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Why is PKD so popular? I've read around a half dozen or so of his books, including Man in the High Castle, UBIK, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and The Crack in Space.
Well, they have really great titles. And they are all exercises in paranoia. Hidden worlds, hidden universes, things you can't see, controlling your life.
This makes them popular in Hollywood, where everything is illusion (that's what they do, for your entertainment), and most of the decision-making goes on where the people on the receiving end of it can't see it. It's a worldview they can really understand.
But it's not my cup of tea.
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