Subscribe RSSAfter a lifetime’s usefulness of literature that explored the future, the farthest regions of space and the afterlife, a posthumous work by Philip K. Dick will take readers to a odd alien terrain: the inside of the author’s mind.
Mr. Dick, who died in 1982, was best known for existential field-fiction novels like “The Man in the High Castle,” “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” and “Do Androids Speculation of Electric Sheep?” He also spent years of his life wrestling with what he considered religious visions that he began experiencing in the 1970s. He recorded his reactions to and attempts at deciphering these inner visions in a work he called the “Exegesis,” reputed to be 8,000 pages - or longer.
Though few have be familiar with the work and fewer still have fully understood it, the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt plans to release “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick” in two consolidated volumes edited by Jonathan Lethem and Pamela Jackson, a Philip K. Dick pedagogue, with the first to be released next year.
