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    I'm a big fan of the short stories by Philip K. Dick. Some of them are really short, like a paragraph and usually a piss take on other sci-fi trends.
    I am going to have to track down some of his short stories, I never knew he wrote any. Such an amazing writer, such a sad life.
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    I am going to have to track down some of his short stories, I never knew he wrote any. Such an amazing writer, such a sad life.
    There's several collections. I have two, I think. One called We Can Remember it for You Wholesale, which I think is an early collection and Minority Report which is a later collection.
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    Some of his stuff is exceptionally good and amazing, but a lot of it, to me, seems overrated.
    "The exploited are not carriers of any positive project, be it even the classless society (which all too closely resembles the productive set up). Capital is their only community. They can only escape by destroying everything that makes them exploited...Capitalism has not created the conditions of its overcoming in communism-the famous bourgeoisie forging the arms of its own extinction-but of a world of horrors." -At Daggers Drawn

    "Our strategy is therefore the following: to establish and maintain a series of centers of desertion, or poles of secession, of rallying points. For runaways. For those who leave. A series of places where we can escape from the influence of a civilization that is headed for the abyss." -Tiqqun, Call
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    There's several collections...
    Dick's collected short fiction has been published in five volumes, each with a different title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Col...Philip_K._Dick

    At least half of them are terrific, and the rest are very good.

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