The Simulacra is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel portrays a future totalitarian society apparently dominated by a matriarch, Nicole Thibodeaux. It revolves around the themes of reality and illusionary beliefs, as do many of Dick's works. Additionally, it touches on Nazi ideology.
The Simulacra came out in a blaze of publicity in 1964 I got hold of a copy early on and gave it my best shot .. I became bogged down early in the piece and left it at that, there was just too much "in the know" stuff that never really hit home with me.
Q @ Amazon says, "there are the classic PKD science fiction elements of "time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids and Neanderthal like mutants," conspiracies paranoia, oppressive government and a future setting, however it seems like he threw together all the leftover characters and plot devices from a dozen novels and patched them together into this."
Steven E. Courtney @ Amazon says, "characters are introduced and we follow them to a certain point and then they simply disappear. Much is made of the time travel device which is merely used as a simplistic plot gimmick, and why all the fuss over bringing back Herman Goering just to shoot him because he wasn't Hitler?" https://www.amazon.com/Simulacra-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547572506.
The Hitler connection did it for me .. if you wanted to get published thru that era the Jewish publishing houses insisted there be Jew Holocaust propaganda or you would be whistling into the wind. All to support their Holocaust narrative in the face of evidence AH was a Jew, and that Jews perped genocide upon the German ppl not the other way around, so plenty of trash titles turned up that is for sure.
I am sure we can extract more mileage from this thread :) in many ways The Simulacra signaled the demise of Science Fiction as a genre, the golden age of SF came in short stories that appeared in the "pulpies" from about the 1930's on, Amazing Stories and Astounding Science Fiction are two that come to mind.
Post 1964 the genre suffered decline with "Psi" stories leading the way, despite valiant rearguard actions from Kurt Vonnegut fr instance with The Sirens of Titan and material from a few other writers, space opera a la Frank Herbert's "Dune" series and Doc Smith's "Lensman" series came to dominate the medium.
Try as I might I was never able to come to terms with Michael Moorcock at any time, whereas when I gifted an Edgar Rice Burroughs "Barsoom" chronicle to a friend, she was so taken by it she finished with a truly prodigious library of ERB Mars titles .. each to his or her own I suppose.
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The Hitler connection did it for me .. if you wanted to get published thru that era the Jewish publishing houses insisted there be Jew Holocaust propaganda or you would be whistling into the wind. All to support their Holocaust narrative in the face of evidence AH was a Jew, and that Jews perped genocide upon the German ppl not the other way around, so plenty of trash titles turned up that is for sure.
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Black Destroyer, by A.E. van Vogt - https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article324.
Post 1964 the genre suffered decline with "Psi" stories leading the way, despite valiant rearguard actions from Kurt Vonnegut fr instance with The Sirens of Titan and material from a few other writers, space opera a la Frank Herbert's "Dune" series and Doc Smith's "Lensman" series came to dominate the medium.
Try as I might I was never able to come to terms with Michael Moorcock at any time, whereas when I gifted an Edgar Rice Burroughs "Barsoom" chronicle to a friend, she was so taken by it she finished with a truly prodigious library of ERB Mars titles .. each to his or her own I suppose.