Sources and Inspirations
- The basic setting of the story - a dictatorship of the future with a single leader who addresses the citizens on a two-way television screen - is similar to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- The rebels are explicitly compared to "college students of the United States during the Vietnam War" within the story.
- The idea that God is a predator who preys on other living things was also used in Dick's novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
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