A review by gengelcox
What If Our World is Their Heaven by Doris Elaine Sauter, Gwen Lee

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

 This unedited series of interviews with Dick are not for the casual fan. In fact, as implied in Tim Powers’ introduction, without a broader knowledge of Dick and his mental states over the years, you may come away from this thinking this man was clearly insane or, at the very least, delusional. And, as Powers makes clear, Dick wasn’t above thinking the same about himself. What differs Dick from someone who needed to be institutionalized, however, is exactly that he questioned this himself. He had an experience that he struggled to understand—possibly religious, possibly alien, possibly a latent drug hallucination. Whatever it was, it profoundly affected him and changed his writing in the last ten years of his life. These interviews give the reader an insight into how he thought about both the experience, his new writing, and what he thought about the movie Blade Runner based on his book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Because they are unedited, you get a flavor of Dick’s natural voice, his inflections and quick turn of thoughts.