Mack Hassler set with an interesting task this week after the unfortunate death of David Foster Wallace. He asked me to consider two questions: 1) Is PKD like Wallace in respect to the concept of “transgressive parody,” which Patrick Novotny defines in his chapter to Hassler and Wilcox’s Political Science Fiction (1997) titled, “No Future! Cyberpunk, Industrial Music, …
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