[Info-vax] VSI Software and Stark Gaming

[Scott Dorsey]

 <already5chosen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 5:23:27 AM UTC+3, George Cornelius wrote:
>> 
>> PKD is quite interesting.  He was paid next to nothing to write the
>> marvellously titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"  Turns
>> out that almost all of what he wrote was considered pulp fiction
>> and he was paid accordingly.
>
>Even "The Man in the High Castle" ?
>It seems to me, after reading few pages everybody will recognize that it's very good literature.

It is excellent literature, and the use of the untrustworthy narrator in
the way Dick employs it was innovative and adventurous.  But while Asimov
and Clarke sold stories to Playboy and the New Yorker, many SF writers who
were just as fine, like PKD or Ted Sturgeon, were stuck in the ghetto of
Astounding and F&SF where rates were not exactly enough to be considered
a living wage.

I consider this to be the literary tragedy of our age.  Others may disagree.
--scott

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