Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

Dick, Philip K.
Krakauer, David C.

Paperback

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of Science

Publisher Price: $19.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 2, 2027

ISBN13: 9798987123126
Publisher: Isolarii
Published: Mar 2 2027
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
On the fragile nature of reality, the power of fiction, and the quest for authentic human experience in an increasingly mediated world.

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later is an essay written in 1978, though readers will be forgiven for taking Dick at his word and assuming it was in fact given as a lecture at Disneyland. Having circulated on the internet unofficially, it has achieved cult status: although Dick's output in his lifetime was prolific, this essay is a rare insight into his poetics and theories of fiction.

The text is at once a lecture on the aims of writing science fiction, an essay on Pre-Socratic philosophers, and a reflection on similarities between the author's life and the Book of Acts. Dick's distrust of mass media information systems and those who operated them circa 1978 is so prescient that it seems the author may have uploaded himself into one of the androids in his fiction, so as to continue observing the world.

Most aspects that define our modernity--AI, social media, increasingly sophisticated propaganda--can be heard in the voice of Philip K. Dick, exclaiming with both amusement and concern: I told you so. Lauded by the critic and theorist Fredric Jameson as the Shakespeare of science fiction, Dick now stands as the best-known science fiction writer of the 20th century.

Also from

Dick, Philip K.

View All

Also in

Philosophy

View All