From the niche of a "minor literature," as Deleuze and Guattari would put it, the work of Philip K. Dick has become increasingly relevant as new configurations of our unstable present unfold.¹ Paradigms of diffused control and security have been substantially integrated into the majority of social environments and become part of the collective experience for millions of inhabitants in the "more developed countries". The financial crash in 2008 and the economic policies enacted by the European Central Bank since then have also unmasked the extreme fallibility and ruthlessness of the current politico-economic system that had been thought of as neutral and reliable. The present crisis has led to the questioning of an economic rationality (pace Fukuyama) usually perceived as heading towards the "end of history" and the pacification of globalized society.² Philip K. Dick's significance as a thinker lies precisely in his ability to sense and decode the tendencies of his times, which he would then crystallize in his narratives, projecting them onto different possible futures through the peculiarity of science fiction's formal literary devices.³ Dick's early career — from the short stories submitted to sf and fantasy magazines at the beginning of the 1950s to the publication of his first masterpiece Time Out of Joint (1958) — is often overshadowed by the major novels of the 1960s and the religious turn that followed the visions he experienced in 1974.