[HN Gopher] Philip K. Dick: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't...
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Philip K. Dick: How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two
Days Later
Author : okareaman
Score : 8 points
Date : 2021-10-23 22:12 UTC (48 minutes ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (urbigenous.net)
| 1MachineElf wrote:
| This is a long read and I fully intend to digest it, but I must
| say that my favorite thing about the PKD books that I have
| read[0][1] is usually that part when the universe literally
| and/or figuratively falls apart. In other words, his science
| fiction novels tend to present a plot that involves radical
| changes to our understanding of how the world works. Upon
| skimming this submission, there are also twists in the stories he
| tells here which subvert our understanding of conventional
| things.
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| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis_(novel)
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