2022-01-02
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In 1974 [Philip Dick] told the FBI that the Polish author Stanislaw Lem was, in fact, the creation of a team of Soviet writers whose job was to spread anti-American propaganda, presumably via abstruse science fiction. The FBI didn’t respond to Dick’s claim, but it’s worth noting that, aside from being a real person, Lem was a devoted fan of his accuser. Six months later, unaware of Dick’s allegation, Lem wrote an essay dismissing all American science fiction authors but one: Dick alone was “a visionary among the charlatans”.