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drokhole Donating Member (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 05:23 PM
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4. VALIS was based on and contained some of Phil's "Exegesis"...
Edited on Thu Nov-17-11 05:42 PM by drokhole
...but these are the actual writings themselves - meaning, it's not set to a story (but the editors have presented it in a coherent way), and it's much more wider in scope. Some of it has been released here and there (including in the VALIS trilogy), but the majority had remained unpublished. Even now, his actual material spanned over 8,000 pages - but, here, editors and leagues of annotators/researches have done their best to condense it into something comprehensive and coherent, with end- and footnotes for some clarity (still, this clocks in at over 900 pages...though they mention in the foreward the possibility of an eventual release of the 8000 pages untouched, which would serve scholarly purposes more than anything). In short, a lot of it is "new" - or, more accurately, has never been released.

Philip K. Dick was actually featured last night on the Science program Prophets of Science Fiction, produced by Ridley Scott. It was pretty good. They talked mainly about the prevalence of surveillance, "realistic" androids (some lab made one that looks eerily like Phil himself), "pre-cog" crime prevention (using statistics), and even touched on the possibility of alternate realities/multiple dimensions (with theoretical physicist Michio Kaku providing commentary) - but they largely shied away from his more political books like The Simulacra.
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