The World According to Philip K. Dick is a 2015 scholarly essay collection published by Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Alexander Dunst of the University of Paderborn, Germany, and Stefan Schlensag of TU Dortmund University, Germany.
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As a multi-author academic collection from a major scholarly publisher, this volume represents the ongoing institutionalization of Dick studies within the academy. The editors' German institutional affiliations reflect the strong European tradition of Dick scholarship, as Dick's work has long been taken seriously by European critics and academics, often preceding American academic recognition. The collection likely covers themes central to Dick's corpus including the nature of reality, identity, technology, and simulation.