The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick - Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995) is a collection of Dick's nonfiction writings, edited by Lawrence Sutin, gathering essays, journal entries, speeches, plot scenarios, and interviews from across his career. Most of the material had either never been published or had appeared only in obscure, out-of-print sources. The collection includes two completed chapters of a proposed sequel to The Man in the High Castle, selections from the Exegesis, and major essays such as "The Android and the Human" and "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others." Also included is a lengthy Exegesis entry on Gnostic theology, a 1964 essay on hallucination and reality perception, and a frank epistolary interview in which Dick summarizes his philosophical development from high school onward. Sutin's introduction situates Dick's nonfiction within the broader arc of his posthumous critical rehabilitation, tracing the journey from pulp genre writer to a figure compared, by critics and fellow authors alike, to Kafka and Borges. An essential companion to the fiction.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering on spine. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. Wintz & Hyde NF10.a. ISBN: 0679426442. #11191.
Fine in fine dust jacket.