附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-248) and index.
Philip K. Dick and the postmodern -- Complications of humanism and postmodernism -- Static and kinetic in Dick's political unconscious -- Mired in the sex war: Dick's realist novels of the fifties -- The short stories: Philip K. Dick and the nuclear family -- The man in the high castle: the reasonableness and madness of history -- Eating and being eaten: dangerous deities and depleted consumers -- Critique and fantasy in Martian time-slip and Clans of the Alphane moon -- Critical reason and romantic idealism in Martian time-slip -- A scanner darkly: postmodern society and the end of difference -- Gestures, anecdotes, visions: formal recourses of humanism -- Postmodernism and the birth of the author in Valis.
摘要:The author discusses Dick's SF writing from two perspectives. The first is a consideration of Dick's fiction as a depiction of and response to postmodernity whilst the second considers Dick's form and genre in a broader, more general sense.
