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Ironic, given that a hallmark of a "Phildickian" work is that the protagonist's reality can fall apart before the end of the work. https://philipdick.com/liter

Ironic, given that a hallmark of a "Phildickian" work is that the protagonist's reality can fall apart before the end of the work. https://philipdick.com/literary-criticism/essays/phildickian-a-definition https://philipdick.com/literary-criticism/essays/phildickian...

Barrin92 3y ago
Even casually throughout his stories. There's a great scene in Ubik where a group plans a heist and the there's a weird shift in reality just in the middle of a conversation basically. Dick was fantastic at creating these disorienting, unnerving situations.
robocat 3y ago
From article: I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem. I have a secret love of chaos.
defrost 3y ago
In PKD's own words, in the linked article: However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem. I have a secret love of chaos. There should be more of it. Do not believe — and I am dead serious when I say this — do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe.
- KingFelix 3y ago
  If you like Pkd you should for sure read Borges work. He wrote a lot about this. Labyrinths is a great collection of his work lots of world building that falls apart.

Barrin92 3y ago

Even casually throughout his stories. There's a great scene in Ubik where a group plans a heist and the there's a weird shift in reality just in the middle of a conversation basically. Dick was fantastic at creating these disorienting, unnerving situations.

robocat 3y ago

From article: I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem. I have a secret love of chaos.

defrost 3y ago

In PKD's own words, in the linked article: However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem. I have a secret love of chaos. There should be more of it. Do not believe — and I am dead serious when I say this — do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe.

KingFelix 3y ago
If you like Pkd you should for sure read Borges work. He wrote a lot about this. Labyrinths is a great collection of his work lots of world building that falls apart.