Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick helps you imagine the possibilities of a battery-powered comic book in a story from the mid-Sixties. Thanks, Phil. (SF in the News)

A paper memo or short letter that reads itself and can even argue with or exhort its reader. From the Ace story The Simulacra (new Technovelgy item)

video was based on the Voight-Kampff Empathy Test from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick. The machine is designed to ... vimeo.com

Animatic with 2D hand drawn animation Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep By Philip K Dick This film is a university project ... strimoo.com

 Canada This stands in strong contrast to the "gritty future" or so-called "air-conditioned nightmare" presented in such works as: Ridley Scott's Alien and Blade Runner (a brilliant rendering of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...

 MN Dick — whose novels have been made into familiar films such as "Blade Runner" and "Total Recall" — liked to take reality, give it a mordant, futuristic twist and set it off and running. Victoria Stewart's "The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick" does ...

 NY By Thomas S. Hibbs The great science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, whose books were the basis for Blade Runner and Minority Report, wrote: Within the universe there exist fierce cold things [machines]. Their behavior frightens me, especially when it ...

 UK Philip K. Dick's work has inspired some of the most interesting sci-fi films ever made: Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly. And now another of his books is headed to the screen: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said has been ...

By Robert Falconer | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Philip K. Dick, the noted sci-fi author who gave us such classic fiction as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (aka Blade Runner), is about to have another of his works adapted to the silver screen. ...

If they can do that with Terminator, just imagine what they can do with Philip K. Dick - whose stories have been the inspiration for such sci-fi classics as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly. If anyone is interested, ...

 FL Studios, in partnership with Electric Shepherd Productions, will be adapting best-selling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” into comic book form this summer, and Richard Starkings' Comicraft has ...

 UK - David Bentley I have been a huge fan of Philip K. Dick for years. I subscribed to the PKD Newsletter when I was in high school and have early editions of all his works. Laura and Isa said: "We are thrilled that Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is being adapted ...

 AZ Which, to a Sci-Fi geek such as myself, appears to be a wink to the film "Total Recall" (which is based on a Philip K. Dick story) where people are programmed with memories that can't be distinguised from reality, and ultimately we're never clear about ...

 NY - Jan 23, 2009 Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” imagines a US under the yoke of joint German and Japanese rule. And even Roth’s mother, at one point, ...

By tony – Altered Carbon (Richard K. Morgan); – Worlds of Weber (David Weber); – Moby Dick: a Screenplay (Ray Bradbury); – Ubik: the Screenplay (Philip K. Dick); – The Jack Vance Reader (Jack Vance); – Project Moonbase and Others (Robert A. Heinlein); – Or Else the Lady Keeps the Key (Kage Baker);

By Ben Child Lem, who died in 2006, was a prolific novelist and essayist. Philip K Dick, meanwhile, has provided the source material for several Hollywood films, including Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report.Science fiction and fantasyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2...

By David Pescovitz Previously:Philip K. Dick on Kurt Vonnegut - Boing BoingDavid Gill interviews Jonathan Lethem about Philip K. Dick - Boing ...Philip K. Dick 1977 video interview - Boing BoingPhilip K. Dick blog: Erik Davis and Three Stigmata - Boing BoingPhilip K. Dick robot - Boing Boing

As a time-traveling high school dude in the "Bill and Ted" movies, Keanu Reeves blazed a path through the great expanse of Western civilization, with detours to heaven and hell for good measure. In the "Matrix" trilogy, he was Neo, the One, the hacker turned messiah who uncovers the underl...

Kevin Wayne Jeter) (b, 1950) was born in Los Angeles and started reading science fiction and suspense novels at an early age. While others in class were reading the “acknowledged” classics, Jeter wrote his book reports on novels by authors such as Philip K. Dick and Robert Sheckley. He atten...

By Rob Mackie As usual, Pixar set themselves a challenge: this is their first sci-fi film and is dialogue free for its first half. WALL-E and EVE, its robot central figures, have elements of Woody and Buzz (old and rough v smooth and new), in a plot that's half Philip K Dick, half metal romance. There's an ec...

By DevastatorJr Actually, this is pretty much what EVERY Philip K. Dick book is about, except in the Science Fiction books, the inner turmoil is projected outwards in the form of government conspiracies, mad cyborgs and alien invaders. This one was the naked beast itself. It was quite disturbing. I don’t wan...

Like Blade Runner and Minority Report, Total Recall was based on a science fiction by the paranoid pillhead Philip K. Dick—in this case, his short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Dick, for whom Carlos Castaneda, ...

By mjp Philip K Dick is one of my favourite writers, with his very matter-of-fact dialogue acting as a steady platform upon which the feelings and motives of the characters are worked out while around them reality blurs, melts, fades and sometimes shatters. Murakami has less of the thinking ou...

 OR - Sep 28, 2008 His stories have been adapted into such films as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. He is also the subject of the ...

By Jeff Ritter Average as a college undergrad project, terrible as a documentary, the author of what became "Blade Runner" deserves a better feature about his life and work.

By Sam Sloan Science Fiction Radio Theater from MoonBooks.net makes some of the best SciFi, Fantasy, Horror and Mystery audio dramas available for your listening enjoyment. There are radio plays available from a plethora of famous authors, including: Ray Bradbury, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ph...

By Jenna Wortham Future worlds described by science fiction visionaries like Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and Robert Heinlein often included wildly inventive methods of transportation to other planets, galaxies and dimensions. When Jake Parker isn't at his day job developing special effects for bi...

By Bill Sherman Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik Philip K. Dick Book,. Book Review: Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick ...

By Michael Hickerson Also making the jump from the printed page to the big-screen is Philip K. Dick’s Ubik. Ubik is a metaphysical comic nightmare on death and salvation that was named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 greatest English-language novels. Orci talks Transformers 2

By DevastatorJr “I want to write about people I love and put them into fictional worlds spun out of my own mind. Not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, I should revise my standards, I’m out of step, I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to real...

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment -- find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!

» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us Many of Philip K. Dick's stories and novels have become successful films since he died in 1982. Now, four of Dick's novels from the 1960s have been bundled into one book to give a new generation the opportunity to discover his futuristic visions.

By Patrick On a more real level, we saw things worse than even the most paranoid person could ponder happening right in front of us as George Bush and his crew sent us to war with Iraq on lies, plain and simple lies, while at the same time writing off anyone who dared oppose them as un-American. As they cont...

A look behind the scenes of this Philip K Dick adaptation from 2002 with Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg. Highlights include discussion of the future world of 2054, scrubbing the image and their first collaboration. A movie that seems to get better with time. Special thanks to 20th Century F...

By john(john@scalzi.com) Subterranean Online has released the first chunk of content from its Summer 2007 edition -- the special Elizabeth Bear issue, don't you know -- and in addition to the Bear audio highlighted yesterday, a Bear column and a Joe Lansdale story, the issue also features a transcription of a pan...

By Ted Gioia Today, the film rights to a Dick short story can bring in close to $2 million to the author’s estate. But during his lifetime, Dick was so poor he bought horsemeat from a pet shop for dinner. His drug habit -- Dick would pop pills by the dozens -- also ate into his income, and fed his paranoia and ps...

By Chris Beaumont Christopher Beaumont spends much of his time writing about entertainment when he isn't sitting in a movie theater. He is known around the office as the "Movie Guy" and is always ready to talk about his favorite form of entertainment and offer up recommendations. Interests include science...

A Paramount Pictures release. Director: Lee Tamahori. Writers: Gary Goldman, Jonathan Hensleigh, Paul Bernbaum. Cast: Nicholas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann. Running time: 1 hour, 36 minutes. Rated PG-13. 3 1/2 stars.

By Dennis Sellers By Aaron Lee Next, based (though barely) on a Philip K. Dick story (1954’s “The Golden Man”), is a fairly entertaining science fiction thriller until it falls apart at the end. The finale collapse is especially disappointing after a bombastic opening in a casino.

By Daniel J. Stasiewski Dick’s work has been adapted before into cinematic masterpieces like Blade Runner and Minority Report and into travesties like Ben Affleck’s Paycheck. Next is a new low for Dick adaptations. It’s a hollow, hyperactive sham of a film, one that wouldn’t embarrass Dick, but should embarras...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) I’m predisposed to enjoy stupid sci-fi movies, usually more based on the ideas then the resulting execution. Next is based on Philip K. Dick’s The Golden Man. And as you know, this is not the first time Dick’s stories have been raped for big screen cinema. At least eight of his stories have been c...

By Liam Lacey Next Directed by Lee Tamahori Written by Gary Goldman, Jonathan Hensleigh and Paul Bernbaum Starring Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel Classification: PG**The movies have done much to popularize the legacy of science-fiction author Philip K. Dick, and his novels and stor...

Memo to filmmakers: Watching Nicolas Cage scrunch up his face, tilt his head and close his eyes doesn't make for an exciting cinematic experience. You'll get a lot of scenes of Cage doing just that in "Next," a silly action film that lacks a key ingredient in a suspense film: suspense. It's ba...

By TV with MeeVee Based on the short story "The Golden Man" by Philip K. Dick, Next is directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day) and is rated PG-13. TV with MeeVee is the irreverent authority on all things TV. From Sci-Fi to sitcoms, Reality Shows to Wrestling, TV with MeeVee not only tells you what to watch, but...

Few subgenres of literature have been subjected to such longstanding critical scorn as alternate history. Despite the occasional publication of such masterpieces as Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel, “The Man in the High Castle,” the more frequent appearance of duds like Newt Gingrich and Wi...

By Webomatica What's good about A Scanner Darkly: love for the Philip K. Dick source material, some surprisingly appropriate acting from Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, and even Keanu Reeves, and certain key moments where the animation evokes the confusion and unreal moments of dru...

By Patrick Walsh Next was directed by Lee Tamahori, best known for XXX: State of the Union, Die Another Day, and getting arrested for soliciting a prostitute while dressed as a woman. On the plus side, it does have Jessica Biel, who is so hot I can't look directly at her. And Julianne Moore is also in it, who I gen...

By David Pescovitz David Pescovitz: My friend David Gill, an emerging Philip K. Dick scholar, wrote this review of "Voices From The Street," the author's last unpublished novel: Philip K Dick is in the midst of a cultural ascendancy. The science fiction writer long-championed by devoted genre fans, freaks...

By Erik Davis It's pretty clear that Jonathan Mostow has a thing for futuristic robots ... and that Hollywood now has a thing for adapting graphic novels into heavily-addictive pieces of visual crack. The director has decided to partner up once again with the writing duo (Michael Ferris and John Brancato...