Jason P. Vest is assistant professor in the University of Guam's Division of English & Applied Linguistics. He is the author of Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies (2007).
The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick is an interesting and
well-researched project with a good deal of deft close reading and
thoughtful comparison. ... the detailed analyses themselves clearly
demonstrate some serious thinking and reading. ... Consequently, I
think that the volume's real value lies not in the overall premise,
but precisely in the extended analyses of Dick's resonances with
extra sf acceptance and recognition. From this perspective, the
study may realistically appeal not only to sf scholars, but also to
researchers of postmodernism as well as Kafkans, Borgesians, and
Calvinoists. As such, is a much-needed bridge-builder not between
two worlds so much as territories, one of which has had a
particular tendency to treat the other with condescension.
*Science Fiction Studies*
Admirable and worthwhile....The book is useful for Dick scholars
and literary scholars alike because Vest offers compelling readings
of Dick’s work and provokes interesting ways to think about Dick’s
corpus.
*The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts*
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