Don't Eavesdrop On My Lunch Pod, Part 11

Me: I don't think Phillip Dick was all that as a writer. For me, what he had that set him apart was a set of really original ideas. Most sci-fi is a retread of the same seven plots, but he had serious originality.

Guy 2: You've got to read The Man in the High Castle. It's brilliant. It starts off as a pretty standard alternate history plot, Japan won WWII, blah blah blah, and then it goes forty degrees off to the side. It's a fascinating depiction of the melding of the two cultures, and -

Guy 3: Hentai arrived on our shores forty years earlier than it did in this timeline. Las Vegas is overrun with tentacles.