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Interrogating the importance of the writings of Philip K. Dick for critical cultural studies and social theory, the authors provide contextual and political readings of his work. Although H. G. Wells carried through a crucial science fiction breakthrough, Philip K. Dick emerges in the reading as the poet laureate of the postmodern adventure in his bleak and frightening portrayals of the future of global capitalism, interplanetary space travel and colonization, and the merging of humans and technology. Dick's stories and novels pursue the science fiction logic of 'what if?' - taking a premise about current social development and following through to its possible conclusions. Eschewing the hard science approach of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlen, Dick was more interested than other science fiction writers of his time in the philosophical interrogation of reality, the decline of human and social values, and providing warnings against future catastrophes of the human species and natural world.

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