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In the following excerpt, Carrere says that Dick wondered what it was like to be psychotic and then described the condition with his novel Martian Time-Slip. This excerpt discusses how other characters in the book become like the one character Manfred, yet Dick allows the plumber to escape the confusion of illusion and reality through death.
Soon after finishing The Man in the High Castle, Dick wrote a novel called Martian Time-Slip, in which, with considerably more earnestness than Huxley had after his mescaline trip, he asked himself the question, What does it feel like to be psychotic?
The story, which begins with a suicide whose effects ripple outward and touch every character at some point in the course of the novel, turns around land speculation on Mars, Earth’s somewhat neglected colony, where labor union fiefdoms and United Nations concessions vie for control and influence. In an effort to get...
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