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Dick was an amazing talent. Troubled guy, but he gave us a lot.
How ‘bout a movie of PKD’s anti-abortion story, “The Pre-Persons”?
By the way, as long as we're talking about great SciFi stories (sometimes screwed up by Hollywood,) here's a link to Supertoys Last All Summer Long in pdf format. It's the short story Stephen Spielberg screwed up making A.I.
I’m not a huge SciFi fan, but I do appreciate a good story.
Help a Newbie out. I’d like to read some of his short fiction, a form I just love, no matter what the subject.
Is there a short story collection I should start with, and/or where should I start with his novels?
So long and thanks for all the fish, LOL!
The article does not mention Screamers, based on “Second Variety”. Pretty close to the original story, very bleak and hopeless, with no happy ending. One character actually mentions Perky Pat, from two Dick stories.
A Scanner Darkly was pretty good from a Dick point of view, the total paranoia was infectious.
Blade Runner was a loss. The original message in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was lost, gone, diluted.
Let’s pool resources and do a film on Three Stigmata!
Blade Runner is a fine film (one of only 5 titles in my permanent collection, I'm a real film snob) and I highly recommend it. Other films supposedly based on Phildick stories were only so-so at best.
Can't read just one or two phildick books and think you know about Dick. I suggest the entire canon in chronological order including the non-sci-fi Confessions of a Crap Artist.
Of course, if you don't want your mind to get all twisted around, then I recommend not reading any Dick at all.
As far as sci-fi movies go, I recommend Mad Max, it is a very tight and thrilling movie, not a single scene wasted.
I just saw the new DVD Star Trek not because it thought it would be good, I just wanted to see where the franchise was these days. The movie exceeded my not-very-high expectations and I am happy to recommend it to fans of Star Trek TOS. I especially liked McCoy's entrance, I hooted so loud I scared the animals.
Philip K. Dick ranks with Mark Twain as a great American humorist.
Only seen bits and pieces of the films based on his work and detected little to no humor. His gnostic, Germanic theology is absent as well.
In fact, I have detected little PKD in any of the movies.
Kipple drives out nonkipple.
Well, I’m a bit late to this thread, so I’ll just say that I really like Philip K. Dick’s books. I read most of them as they came out, and reread them over the years.
He is a crazy but brilliant writer. I strongly recommend trying the books (not for every taste, but brilliant).
I’ve only seen a few of the movies, and I think they are mostly way below the level of the books with the exception of Blade Runner.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is very different from the movie version, Blade Runner. Both are excellent, but different. For once, although Hollywood failed expectedly to really do the book, it did a brilliant movie instead.
I like all of Dick’s books, including the earlier California novels, which I presume are autobiographical. The one exception is the last few, which go over the line into pure craziness.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is where Dick STARTS to really go over the edge into madness (not that he wasn’t somewhat crazy all along), but it is in some ways his best book ever.
The next few are also good, but they edge into insanity and pointlessness at the end.