Tuesday, March 22, 2016

PKD: Brief Note

Reading Philip K. Dick as if he is a science fiction writer brings limitations. To me his novels read like subtle allegories dealing with moral choice, confrontations with (or resolutions of) ambiguity, the vague yet sharp limits imposed upon us by politics and nature.

4 comments:

ilTassista Marino said...

Meaning that non-Philip-Dick science fiction does NOT deal with such subjects? why not?

Carter Kaplan said...

Dear Socrates, Jr:

Of course not. I simply meant what I said! :-P

Vitasta Raina said...

hey man, get a twitter handle.

Carter Kaplan said...

Hey, sister, I have social media coming out my ears!

(OK, where do I go do that?)