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| 1. Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:09 AM |
| giospurs |
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After reading the 5 Books You Couldn't Live Without thread it seems that there are a few people on here that like PKD. What's your favourite Dick book? I recently read the VALIS trilogy and Flow My Tears. They were brilliant (although I wasn' too keen on The Divine Invasion) but A Scanner Darkly still probably edges it for me. I've just bought The Man In The High Castle; I can't wait to read it but every time I pick up a book now I feel like I should be rereading 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale for my upcoming English coursework.
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| 2. Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:16 PM |
| cheeseeater |
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I haven't read any books by P K. Dick but a couple of weeks ago i saw the movie "a scanner darkly", it was made with some kinda special animation teqhnique i've never seen before. A cool movie. I am interested in transhuman science fiction themes like technological singularity and mind uploading etc. Does anyone know of a Phillip K. Dicks book which specifically take up themes like this?
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| 3. Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:11 AM |
| giospurs |
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| QUOTE:I haven't read any books by P K. Dick but a couple of weeks ago i saw the movie "a scanner darkly", it was made with some kinda special animation teqhnique i've never seen before. A cool movie. I am interested in transhuman science fiction themes like technological singularity and mind uploading etc. Does anyone know of a Phillip K. Dicks book which specifically take up themes like this? |
I suppose Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has minduploading, but what do you mean by technological singularity?
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| 4. Monday, November 30, 2009 11:05 AM |
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I also recommend The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and UBIK. Dr. Bloodmoney and Eye in the Sky are also good and perhaps a bit more accesible. Apparently a film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth, which deals with many of the thematic elements from VALIS in more strightforward narrative, is nearly completed. http://totaldickhead.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-first-look-at-radio-free-albemuth.html
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| 5. Monday, November 30, 2009 4:05 PM |
| giospurs |
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I'm still saving The Three Stigmata. It's the last Dick 'classic' I've got left to read, and I don't want to have read them all! I'm missing PKD at the moment. Being at Uni, I don't have time to read anything other than course material, so I've had to content myself with a Dick short story every few weeks. I might read Dr. Bloodmoney over Christmas though. I haven't read it before so I'm looking forward to it.
Total Dick-Head is a good blog. Shame he doesn't update it more often, but he's got my Uni problem (but a lot worse, his being a lecturer)
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| 6. Monday, November 30, 2009 5:06 PM |
| Booth |
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I read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch about two years ago. I liked it a lot.
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| 7. Monday, January 4, 2010 6:23 AM |
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Phil...is my fav author and probably is one of the most important authors of the last 100 years...at least in my messed up mind he is.
He literally killed himself writing these books and essays...am currently reading a book of him in interview just before he died circa 1982....called What If Our World Is Their Heaven? A Scanner Darkly Valis Flow My Tears... The Transmigration... Do Androids... are among some of my favs.
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| 8. Sunday, March 13, 2011 3:00 PM |
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Strangely, I had not read any of Dick's books until last summer. Strangely, because there have always been so many devoted fans of fantasy & SF literature around me... so somehow I took up reading it, too, but not Dick. And finally, last holidays, I read Man From The High Castle. Greeaaat book! A five-star without a doubt. It's great from start to finish, with all the analysis of the future society and imagining what world could like had the history turned otherwise. But an absolutely amazing moment of the book was when one of the main characters has a vision of... I don't know? our world, it seems. Time twists completely in this moment and we lose control over what is reality and what is fiction.
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| 9. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:25 PM |
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A BBC adaptation of TMITHC is reportedly in the works: http://www.slashfilm.com/ridley-scott-producing-bbc-adaptation-of-philip-k-dicks-the-man-in-the-high-castle/
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| 10. Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6:15 AM |
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I'm looking forward to that BBC adaptation of TMITHC. That was the only book of Dick's I'd read until I recently purchased the three volume Library of America collection. I never got around to reading Dick when I regularly purchased science fiction books while in high school.
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