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I know it sounds like I'm asking y'all for help with my homework or whatever but I promise I'm not. I just re-read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick which has long been a favorite of mine, but I came away with some questions this time: What is the evidence that Deckard has...

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...

I'm trying to remember and locate an old SF short story. It's set in the future and describes an unending war between humanoid robots who are taking over the conflict from humans. The humanoids on one side are all identical. Some of the robots are tiny to infiltrate enemy bases. There might be a...

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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...

Hello, I am looking for the title of an older science fiction short story. It is set in a world where the Us is at odds with another country (possibly China). They are trying to ship some toys into the country but the Us is trying to determine if they are harmful. One of them is a war type game...

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?

Opinion please. OT: Many people have said there favorite Author is HP Lovecraft. Including Stephen King.

Hi Maybe C. Simak, guy goes in kind of ghost town, all is fake and persian gods Ahura Mazda vs Ahriman are towering ... Believe read it late 70's ... nearly 50 years ago ... :oops: thanks

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...

Hi guys, i've been searching for a short story (i think) for a very long time now and i just can't find it. So i'm really hoping, that, you guys could help. Here's what i def. remember about the plot: It's set in the future on another planet; The main characters are adults, but one adult has a...