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NAZIISM AND THE HIGH CASTLE (1964)
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL ON HAWTHORNE ABENDSEN (1974)
THE TWO COMPLETED CHAPTERS OF A PROPOSED SEQUEL TO THE MAN IN THE
HIGH CASTLE (1964)
PART FOUR - PLOT PROPOSALS AND OUTLINES
JOE PROTAGORAS IS ALIVE AND LIVING ON EARTH (1967)
PLOT IDEA FOR MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1967)
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TV SERIES IDEA (1967)
NOTES ON DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (1968)
PART FIVE - ESSAYS AND SPEECHES
DRUGS, HALLUCINATION, AND THE QUEST FOR REALITY (1964)
SCHIZOPHRENIA & THE BOOK OF CHANGES (1965)
THE ANDROID AND THE HUMAN (1972)
MAN, ANDROID, AND MACHINE (1976)
IF YOU FIND THIS WORLD BAD, YOU SHOULD SEE SOME OF THE OTHERS (1977)
HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE THAT DOESN'T FALL APART TWO DAYS LATER (1978,
1985)
COSMOGONY AND COSMOLOGY (1978)
THE TAGORE LETTER (1981)
PART SIX - SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS
FROM THE EXEGESIS (C. 1975-80)
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INTRODUCTION
BY LAWRENCE SUTIN
This is a first-time collection, in book form, of significant nonfiction writings -- essays, journals,
plot scenarios, speeches, and interviews -- by Philip K. Dick from throughout his career. These
writings establish, I believe, that Dick was not only a visionary creator of speculative fiction but also
an illuminating and original thinker on issues ranging from the merging of quantum physics and
metaphysics; to the potential scope of virtual reality and its unforeseen personal and political
consequences; to the discomforting relation between schizophrenia (and other psychiatric diagnoses)
and societal "joint hallucinations"; to, not least, the challenge to primary human values posed in an age
of technological distance and spiritual despair.
The bulk of these writings have either never before been published, or have appeared only in
obscure and out-of-print publications. Dick saw himself first and foremost as a fiction writer, and
there can be no question that it is in his stories and his novels -- both science fiction (SF) and
mainstream -- that Dick's most permanent legacy resides. As for his nonfiction writings, those few
essays and speeches that he published in his lifetime attracted scant attention. In certain cases, this
was justified -- their style and quality were markedly uneven; indeed, the same may be said with
respect to the contents of this volume, many of which -- the Exegesis entries -- Dick had no
intention of publishing in his lifetime and hence no reason to revise and polish. (He may -- there is no
direct evidence in his private writings to support the supposition -- have hoped that they be
discovered and published after his death.)
But the lack of attention paid to Dick's nonfictional works is due to factors that go beyond
unevenness of quality. To this day one finds, in SF critical circles, sharp resistance to the notion that
Dick's ideas -- divorced from the immediate entertainment context of his fiction -- could possibly be
worthy of serious consideration. It is as if, for these critics, to declare that certain of Dick's ideas
make serious sense is to diminish his importance as the ultimate "mad" SF genius -- a patronizing role
assigned him by these selfsame critics. But it is nonsensical to maintain, in the face of the plain
evidence of the fictional texts themselves, not to mention his own writings on SF in this volume, that