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Re:Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) by elbasti on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:07PM (#27330275)
One of my favourite anecdotes about Lem+Dick is that while Lem held PKD in high regard, PKD thought Lem didn't exist.[0].

He was convinced, in paranoid-Dickian-realityisweird fashion that Lem was actually a committee of people, and a Soviet hoax, not an individual.

0: https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is...

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Re:Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975) by robocat on Sunday May 30, 2021 @04:19AM (#27331567)
At the bottom of that article: “[Dick wrote that he was] approached in 1972 by a representative of a neo-Nazi organisation who pressured Dick into placing coded messages involving ‘politics, illegal weapons, etc’ into his future novels. He linked this organisation to a series of robberies which happened at his home in California”. Wow.
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