WARRICK, Patricia S(cott)

(1925-)

   US academic. Most of PSW's work has concentrated upon the themes explicated in the book version of her PhD thesis, The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction (1980), supplemented by Machines ThatThink: The Best Science Fiction Stories about Robots \& Computers (anth 1984) with Isaac ASIMOV and Martin H. GREENBERG. In essays published from the mid-1970s, and in Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology (anth 1978) with Greenberg and Joseph D. OLANDER, she focused on the relationship between Homo sapiens and its CYBERNETIC offspring, a focus which led naturally to a concentration on the work of Philip K. DICK. After editing (with Greenberg) a collection of his work, Robots, Androids, andMechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (coll 1984), she examined his whole career in Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick (1987), the most thorough study of his entire oeuvre yet published.

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   Other works: Martin H. GREENBERG for other team anthology productions with PSW under his general editorship.

   See also: ANTHROPOLOGY; COMPUTERS; SOCIOLOGY.