Philip K. Dick quotes on science-fiction

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups.. So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

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Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

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A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

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