"If there is anyone who would not understand Philip K. Dick's inclusion in the Library of America--those uniform editions of what the Library calls the 'best and most significant' American literature--it would be Dick himself. It isn't that he didn't think he deserved to be taken seriously. The honor simply would not fit with the way he saw the world: in his novels, the future is always a sorrier version of the present, a copy of a copy of a copy. But there he stands, alongside Faulkner, Melville, Wharton, Twain and all the other Mount Rushmore figures of American literature." (Newsweek) This profile of Dick, whose "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is "one of...four novels included in the Library of America volume," considers reasons his writing deserves to be canonized. His influence on "artists ranging from the novelist Jonathan Lethem...to the Wachowski brothers" is noted.