- The Days of Perky Pat
The Days of Perky Pat is a
science fiction short story byPhilip K. Dick , first published in1963 in Amazing magazine. Elements of the story would be incorporated into Dick's1965 novel , "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ".Plot
In this story, suvivors of a global thermonuclear war living in isolated enclaves in California spend their leisure time playing with the eponymous doll in an escapist role-playing game that recalls life before the apocalypse — a way of life that is being quickly forgotten. At the story's climax, a couple from one isolated outpost of humanity play a game against dwellers of another outpost (who play the game with a doll similar to Perky Pat dubbed "Connie Companion") in deadly earnest. The survivors' shared enthusiasm for the Perky Pat doll and her expensive accessories is a sort of mass delusion that prevents meaningful re-building of the shattered society.
Perky Pat in Popular Culture
David Cronenberg 's 1999 filmEXistenZ , which involves avirtual reality game that blurs reality and fantasy, visually refers to the Dick short story when its two stars,Jude Law andJennifer Jason Leigh , consume fast food from containers marked "Perky Pat's."In the movie Screamers Peter Weller's character refers to someone sarcastically as a real "Perky Pat".
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