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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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That’s a better way to think of PKD and most social science fiction. Space as a convenient allegory for talking about eart. Foundation saga was basically fall of Rome with 1950s Cold War bureaucracy thrown in. The robot stories were really about bureaucracies, not robots.
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Even the Antarctica story is not over. It’s just too expensive to go live there *now* but costs can change. I’m she’s in 4000 BC the idea of cities far from major rivers seemed impossible the way Antarctic or undersea colonies seem impossible today.