The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick : A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels

Rossi, Umberto

McFarland & Co Inc（2011/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 316 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786448838
• DDC分類 813.54

Full Description

Philip K. Dick was one of the most popular science fiction novelists of the 20th century, but the contradictory and wily writer has troubled critics who attempt encompassing explanations of his work. This book examines Dick's writing through the lens of ontological uncertainty, providing a comparative map of his oeuvre, tracing both the interior connections between books and his allusive intertextuality. Topics covered include time travel, alternate worlds, androids and simulacra, finite subjective realities and schizophrenia. Twenty novels are explored in detail, including titles that have received scant critical attention. Some of his most important short stories and two of his realist novels are also examined, providing a general introduction to Dick's body of work.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

 1. The Game of the Rat (and Its Players): The Cosmic Puppets

and The Game­Players of Titan

 2. "The Enemy That's Everywhere Around Us": Alternate Worlds in Eye in the Sky and Time Out of Joint

 3. Obscure Admixtures: The Man in the High Castle Considered as a (Cold) War Novel

 4. A Maze of Lives: Martian ­Time-­Slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, and Clans of the Alphane Moon

 5. Time Travels and Historical Manipulation: The Simulacra, Now Wait for Last Year and The Penultimate Truth

 6. The Android Cogito: We Can Build You and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

 7. Psychedelic Demiurges: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, A Maze of Death and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

 8. Amateur Questers: VALIS and Its Quandaries

 9. The God from Outer Space: Reconsidering the Divine Invasion

10. A Counterfactual Counterculture: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Notes

Bibliography

Index