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3 days ago · The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made.
4 days ago · The SFFaudio Podcast #803 – The Gun by Philip K. Dick, read by Tommy Patrick Ryan. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the story (29 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Evan Lampe, Jonathan Weichsel, and Tommy Patrick Ryan
2 days ago · Westerfeld’s books have won many awards, including the Philip K. Dick (Special Citation), Indie Choice and Locus, and been named New York Times Notable and ALA Best Books of the Year. His work has also won the Victorian Premier’s, Aurealis and Ditmar awards in Australia, and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire in France.
2 days ago · Blade Runner is an American cyberpunk media franchise originating from the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, featuring the character of Rick Deckard. The book has been adapted into several media, including films, comics, a stage play, and a radio serial.
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- Michael Deeley
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4 days ago · Blade Runner was inspired by the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by noted science-fiction author Philip K. Dick. Like the film, the novel concerns rogue androids being hunted down by a human who begins to grow ambivalent about his role as an assassin.
- Stephen Eldridge
4 days ago · Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and Vonnegut.
5 days ago · Philip K. Dick. Dick treated science fiction as a game of epistemological peek-a-boo, the way the genre looked in prototype when Poe wrote “Von Kempelen and His Discovery” (1849).
