A little bit of Dick
When Naomi and I travel to the SF Museum next month to present at the 26th Eaton Conference, the SF Hall of Fame is going to induct Philip K Dick, so why shouldn???t we beat them to the punch with our own entry into the SF blog of fame.
Author of such fantastic stories as ???Man in the High Castle???, ‘Minority Report’ and ‘Total Recall’ he is not only one of SF???s most adapted authors but also one of its most wacky characters. Due to massive pharmacological experimentation (or being married four times) his grip on reality was sometimes a bit ???flexible??? this meant that later in life he thought the CIA were reading his brainwaves through the metal fillings in his teeth,(mind you I feel the same way about most supermarket loyalty cards) ?? still he was an innovative and author. Go and read him now ?? comply.
Mark Brake
April 14, 2005
No complaints here.
I recently re-read, and enthusiastically insist that all bloggers
look up, the anti-fascist alternative history of
“Man in the High Castle”:http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_mancastle.html , the mysteries of being, time and
extraterrestrial real estate of “Martian Time Slip”:http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_martiantimeslip.html , the
Satanic takeover artists and corporate psychics of
“The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”:http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_stigmata.html , the claustrophobic betrayal of the omniscient police state of “Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said”:http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_flowmytears.html ,
and a tale of a megalomaniac physicist in the post-nuclear-
holocaust masterpiece of “Dr Bloodmoney”:http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_bloodmoney.html
And if that’s not enough to encourage those of you unfamiliar with Dick’s mental landscapes, the marvellous “Truman Show”:http://www.transparencynow.com/truman.htm was very heavily based on the paranoic first half of “Time Out of Joint”:http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_timeoutofjoint.html Dick’s ‘classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is’.
Perhaps the best remake of a Dick book since “Blade Runner”:http://www.blade-runner.it/ is about to hit our cinemas this summer. Draw blood on “A Scanner Darkly”:http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/a_scanner_darkly.html . . .
Comply.
Go; now!