A Visionary Among the Charlatans (Stanislaw Lem on Philip K. Dick)


	A Visionary Among the Charlatans (Stanislaw Lem on Philip K. Dick)

Djiezes

6-28-2008 11:01 AM

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scifi, dick, lem, philip k dick, stanislaw lem, literature, sf, history, usa, journal

Djiezes says:

Lem about the state of American science fiction circa 1975 with an extended appreciation of Dick

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<H4 align="center"># 5 = Volume 2, Part 1 = March 1975</H4></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm"><P><FONT size="2" color="#000000"><STRONG>ABSTRACT</STRONG></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm">Dick has as a rule taken over a rubble of
building materials from the run-of-the-mill American professionals of SF, frequently
adding a true gleam of originality to worn-out concepts, and erecting with such materials
constructions truly his own.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm">If Dick’s writings are neither of uniform
quality nor fully realized, still it is only by brute force that they can be jammed into
that pulp of materials, destitute of intellectual value and original structure, which
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not won him many admirers outside the ghetto walls, since outsiders are repelled by the
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