Articles tagged "philip k. dick"

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Future Imperfect by Jason Vest

by Mike Pursley

[18.Mar.09] :. Dickian, like Kafkaesque, is shorthand for events that share the mood of the author’s oeuvre. In Dick’s case: paranoia, fried existentialism, and way-down-the-rabbit-hole reality shifts.

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The Word of God by Thomas M. Disch

by Erik Hinton

[27.Jun.08] :. This reads as if Italo Calvino was somewhat slow and raised on MTV, but had tried to write If on a winter’s night a traveler …” , anyway.

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‘Blade Runner’ started Hollywood’s love affair with Philip K. Dick

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[29.Nov.07] :. Hollywood’s love affair with the science fiction of Philip K. Dick has spawned eight films from such distinguished talents as Steven Spielberg, John Woo, Paul Verhoeven and Richard Linklater,...

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Comics Review

A Scanner Darkly

by Jesse Hicks

[27.Jul.06] :. Hallucination is not a private matter; it is a a subjective reality, backed with the force of unyielding belief, and it can become consensus reality.

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Dr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick

by Bill Gibron

[1.Dec.05] :. By using the previous genocide of the native residents of North America as a futuristic rallying cry for his characters, Dick delivers an interesting epic without a great deal of technical wizardry or speculative mumbo jumbo.

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