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Year 2008

 

Rate Video: Pokemon Episode 30 (Japanese Version)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Fri, Oct 10

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Does Coil See Dreams of Electric Mice!? Air Date: October 21, 1997 The title is a reference to a short story called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" more...written by Philip K. Dick, which also served as the basis for the futuristic sci-fi thriller BLADE RUNNER.

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Rate Book Review: The Philip K. Dick Collection - Blogcritics.org

Original at blogcritics.org external link    Sat, Dec 5

Book Review: The Philip K. Dick Collection Blogcritics.org (blog) Dick's most famous story, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became the basis for Blade Runner, the greatest film based on his work. Ubik is a witty farce ...

Rate DEIRDRE MCQUILLAN rounds up this week's fashion

Original at irishtimes.com external link    Fri, Dec 4

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They set up their business in 1999, inspired by a question from Blade Runner and the Philip K Dick novel it's based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...

Rate Best Bets

Original at Denver Post external link    Fri, Nov 20

Presented by the Museum of Outdoor Arts, the centerpiece is a literal interpretation of the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Empathy Test 07

Original at vimeo.com external link    Fri, Sep 18

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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

Rate Telling Tales

Original at strimoo.com external link    Sun, Aug 23

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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

Rate The robot rebellion is only a matter of time

Original at TMCnet external link    Mon, Jun 15

He cited the robot stories of Philip K. Dick (such as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which was adapted into "Blade Runner") as inspiration but said, "We'll destroy ourselves before robots get a shot." I spoke with Scott Farrar of Industrial ...

Rate ... Don't trust the trumpet player

Original at Chicago Tribune external link    Thu, Jun 11

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He cited the robot stories of Philip K. Dick (such as "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which was adapted into "Blade Runner") as inspiration but said, ... and more »

Rate Art and Adam

Original at Business Standard external link    Wed, May 27    39 related articles

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 India and More's island Utopia, Orwell's 1984, the Bible, Alan Turing, Huxley's Brave New World, Golding's Lord of the Flies, Asimov's robotics, Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Stepford Wives, ...

Rate Terminator Salvation: The Paul Dehn Effect Continues

Original at 2SNAPS.TV external link    Sun, May 24    39 related articles

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 CA McG made the cast and crew read Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner) to get a feel for the bleakness of the worlds created in those novels. I have to say he did splendid job, but I doubt he ...

Rate 80s movie appreciation: Blade Runner

Original at Examiner.com external link    Fri, May 22    39 related articles

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Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? proposes that even in 2021, Americans will be driven by a bourgeois desire to fit in, and surpass, one's neighbors. Rick Deckard, the book's protagonist, owns an electric sheep. ...

Rate Halcyon to Adapt Dick's 'Tears'

Original at CINEMASPY.COM external link    Tue, May 12

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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. ...

Rate Comic book news

Original at Tampa Bay Newspapers external link    Mon, May 11    39 related articles

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 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 ...

Rate After the Apocalypse

Original at Wall Street Journal external link    Thu, May 7

Similar issues echo in "Blade Runner," a movie about robots based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, and the "Terminator" films, in which a military computer network comes to life and triggers a war against all ...

Rate Previewed, June 2009

Original at Newsarama.com external link    Tue, Apr 14

 NJ Boom Studios and Steve Dupre begin the adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The book is, obviously, the inspiration for the flick Blade Runner, which most people like, and Dick is one of the few sci-fi writers I just ...

Rate Blade Runner novel to be turned into comic book series

Original at Coventry Telegraph external link    Thu, Apr 9

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 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 ...

Rate Do LED circuit designers dream of electric sheep**?

Original at EDN.com external link    Wed, Apr 8

 MA Sign up now because the Workshop is just about full **For those of you unfamiliar with the writings of Philip K. Dick, his book, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” was later turned into the Harrison Ford movie, “Bladerunner.”

Rate Electric sheep light up the night with “Extreme Sheepherding”

Original at Geek.com external link    Fri, Mar 20

by Doug Osborne posted on March 20, 2009 5:31 am I’m not sure if this is what science fiction author Philip K. Dick had in mind when he wrote the book, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” but it certainly makes for an interesting video. ...

Rate Memory and its failures — reliable engines for drama

Original at San Jose Mercury News external link    Fri, Mar 6

  USA And the film "Blade Runner" was based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, who has repeatedly explored what might happen when technology allows the implanting of memories. The subject of memory often stirs up some of the most ...

Rate Dial H for Happiness: How Neuroengineering May Change Your Brain

Original at All Things D Blogs external link    Wed, Mar 4

 CA by Quinn Norton Sci-fi author Philip K. Dick may have best anticipated neuroengineering in his most famous work, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” the basis of the movie “Blade Runner.” The main character and his wife get up in the morning and ...

Rate Dial H for Happiness: How Neuroengineering May Change Your Brain

Original at Wired News external link    Mon, Mar 2

Sci-Fi author Philip K. Dick may have best anticipated neuroengineering in his most famous work, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , the basis of the movie Blade Runner . The main character and his wife get up in the morning and select their moods ...

Rate When science fiction turns into science fact

Original at The Herald external link    Fri, Feb 27

 UK The idea of just how human robots can become is central to the Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, later made into a film as Blade Runner. Science-fiction has a long tradition, in both books and films, of predicting events and ...

Rate ‘Terminator Salvation’ Concept Art

Original at Geeks of Doom external link    Wed, Feb 4    39 related articles

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 NY - We had a respectful conversation, I gave him Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to read but his answer was: ...

Rate PREVIEW: Terminator Salvation set to tear screens apart

Original at LIVENEWS.com.au external link    Mon, Feb 2    39 related articles

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 Australia - Feb 2, 2009 “We had a respectful conversation, I gave him Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to read but his answer was: ...

Rate Excellent Production Feature for ‘Terminator Salvation’

Original at RopeofSilicon.com external link    Fri, Jan 30    39 related articles

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Total Film  WA We had a respectful conversation, I gave him Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to read but his answer was: “Until it’s on the page, I’m not doing it.” PREVIEW: Terminator Salvation set to tear screens apart LIVENEWS.com.au

Rate Pantalla grande: ¡Vuelve Terminator!

Original at Houston Chronicle external link    Thu, Jan 22    39 related articles

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 TX - Jan 22, 2009 historia postapocalíptica The Road, de Cormac McCarthy, y Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, de Philip K. Dick, el relato que dio pie a Blade Runner. ...

Rate Top 10 Genre Book-to-Film Adaptations

Original at Comics2Film external link    Wed, Jan 21

 CA - Loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner is a fan favorite, earning the No. ...

Rate 2 BR 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut - Philosophy Now

Original at philosophynow.org external link    Tue, Dec 9

2 BR 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut Philosophy Now (subscription), UK - Dec 9, 2008 Tale by Margaret Atwood; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (brought to film as Blade Runner). ...

Rate After Long Wait, New Iran Album Set For February '09 | pensatos.com

Original at pensatos.com external link    Tue, Nov 25

They say they aren’t even named for the country, but for a character in a Philip K. Dick novel. A little research shows that Iran is indeed a woman in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the novel on which Blade Runner is based. ...

Rate Are Pentagon Nerds Developing Packs of Man-Hunting Killer Robots?

Original at Guerrilla News Network external link    Tue, Nov 25

the likes of which were previously known only in seminal science-fiction exercises as old-school as Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Philip K. Dick’s stories, “Minority Report” and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...

Rate The List Universe - jamil's posterous

Original at jamil's posterous external link    Mon, Nov 24

Blade Runner. Ridley Scott, 1982. Bladerunner12-07-07. Original Story By: Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) In a cyberpunk vision of the future, Man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones ...

Rate _grayswandir_: Meme of long.

Original at users (Livejournal) external link    Sun, Nov 23

By Grayswandir Probably Philip K. Dick. He wrote some really great short stories, and The Man in the High Castle is wonderful. (I seem to remember really liking Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, too, but it's been years since I read it, ...

Rate Fatal Error: Just How Much Geeky Stuff Do You Have?

Original at randallensley (Blogspot) external link    Sun, Nov 23

By Randall Ensley Arrival by Shaun Tan; Valis by Philip K. Dick; The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers; Fury by Aaron Allston; Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Dick; On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers; Ubik by Philip K. Dick ...

Rate 10 Movies That Are Better Than The Books - The List Universe

Original at The List Universe external link    Sun, Nov 23

Blade Runner. Ridley Scott, 1982. Bladerunner12-07-07. Original Story By: Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) In a cyberpunk vision of the future, Man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones ...

Rate The Agitation of the Mind: The ABC of literary adaptations

Original at misterneil (Blogspot) external link    Fri, Nov 21

By Neil Fulwood All the Pretty Horses (Billy Bob Thornton, 2000; based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy) Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982; based on the novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ by Philip K Dick) Clockwork Orange, A (Stanley Kubrick, ...

Rate Pentagon Developing Man-Hunting Killer Robots? « Suzie-Q

Original at Suzie external link    Fri, Nov 21

the likes of which were previously known only in seminal science-fiction exercises as old-school as Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Philip K. Dick’s stories, “Minority Report” and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...

Rate Angels and Aliens

Original at LA City Beat external link    Wed, Nov 19

 CA - Nov 19, 2008 Temporary Angeleno Philip K. Dick was the master of the genre, and the film Blade Runner, based on his book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, ...

Rate Los Angeles CityBeat - Angels and Aliens

Original at LA City Beat external link    Wed, Nov 19

Temporary Angeleno Philip K. Dick was the master of the genre, and the film Blade Runner, based on his book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, created an indelible impression of a polluted, claustrophobic future L.A. (There is some ...

Rate Rut Roh Raggy « A View From The Watters’ Edge

Original at wavemancali (WordPress) external link    Wed, Nov 19

on November 19, 2008 at 8:08 pm Charlene. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on November 19, 2008 at 8:40 pm dave. @Dar. You are going to Canada next week … don’t push your luck. @Char. Philip K Dick was indeed a visionary. ...

Rate All-Time Best Titles « The Abbeville Manual of Style

Original at The Abbeville Manual of Style external link    Tue, Nov 18

Another Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Alex Haley: Roots. Harlan Ellison: The City on the Edge of Forever. on November 21, 2008 at 2:52 pm BJ Muntain ...

Rate Top Ten Book Adaptations

Original at FemaleFirst.co.uk external link    Mon, Nov 17

Based on Philip K Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Blade Runner was directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford and depicting a dystopian Los Angeles in ...

Rate Blade Runner

Original at movietome.com external link    Mon, Nov 17

Based on the novel ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") by Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner is the story of a band of synthetically engineered ... www.movietome.com

Rate Old BBC Video Documentary: "Philip K. Dick - A Day in the ...

Original at Echodemic external link    Mon, Nov 17

By trainspot Most people will be familiar with the films that Philip K. Dick's writing inspired, for example "Blade Runner," based on his short story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and "Total Recall" derived from "We Can Remeber it for you ...

Rate Incentives Matter: 7th Art: Blade Runner (1982)

Original at Incentives Matter external link    Mon, Nov 17

By Pedro H. Albuquerque 7th Art: Blade Runner (1982) · One of the best films ever, directed by Ridley Scott and based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. Arguably the best sci-fi movie of all times. Never gets old. ...

Rate lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration ...

Original at lines and colors external link    Fri, Nov 14

By Charley Parker There is a compendium of four of his better known novels, Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s: UBIK, The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...

Rate Rutger Hauer cuts to the quick about 'Blade Runner' < News ...

Original at PopMatters external link    Fri, Nov 14

By Louis R. Carlozo It seems odd, considering that just this last September, Warner Home Video’s director’s cut seemed to offer the last word on this 1982 cult classic, inspired by Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ...

Rate A New Way of Creating Investigative Journalism? | Sources Say ...

Original at PopMatters external link    Fri, Nov 14

By Jillian Burt In Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the first sign that the environment was degrading irrepairably was that owls—the symbol of wisdom—began to fall dead from the skies. It’s an image that didn’t make it into ...

Rate Blade Runner (1982)

Original at This Distracted Globe external link    Thu, Nov 13

And he said, ‘Do you know who Philip K. Dick is?’ I said, no. He said, ‘Well there’s a book called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ And I said, okay, I’ll read that. I read it. I didn’t like it that much. But I thought, okay, ...

Rate Virtually criminal

Original at Moneyweb external link    Thu, Nov 13

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 South Africa - Nov 13, 2008 Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" became Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), Paul Verhoeven's 1990 movie Total Recall was inspired ...

Rate Philip K. Dick: 5 Great Novels Review - Total Sci Fi

Original at Total Sci Fi Feed (All) external link    Thu, Nov 13

Five of visionary novelist Philip K. Dick’s best works gathered in a single volume, featuring The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Martian Time-Slip, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ubik and A Scanner Darkly… ...

Rate Campaign for the American Reader: Top ten dystopian novels

Original at americareads (Blogspot) external link    Wed, Nov 12

By Marshal Zeringue Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K Dick Dick definitely belonged to the grimy school of apocalyptic dystopias. His noirish detective thriller shares many themes with the other less typically sci-fi books here: the fusion ...

Rate Today is Warren Zevon Day « The Crotchety Old Fan

Original at The Crotchety Old Fan external link    Tue, Nov 11

By crotchetyoldfan Later on that same day, Skiffy Tube offers up what is probably the latest incarnation of Blade Runner - Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep novel. 6:30 pm est. Bring a picnic basket and you can easily make it ...

Rate Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

Original at blogs.sakienvirotech.com external link    Mon, Nov 10

By ajdonnison DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? went on to become the movie Blade Runner, released just months after Philip K. Dick's death at the age of 53. Indeed, at nearly one movie every 3 years, Dick is only surpassed by Stephen King in the ...

Rate Book review: Philip K. Dick's *Humpty Dumpty in Oakland*

Original at curled up with a good book external link    Mon, Nov 10

Philip K. Dick was a major science fiction writer, the author of books and stories that have been made into movies - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (made into Bladerunner starring Harrison Ford), Minority Report and A Scanner ...

Rate Famous last words

Original at Malaysia Star external link    Sun, Oct 12

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 Malaysia - Oct 12, 2008 Which was the crux of the matter in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, based on the Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, about a bounty ...

Rate Writer Travis Wright Responds to Blade Runner 2 Backlash ...

Original at First Showing external link    Tue, Oct 7

By Alex Billington Philip K. Dick wrote a short story called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" - terrible title, but that was the basis for "Blade Runner" - let it remain a stand alone classic and DO NOT MAKE A SEQUEL!! No one, including Ridley Scott ...

Rate CINEMA RETRO ATTENDS LONDON BOOK LAUNCH FOR MICHAEL DEELEY, PRODUCER OF "BLADE RUNNER", "THE WICKER MAN", "THE ITALIAN JOB" AND "THE DEER HUNTER"

Original at cinemaretro.com external link    Sun, Oct 5

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Deeley’s crowning creative achievement was producing Blade Runner. The film, based on Philip K. Dick’s story, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Had started life as more romantic tale but when Ridley Scott got on board, it developed into something harder and darker. The physicality of t...

Rate Blade Runner 2: Written By Someone Who Probably Needs A Slap ...

Original at hecklerspray external link    Tue, Sep 30

By Stuart Heritage Obviously Jeter should be writing the sequel, as he wrote the sequel to the original book and he was good friends with Philip K Dick (the author of Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep). And Jeters sequels were actually ...

Rate Book Review: Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick

Original at Blogcritics external link    Mon, Jul 14

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 ...

Rate Philip K. Dick's Early Novels: The Sixties, Before They Happened ...

Original at New York Magazine external link    Thu, May 15

The mind-blowing novels of Philip K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and scores more) are often thought of as still-relevant artifacts of the sixties counterculture. But reading Dick's early novels from the ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Kyle XY: Does Kyle Dream of Electric Fish

Original at TV Squad external link    Tue, Jul 17

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By Isabelle Carreau Filed under: Kyle XY, Episode Reviews(S02E06) An interesting episode title for an interesting episode. According to TV.com's Kyle XY guide, this week's title was inspired by a Philip K. Dick novel titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," which was the inspiration for Bladerunner. Co...

Rate Note how love makes radiant the electric toad

Original at MetaFilter external link    Tue, Jun 12

By chuckdarwin The Library of America has published Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (edited by Jonathan Lethem): The Man in the High Castle , The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interview with Lethem from this month's WIRED is reprinted here (to av...

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