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> Are there ANY prominent non-evil female characters in
> Dick's books? There's the woman with cancer in Valis,
> the teenage drug-dealer in the same book, and the
> personification of the Torah in the Divine Invasion.
> Other than that I'm drawing a blank. And the
> personification of the Torah was one-half of God, so
> I'm not sure if she/it counts.
Women in the later Dick are mostly icy and incomprehensible when not outright mad, like Pris Frauenzimmer or Lilo Topchev; still, an improvement over women's roles in his earlier books, big-tittied props in a California Man's World:
"...a waitress wearing the lace stocking and partial jacket-vest combination now popular: it left one breast, the right, exposed, and its nipple was elegantly capped by a Swiss ornament with many minned parts; the ornament, shaped like a large gold pencil eraser, played semi-classical music and lit up in a series of attractive shifting light patterns which focused on the floor ahead of her..."
Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net