Philip K. Dick Research Paper

Annie Thach

Ms. Smith

Pre-AP English II

24 March 2015

One of the Best Sci-Fi Hallucinator: Philip K. Dick Science fiction is written because of it’s flexibility for writers to begin novels or any type of work just from their head that isn’t reality as of their time being. Science fiction writers like Ray Bradbury and Douglas Adam write mainly because they’re creative minds think about many things that can bring a book to life like Philip K. Dick. Philip K. Dick is one of the best science fiction writer because of his emotional being, cosmic hallucinations, philosophical understands, and literary reviews that affected and reflected his imaginative and ambiguous style. Having such an inventive mind, Dick’s emotions were in the process of ruining

In the majority of his works, “PKD at his best places his readers in situations where reality is not clearly defined” (philipkdicksfans.com 2). Most science fiction would have a direct parallel universe, but Dick makes the readers question what their beliefs are on the book’s reality and decide on their own. For example in Dick’s novel, Ubik, the main troopers would be living in one reality that then will be challenged by the head that was supposedly dead when he sends a message in a urinal for the first time (127). Another way Dick is able to create a fantastic novel is by contributing human emotions to his characters to make them more relatable for the audience, even though the characters are having an existential crisis for the majority of the read. Thus making Dick’s characters more interesting than usual in a science fiction because the audience wouldn’t expect characters to “find existence itself is a dilemma” (Umland 1). An example of this would be Stableford concluding that Dick’s book, Ubik, is “concerned not so much with problems of orientation as with more abstract questions about determinism and the essence of moral order” (6). In Ubik, the books is based on human actions that would depend on the main character’s action to see whether the team lives. In a large number of his books, Dick writes his characters experiencing “many elements of

For example, a review by Gopnik states that “Dick’s allegiance was not to literature but to writing and to the possibilities of writing as a form of protest and instant social satire” (2). Allowing the audience to inference the amount of emotions, thoughts, and passion that goes into Dick’s novels and short stories. Although Gopnik enjoyed reading Dick's novel, he asserts that one would definitely "end up admiring every one of his conceits and not a single one of his sentences" (7). In spite of this article being created after Dick died, Gopnik made interesting points in his review that brings together Dick's life and his writing