Dick, Philip

Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesn t Fall Apart Two Days Later, in I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon... 

Many modem novelists, philosophers, madmen, and provocateurs deeply believe that time is not what we think it to be. Novelist Philip K. Dick, for example, suggested that time on Earth has stopped in the year 50 AD, and he gives concrete reasons for his theory in his breathtaking essay How to Build a Universe That Doesn t Fall Apart Two Days Later, in I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon. In short, he believes that our world today is not taking place in the 21st century, and we are deceived and live in a counterfeit reality lodged in a spacetime pocket in 50 AD. He writes ... 

MARK W. TIEDEMANN is the author of Mirage and Chimera, both in the Asimov s Robot Mystery series Compass Reach (part of the Secantis Sequence), for which he earned a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award and Remains. He has also contributed to the Smart Pop book The Anthology... 

Philip Nowlan and Dick Calkins, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century The Complete Newspaper Dailies. Volume One, 1929-1930 (Neshannock, PA Hermes Press, 2008). 

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