cannot be underestimated , in my view , for Dick considered both his own personal existence and the historical condition of the human species as a double - bind on such a grand scale that the very substance of reality was deranged ...
Contents
Gary Westfahl The Popular Tradition of Science Fiction | 187 |
Hassler The Academic Pioneers of Science Fiction | 213 |
OTHER ARTICLES | 284 |
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