It's time for a throwback thread, going back to Twitter in June of 2018.
"Philip K Dick's sequel to The Man in the High Castle was universally panned when published posthumously and against the late author's wishes."
"Philip K Dick's sequel to The Man in the High Castle was universally panned when published posthumously and against the late author's wishes."
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"By the year 2018“, the novel began, “tensions were running high between the United States and its neighbors to the North and South." 3/
"The federal government was in a shambles, with every major agency headed by a man dedicated to undermining its mission and purpose. 5/
Dick's incomplete final novel went on to describe the path by which a failed businessman, grifter, and television host ascended to the 7/
In this fictional American, diplomacy was dead; the president dictated government policy 140 characters at a time in poorly spelled edicts... 9/
In one particularly chilling subplot, a paramilitary organization with extensive extrajudicial powers prepared immanent mass deportations, 11/
beneath stenciled murals of the insane president, embellished with nonsensical quotations from his ghostwritten bestseller on the art of grift. 13/
I wonder why he didn't want it published, and if it was right to ignore what he wanted. Maaaaaaaybe it was worth the prediction ...
You know, the kind of thing that Bladerunner would have driven.
Wait until you hear about this dude Cervantes.
Disturbingly accurate.
I can't find any published in 1999, nor any reference to an official sequel (he had ideas, but they turned into other stories like Radio Free Albemuth ('85) and The Ganymede Takeover ('67)).
Some ideas were posted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1996).
And in true faith with Philip Dick, I’m not sure it matters.
Eisenhower