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PKD is the closest thing the U.S. have to a perennial icon of New Wave SF. Literary critics would rather forget that J.G. Ballard started out writing and editing for New Worlds and Michael Moorcock and M John Harrison are as unknown in the States now as they were in the 60s.

Harlan Ellison is the only other U.S. New Wave patriarch, save maybe Zelazny. Ellison has a bit of a psychotic complex about intellectual property, though.