Dystopias tend toward fantasies of absolute control, in which the system sees all, knows all, and controls all. Yeah, I greatly admire works that can show a di

Dystopias tend toward fantasies of absolute control, in which the system sees all, knows all, and controls all. Yeah, I greatly admire works that can show a diverse ecology instead of trying to say that an entire world is controlled by a single entity. It just feels stale. Kim Stanley Robinson (who wrote his PHD thesis on Dick's works [0]) is really good at building an ecology of interesting elements that interact and create complexity. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Novels-Philip-Studies-Speculative-Fiction/dp/0835720144 https://www.amazon.com/Novels-Philip-Studies-Speculative-Fic...