"Disruption Of The Power Process In Modern Society", item 64
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”
As quoted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) edited by Lawrence Sutin, p. x.
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