Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[Dave Monroe]

Haven't been able to track down all the Darko Suvin
I'd like to find (inevitably namechecked in SF
studies), but perhaps referring to Kingsley Amis' SF
survey, New Maps of Hell (1960)?  And speaking of
alternate universe finds, what about that sequel to
The Man in the High Castle, narrated largely from the
Nazi point of view?  Some material at least in The
Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected
Literary and Philosophical Writings, ed. Lawrence
Sutin ...

--- Christian KUmpe <D.Bizarro at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Yep, 
> I´d go along with your list. Also I don´t take TP`s
> "Decade after Hiroshima"
> literally. To me, It looks like Dick*, Ballard and
> Herbert are some possible
> geniuses in the context of the "Is it
> OK...-article". Nevertheless the
> genius of the praised authors remains of course
> arguably. 

> If we want to label them, I think of "the New Maps
> Of Hell" phase in sci-fi
> that Darko Suvin talks about. Yet he cites the term
> from somewhere else (excuse
> me) .> > Then on to politics.  He writes:  "...
> Eisenhower
> 
> *Thinking of P.K.D.
> Pynchons whole narrator´s perspective in the article
> puts him close to
> Dick´s "Man in the High Castle" character. Certainly
> an attitude related to TP.
> (And maybe autodeconstructed by hidden jokes, yes.)
> 
> Read You
> 
> Christian
> 
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