philip k dick

Yes, this probably one the craziest question ive ever asked and its poably more then a bit of a reach but , I figured itstill might be worth asking. :unsure::( Thoughts ?:(

Okay so I was stuffing around with ChatGpt and seeing what it would spit out if I asked it to critique my writing. Some of what it wrote seemed reasonable and some of it seemed to miss what I was trying to communicate. So I got the idea; what would happen if I put in a passage from writer I...

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Yeah yeah, I know some people will consider me a SJW for saying this, but the fetishistic way an underaged nude character is described is creepy, the talking bees is silly, and the ending of driving through a Gaia figure's chest is corny. Sure it was 1952, before he'd really honed his skills...

Do they have?

Imagine him alive and in the age of the Internet and continuing to write and where he would gone as a writer. What do you think might he have he have become in the age of the Internet? :)

What is the best Philip K. Dick adaptation? Mine's Total Recall. What's yours?

I have read a story by Dick entitled "Small Town" that is about a man who can manipulate events in his town by adjusting his small model of it. It seems that the newest Twilight Zone installment features an episode called "A Small Town" that has a very similar presence. I wouldn't have minded an...

A Scanner Darkly is set in a near future police-state California (actually the past now; written in 1977 it was set in 1994) where undercover narcotics agents are everywhere and even their bosses don’t know their identities (protected by ‘scramble suits’) and targets (anyone with the slightest...

How many PHILIP K. DICK Movies and tv shows are there?

Phil K. Dick is my favorite author, and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep is my favorite book. This novel, combined with his short story Second Variety, predicts exactly what robots will do to humanity once their intelligence surpasses ours. And yet here we are, building smarter and smarter...

Shoulder of Orion podcast has produced an original Blade Runner audio drama. From their website: "2020:Gethsemane follows the lives of three Nexus 8 Replicants in hiding as they are confronted with a choice: do they risk their lives for something bigger than them, or do they remain safe? Set...

Perky Pat Layouts are making a comfortable profit from their monopoly providing colonists on marginally inhabitable planets with an escape to an idealised ‘virtual’ earth-side reality (virtual in experience but drug induced dream world rather than cyberpunk-style). Then Palmer Eldritch returns...

In this thread, please rank your ten favorite Philip K Dick stories. Your favorite story should be numbered 1, while your less preferred stories should ascend down to the number 10. If you haven't read or like 10 of his stories, you don't have to fill out a complete list, but I will only include...

Best Philip K Dick Novel The Guardian ran an article on Dick’s Best Novels chosen by Nicola Barker, Michael Moorcock, and Adam Roberts on 27th August 2017 at Philip K Dick Best Novels. There's all the normal stuff you'd expect to see - Adam Roberts sensibly chose Do Androids Dream of Electric...

In case you hadn't noticed, there's a new series on Channel 4 of Philip K. Dick short story adaptations called "Electric Dreams". First episode airing on Sunday 17th (2017). Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams: Everything you need to know

What's the title of that story again? Thanks.

It is 1992, and some sections of humanity have developed psychic capabilities, while others have developed the ability to suppress the capabilities of others. When Glen Runciter, the boss of an anti-psychic company is apparently murdered by business rivals, time appears to start regressing, and...

Hi all, Was curious to read your thoughts on VALIS as a trilogy. Has anyone had the opportunity to read Tess Dick's The Owl in Darkness?

Skunk 'causes damage to vital nerve fibres' "Substance D" being, for those who don't know, the powerful psychoactive drug that the protagonist of "A Scanner Darkly" uses in his role as an undercover policeman that causes the two hemispheres of his brain to function independently. Are there no...