Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Joan D. Vinge wrote about a demarchist society in her enjoyable pacey novel The Outcasts of Heaven Belt.
Alastair Reynolds • Galactic North
Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.
William Gibson • Neuromancer
shapes which might once have been human remained—a collapsed
Frank Herbert • God Emperor of Dune
So, during his final days as a physical entity on Earth, PKD’s bodily processes were being maintained solely by technology. He was being controlled by a machine. The author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? would have enjoyed the irony in that.