Table of Contents

Abstract

1.Introduction

2.Dickian Strategies
Introduction
Supra-Real and Irrational Forms of Expansive Reality
Profusion of Reality
After the Profusion of Reality
Labor and the Dickian Protagonist
Un-Becoming, Anti-Epiphany, Reversibility
Connectivity, Karma, Empathy

3.Martian Time-Slip and the Loss of the Social
Introduction
Integration and Disintegration
The Appearance of the Android
The Dead and the Living
Murder and Salvation

4.The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and the Supra-Real World
Introduction
The Morality of Restrictive Reality
Perky Pat and the Supra-Real Experience
Chew-Z and the Fall of Oedipus
Barney Mayerson and the Hint of Recoverable Humanity

5.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Unbearable Machine
Introduction
Unbearable Life and its Simulation
Empathy
Goats, Sex, and Death
Endgame

6.Conclusion

Works Cited

Curriculum Vitae