DICK, Philip K.

£12,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Typescript outline of "Fawn, Look Back" with authorial manuscript corrections. Dick's original typescript plot outline of an unrealized novel, with his manuscript ink corrections, published in issue number 2 of Science Fiction Eye, August 1987, together with journalist Paul Williams's typescript introductory essay, with his manuscript ink corrections, published in the same issue. Dick's insightful reflections on "Fawn, Look Back" show how his personal life and watershed "3-74" visions are all intertwined in his writing.Science Fiction Eye was an up-and-coming magazine of criticism and review. Securing a piece of writing by Dick was a major early coup, and they they dedicated a whole section of issue number 2 to appraising his work. The section comprised the present outline for "Fawn, Look Back" and Williams's introductory article, alongside illustrations by Dan Steffan, an interview with Dick by Richard A. Lupoff, and a review by Ted White of Williams's book, Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick. Williams was a pioneering journalist of rock music criticism and the founder of Crawdaddy magazine. He was a close friend of Dick and the literary executor of his estate for several years after his death.Dick conceived "Fawn, Look Back" as a reflection of his own troubled interpersonal relationships and contrastingly successful career. The story outline describes the life of Dick's self-insert protagonist, who exists in a world where there are three hierarchical "Modes"

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