[lbo-talk] Something genuinely usefull in robot stopping

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sun Apr 9 12:03:23 PDT 2006


John Adams wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2006, at 7:44 AM, John Adams wrote:
>
>> On Apr 9, 2006, at 7:33 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
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>>> Are there ANY prominent non-evil female characters in
>>> Dick's books?
>>
>>
>> What about the cop in _A Scanner Darkly_?
>
>
> Better examples are in _The Man in the High Castle_--I don't recall any
> bad women in that one, and Juliana in particular is quite heroic.
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Yeah, if you read the books in chronological order (High castle was early, Valis late), his representations of women just get worse and worse. Apologies to Carrol, but it's hard to resist linking this to his bitter and increasingly difficult marital relationships.

Miles



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