Though the terms “acid rain” and “greenhouse effect” were in the air during my childhood, the first inkling I had of what all this might mean came not from the news but from science fiction.
I believe The Three Stigmata was the first PKD novel I ever read. Someone else might reference it in a post on post-humanism and post-humanist billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. It's Musk who's got a hard-on for the colonization of Mars, which is where PKD's characters spend their days transubstantiating with Perky Pat and her boyfriend. In the novel, it's posited that Palmer Eldritch is a surrogate for beings from, I think, Proxima Centauri, and it seems fairly plausible that Musk is a surrogate for a being from the Russian Federation.
I believe The Three Stigmata was the first PKD novel I ever read. Someone else might reference it in a post on post-humanism and post-humanist billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. It's Musk who's got a hard-on for the colonization of Mars, which is where PKD's characters spend their days transubstantiating with Perky Pat and her boyfriend. In the novel, it's posited that Palmer Eldritch is a surrogate for beings from, I think, Proxima Centauri, and it seems fairly plausible that Musk is a surrogate for a being from the Russian Federation.
Hi, Peter. Well, his rocket would explode on the launchpad. Not an intelligent person.
Yeah, but an army of cognitively challenged youngsters would Tweet that he MEANT it to explode.
Exploding on the launchpad, the way we live now.