philip K dick
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Sister
It is as if a great house has fallen―sunk into the mire which seethes around the ancestral manor, amid an unrecognizable, Martian landscape. The narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” has no name, no…
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“It Will Prove Invincible”
In 1981, Philip K. Dick saw a television segment about the forthcoming film Blade Runner, based on his novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. He then wrote a fervent letter to the production company. Dick passed away five months after…
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Blade Runner Take Two
Blade Runner is making a comeback. It was twenty-nine years ago that Ridley Scott directed the awesome dystopian sci-fi film, based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Now he is making either a prequel…
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Philip K. Dick: “Ignore the bad patches, just keep reading”
Explore the many different ways of reading and understanding the writings of Philip K. Dick, particularly the unsettling yet enticing allure of his “unquotable prose”.
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Morning Coffee
Tiny Swedish lighthouses. A walk through JD Salinger’s New York. Philip K. Dick’s book covers. (via MeFi.) Behold the molecular Venus flytrap! Accidental contemporary art.
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A Rabid Fan of the Novel Revolutionary Road Compares It to the Film
It has come to my attention that you keep adapting my favorite novels [see Atonement, Revolutionary Road, et. al.], and turning them into mediocre movies. Cease and desist! Get your own ideas!
