Dick as a nihilist with a sense of humor. Actually, I would love to see those dogs perform their Shakespeare at the Globe Theater in London.Īmerican New Wave SF author Philip K.

One of my favorite parts: Al Miller and his partner Ian Duncan audition at the White House to play Beethoven sonatas on their jugs but, alas, the talent scout tells them 'no.'Īl and Ian must leave the stage to make way for the next act: a group of dogs all dressed up in Elizabethan costumes for an authentic performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet. You want Nazi conspiracies, you want AI versions of Martians, you want a critique of psychoanalysis, you want intellectual Neanderthals, you want Bach and Mozart played by jug artists? If so, you've found your novel. So much PKD craziness, so many plots and subplots, it is as if the great SF author had notes in his bottom drawer for a dozen novels and decided to combine them all into one mind-blowing extravaganza.

Like the gent above in TLP's story, immerse your brain waves in a cogibundity of cogitation by reading PKD's The Simulacra. 'He wandered about the ample pile, or along the garden-terrace, with 'his cogitative faculties immersed in cogibundity of cogitation.'' - Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey 'He wandered about the ample pile, or along the garden-terrace, with 'his cogitative faculties immersed in cogibundity of cogitation.'' - Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey Like the gent above in TLP's story, immerse your brain waves in a cogibundity of cogitation by reading PKD's The Simulacra. Dick brings this story to a crashing conclusion and in classic fashion shows there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.more

And the fascistic Bertold Goltz is trying to overthrow the government. Richard Kongrosian refuses to see anyone because he is convinced his body odor is lethal. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has never met. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to practice in a world full of the maladjusted. Ian Duncan is desperately in love with the first lady, Nicole Thibideaux, who he has Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android. Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android.

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