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I finally understood what PKD was all about when I read his early novel CONFESSIONS OF A CRAP ARTIST which was his not very good attempt to write realist fiction, set in a tedious suburban Marin County in the 1950s
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So I guess my point is you can draw no useful conclusions about the future of space exploration from these kinds of works, since they really just use space lazily to talk about unrelated things.
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The Foundation series is pure modernization theory -- it is a literal narrative about mandarins of the future, that is, social scientists who control the direction of history through their technocratic competences.
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