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7306770 No.7306770 [Reply] [Original]

In the alternate timeline where PKD survived and kept writing in the cyberpunk movement, what did he write?

>> No.7306774

An alternate history where Philip k dick died before writing in the cyberpunk movement

>> No.7306782

Dick didn't really conform to the conventions of genre fiction though

>> No.7306795

>>7306782
Genre nonconformity was a sort of genre in the 60s-70s

>> No.7306806

He wouldn't have written anything as 'cyberpunk' as William Gibson

probably a few more books about fat guys time travelling on drugs and then he woulda burned out

>> No.7306814

>>7306806
A lot of his earlier stories are pretty involved with earlier cybernetic concepts. I'm thinking of the ones with homeostatic newspapers.

>> No.7306861

>>7306782
It was a genre: New Wave sci fi

>> No.7306883

>>7306795
wacky dacky doo! i'm discussing literature on the internet!

>> No.7308350

>>7306774
probably

>> No.7309414

all the Dick you can eat!

vola file <dot> io / r / fy2QMc

get it fresh for the next two days!

>> No.7309422

>>7309414
also

http://www.ohio.edu/people/hartleyg/authors/dick/

http://www.ohio.edu/people/hartleyg/authors/

>> No.7309500

He'd INSTALL GENTOO

>> No.7309521

>>7306770
He would have been exhausted by his drug use and mental illness and written a bunch of wacko garbage that was totally incoherent.

>> No.7309620

he survived, he call himself zizek now.