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.