Friday, June 3 2011
Days Till Retirement: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #23
There's a cognitive dissonance between Parker's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Ridley Scott's BladeRunner, because Parker's adaptation is a direct adaptation of each word in Dick's original text.
Monday, December 7 2009
Philip K. Dick’s Defense of Video Games
Philip K. Dick’s fiction is a defense of the validity of video games because despite the fact that they are not real, his stories argue that there is still something valid in the artificial.
Wednesday, March 18 2009
Future Imperfect by Jason Vest
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.
Friday, June 27 2008
The Word of God by Thomas M. Disch
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.
Thursday, July 27 2006
A Scanner Darkly
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.
Thursday, December 1 2005
Dr. Futurity by Philip K. Dick
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.
