Reality copied his worlds and now they seem overwrought. Just like how Tolkien made all kinds of stuff everyone copied, and now you get people with no historica

Reality copied his worlds and now they seem overwrought. Just like how Tolkien made all kinds of stuff everyone copied, and now you get people with no historical perspective calling him a hack for being derivative. Like most famous sci-fi writers, Phillip K. Dick likely worried about the things he wrote about and hoped technologists would take it as advice against when faced with the same choices as the people in the stories.