I am a big fan of the author of Philip K Dick, so I picked
up a copy of "Selected literary and philosophical writings"
in a UK bookshop sometime ago. The book was a collections of essays,
book reviews, and other nonfiction writings. Dick was a novelist,
so his most important work is contained in his stories. It was,
however, interesting to read his essays. He was always very interested
in philosophy as well as all forms od science fiction.
He had a plot idea for the TV series of "mission impossible", that made me think he would have been a great script writer for the prisoner TV series. He didn't make much money until near the end of his life -- which was a shame.
In 1974 Dick had some kind of religous vision. After that his writing got even weirder and many people thought that he had gone insane. Reading his later essays, I did think that I wanted to see the work of the old Dick. Of course in 1971, when he got burgled, he made up a list of suspects that included the FBI and himself, so sanity was never one of his strong points.
I see that his later journal of crazy writings (The Exegesis) is going to be published next year. But will it help me tame this reality.