Philip K. Dick in Orange County

why it is okay to see him in his writing—he is there. As he states in his author’s note, “Here in this novel there is Nemesis: not fate, because any one of us could have chosen to stop playing in the street, but, as I narrate from the deepest part of my life and heart, a dreadful Nemesis for those who kept on playing. I myself, I am not a character in this novel; I am the novel.”