Fruitful, Consuming Paranoia: A Sci-Fi Master’s Madness: Sam Munson has a book review in the New York Observer on the latest biography of Philip K. Dick. Quote: "The progression from Blade Runner through Total Recall to Paycheck has all the hallmarks of one of his stories—black irony, psychological degradation, and the implication of a vast conspiracy organized to deceive and persecute one man. The young Dick would have written it as a dark comedy, the older as a bizarre Christian fable. Dick’s journey from neurotic bohemian to full-blown religious psychotic is as fascinating a tale as anything he ever wrote [...] Mr. Carrère [...] has seized on the fact that Dick’s books resulted, almost uniformly, from progressively more serious derangements of his psyche." Link
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