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Kipple is, according to Philip K Dick, the accumulation of unwanted small objects.
It always gets more and more.
It grows at a frightening speed.
You start one of his books reading about one idea a great idea and then it proliferates.
Other ideas begin to appear until you are eventually immersed in the worlds he creates.
For instance (to stick withDo Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?)
Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter of androids, and thats interesting enough.
Dick never struck me as a writer who cared too much about explaining science.
This story doesnt waste any time on how you might incorporate a brain into a spaceship.
Conger was once an interplanetary hunter, tracking down and killing animals illegally on many worlds.
Now hes a prisoner, back on Earth.
Its an arresting concept that doesnt shy away from big theological questions.
Tony is a young boy being raised on the sun of Betelgeuse.
This is a story that has only increased in relevance over the years.
All three of these stories wrestle with the same thing.
Why do we commit violent acts?
What would it take to make us seek alternative solutions to problems, or renounce violence altogether?
They may have accumulated like kipple, but not one of them was useless.
