American writer (1928-1982) known for his works of science fiction, including The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, and A Scanner Darkly; acclaimed film adaptations of his works include Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report. ANS signed “Phil,” penned at the top of an off-white 8.5 x 11 sheet bearing a typed summary of Dick's thoughts on how religion fits into his various works, postmarked September 1978. Brief note to science fiction author Patricia Warrick, in full: "Pat—here is my most recent distillate of what I believe I say theologically in my work. It is very gnostic!" A portion of the typed summary reads: "Our minds are occluded without our realizing it (Scanner). This interferes with our memories of our identities and with our perception of reality (Scanner)…The reality which, due to the occlusion, we cannot see is a prison world (Tears). Therefore we do not know that we are in a prison, that we are prisoners (combination of Scanner and Tears)…There is not one world, but plural worlds (Eye). World is either fake (Stigmata) or abounds with fakes (Man in the High Castle, Penultimate Truth). In some way a great international weapons community is involved (Zap Gun). Some of us are human and some of us are reflex machines (Do Androids Dream, 'Second Variety')." In fine condition.
Includes an unsigned typed letter from Dick to Warrick, postmarked October 7, 1978, which reads: "Here is the essence of what I have learned over 4 and a half years, based on my March 1974 anamnesis experience. I want someone to have this abstract and you're the best person I can think of. The transducer in me told me not to talk about it, so be careful. The source of the transducer is in an alternate universe which the Protestant Cause was crushed and the Catholic powers settled the New World." The referenced abstract is featured below. Accompanied by the original mailing envelopes. After publishing essays focused on the relationship between Homo sapiens and its cybernetic offspring, Warrick began to concentrate on the work of Philip K Dick. She edited a collection of his work, Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick, and then examined his whole career in Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick, quite possibly the most thorough study of his entire oeuvre yet published.
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