Philip K Dick,Pohl And Kornbluth The Men Who Saw The Future.

Topics covered in Philip K Dicks books include parallel universes such as the Axis controlled America in Man In the High Castle but also the Neanderthal earth of Cantata 140,Schizophrenia and mental illness, artificial life forms,global heating in The Three Stigmata of Palmer Edrich,everyday domestic appliances such as doors and taxis that talk to you, artificial realities produced by drugs which are controlled by the supplier of the drugs, cryonic suspension of the dead with whom it is possible to have a conversation,The Penfield  Mood organ on which you dial up your moods for the day, a device which produces animated film versions of novels where you decide the animation style ie Moby Dick animated by,Dali or Picasso.A key trope is always the impossibility  of defining what is actually real or not in such a world.A child for example can watch real footage of an elephant and CGI footage of a dinosaur probably not understanding that one is real and the other not.Philip K Dicks world is now our world, we actually live in Philip K Dicks universe ,perpetually asking ourselves the question is this for real?