Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick by Gabriel Mckee


Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick
Title : Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick
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ISBN : 0761826734
ISBN-10 : 9780761826736
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 96
Publication : First published December 30, 2003

From his earliest stories, Philip K. Dick's science fiction had strong religious and philosophical themes. In Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter, Gabriel McKee gives an overview of Dick's religious experiences and his attempts at communicating them in published works, drawing on Dick's fiction as well as his private journals and personal correspondence.

Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick Reviews

  • Mike

    A discussion of Phillip K. Dick's writing and mystical experiences through a Christian theological lens. I think Mckee has a valid point that a Christian paradigm served as a foundation or background to Dick's thought. However, Mckee also has a tendency to shoehorn Dick's thought into a Christian framework whether it fits or not. He consistently downplays the ways that Dick transcended standard doctrine and dogma. Dick believed in a God, but I'm not sure it was the Christian God. He believed in redeemer/Messiah figures, but he believed that Christ was only one manifestation of that archetype. Did he believe Christ was the son of God? I doubt it. Mckee seems to very much want to make PKD's theology Christian, to the point that he disregards the evidence to the contrary.

  • Brooks


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  • Bostian

    Looking for my current read of Eye in the Sky but found this interesting among the long list of books by or about PKD.

  • Leslie

    Interesting, though a little mind-boggling. Luckily it's short, because I will probably need to read it at least once more, along with some more of Dick's work.