A Life of Fantasy; A Literature of Fantasy A Literature of Fantasy
Selfish personal reasons aside, I truly wish PKD had lived to see this new century- it seems to have elements of Blade Runner mixed with Mad Max...
His heroes, with off-the-cuff names like Joe Chip and Luba Luft, wear their troubles on their sleeves. Barney Mayerson, the psychic marketing consultant from "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," never goes anywhere without Dr. Smile, a virtual psychiatrist he keeps stowed in a briefcase. Joe Chip, the baffled antihero of "Ubik," has to argue down his door before it'll let him leave the apartment...
'Slippery Jim' would no doubt pick 'le moment juste' to trump Mugabe. ;^)