Thread: Philip K. Dick

Well. It seems like it finally bit me. Last night. Out of the blue I googled "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" read it, and immediately rewatched Total Recall. I've been following the progress of the 'remake' and I guess that's what finally did it for me.

I have seen Blade Runner numerous times, the majority of that time was in 2008. I saw it for the first time back in 2006 and I think I wasn't ready for that film at the time being because I just thought it was boring and looked cool.

Then I rewatched it again, and sometime later - it just hit me and I realized how deep the film was.



I now have the entire Philip K. Dick bibliography in epubs and am reading the short stories before I get into his novels.

Discuss.

Is there nobody who has read or even heard of PKD?

I suggest you retitle you'r thread "Phillip K Dick, a genious author of his time"

But of course there are people who know and have read PKD.

The first one i read is the french translation "Le Maître du Haut-Château" and i thinks that's the time when I realized I loved uchronia in Stories. This is what also made watch Sliders : The parallel Worlds. There's an episode where URSS controlled USA in the present. I recently thought of the book while watching an episode of the last (3th) season of the British series "Misfits" where Nazi's ruled the present world and Invaded GB. Too bad Sliders had been shutdown...

I worked at a movie theater back in 1982 and watched Blade Runner a million times. What's annoying is that his books are exactly the same as written back then, it's only NOW that he's considered a genius. The books didn't change, society's opinion did. Which brings up my personal maxim: There's no genius, only marketing. Want another example? Vincent van Gogh.

he's on my read list but haven't gotten there yet. i do like heinlein. asimov, not so much but its been a long time since i read his stuff.

The Adjustment Bureau is one of the films made on his work. A stunning imagination is what the man had !!

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And oh, also Total Recall and Minority Report. Insane, insane stuff !

I was fixated on PKD quite a while back and was fascinated as much by his personal life as of his writings (definitely check out his non-fiction work and at least a bio). Poor and underpaid, PKD was an original California "tin foil hat" wearing motherfucker who was paranoid as hell and it certainly came through in his writings. Perhaps for the right reasons though... (see Valis)

At this point in my education I believe he might have been "whispered to" as I believe are quite a few sci-fi writers, he just went more cukoo than others. What I'm talking about is "predictive programming" (see Alan Watt's explanation on culture creation through fiction). The original predictive programmer was of course, HG Wells, a known illuminant eugenicist douche (along with GB Shaw, Aldous Huxley etc.).

Have fun down that rabbit hole....

Ummm well seems like my last post got deleted...

But anyways just wanted to say that minority report was really an amazing movie. One of my favorite of all times. If I ever start picking up reading for pleasure (Maybe after I finish school?) then I will most definitely look into this guy as futuristic/fantasy is right down my ally.

Thanks for bringing this up since I never even knew anything about him.