![]() ![]() For this study, I borrow Umberto Rossi's term 'Ontological Uncertainty' to refer to the phenomena in Dick's fiction that disturbs reality in a number of ways. Often, Dick's characters must navigate what Fredric Jameson has termed a 'nightmarish uncertainty'. ![]() The power of these beings renders the reality of his characters strange, yet familiar, or familiarly strange. From the androids in 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', to the paranoia inducing Substance D in 'A Scanner Darkly', or the fake historical artefacts and kitsch encountered in 'The Man in the High Castle' and 'Confessions of a Crap Artist', readers of Dick often encounter entities that unsettle concepts thought previously to be stable. The worlds of his novels are often surreal, strange fabulous and frightening, often featuring ordinary people encountering something that disturbs their sense of reality, or selfhood. The subject of this paper emerged from a desire to contribute to a growing body of science fiction scholarship and studies of Philip K. ![]()
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