AtD: Bilocations in popular culture

[Roman Kudryashov]

"Dick [was] many authors: a poor man's Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a
rich product of the changing counterculture" Village Voice

If you read any Philip K. Dick, he has a lot of similar themes, including
one in "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said", where one of the minor
characters takes a drug that affects everyone except for the user, basically
throwing everything into an altered state as envisioned by the user-- the
plot is that some famous tv personality becomes virtually a non-existant
person (as far as records and memory are concerned), as if he has stepped
into a parallel universe where no one knows him, but he is still in the same
place, just happening to lead another existence, and it is only after the
drug wears off on the girl that took it that people begin to recognize him.

Philip K. Dick continues themes like that (though not with drugs-- more on
perception of reality) in Valis, Exegenisis, and his essays in "Shifting
Realities of Philip K Dick.
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If I'm not mistaken, Robert Anton Wilson continued the "Universe Next Door"
theme all through his Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy.

Doesn't Alan Moore's Watchman have some implications of this with the Atomic
guy as well?

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>there other representations of the idea of bilocations in popular culture?
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>Is it perhaps by now even
>a mainstream idea in Science Fiction? An early example that could have
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>Wilson's "The Universe Next Door" [1979]. Anyone for more?
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