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Even by science fiction standards it’s uncanny how Dick depicted future worlds that seem to be coming to pass. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964) predicted the effects of global warming and the escape into immersive role-playing games. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) — filmed in 1982 as Blade Runner —...
Hey, Dickheads (why, https://feddit.uk/u/Emperor, why? )!...
For my money, the worst thing about Blade Runner is how it created a franchise based on its own adaptation. The net negative outcome is we’re now categorically unlikely to ever see a cinematic portrayal of Rachael Rosen throwing a goat off a roof....
From the creator of the documentary:...
A documentary which goes on an imaginative tour from the Colorado grave where Dick is buried to the suburbs of California where he lived and worked. Talks to his ex-wives, friends and biographers....
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In 2005, David Hanson left Philip K. Dick’s head on a plane. Hanson, a roboticist, was en route to Google to present his team’s project— a painstakingly crafted android replication of the author, who died in 1982—when he changed planes and left behind a duffel bag. The robot’s head surfaced at a couple of airports...
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2913906...