Omega Redux

Jonathan Lethem revisits an obscure comic classic

May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

The Rabbit loved superheroes as a kid but seldom identified with them. It took growing up to do that. I was well into my 20s before I realized that every mild-mannered male had a secret identity, if not a colorful leotard with or without the requisite “S.”

I was somewhere in…

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Time Pieces

Days of future past in the science fiction of Philip K. Dick

November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

…other psychological states figure in, notably schizophrenia. Dick was a heavy abuser of amphetamines and as he progressed into the ‘70s, questions of sanity dominated his work.

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Back To the Future

The precognizant and paranoid fiction of Philip K. Dick.

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

We have seen the future, thanks to science fiction author Philip K. Dick, and it looks like the present… even when it’s set in the past. No, we don’t fly around it rocket-powered hovercraft, there are no colonies on the moon let alone Mars and we don’t carry around laser…

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