Philip K. Dick

[Howdyphillip]

I absolutely loved Roog. It is a two page short story narrated by a dog and it was published in 1953. I am linking a copy of the story,

http://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd055-0.html

[Theda Baratheon]

Only PKD I've actually read is Androids because Blade Runner is in my top 5 all-time flicks. I've also seen Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report. Want to read much more of his stuff...

:thumbsup:

[Kojiro]

Well, I've finally started reading that copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that's been sitting on my bookshelf and I'm halfway through it. I think Mugatu sums up my reaction pretty well. I've heard his style was rather unique, but... wow. I definitely need more of this.

[Gasp of Many Reeds]

I think Mugatu sums up my reaction pretty well.

Exactly how I felt when reading my first Dick book ('Time Out of Joint') and Ragel Gumm's watching the soft drink stand disintegrate before his eyes.

[GuardstheRealmsofMen]

Surprised no one has said Ubik yet. PKD wrote it all at once on crazy uppers. You'd think it'd be terrible, but it is actually pretty mindblowing. I wrote some essays on it for a philosophy course in college once. It's one of his real reality questioning books. If you're up for real beyond-Matrix level solipsism, go for it.

I also second what everyone has said about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Very diferent from Bladerunner, but both great in their own ways.

[Gasp of Many Reeds]

Surprised no one has said Ubik yet. PKD wrote it all at once on crazy uppers. You'd think it'd be terrible, but it is actually pretty mindblowing. I wrote some essays on it for a philosophy course in college once. It's one of his real reality questioning books. If you're up for real beyond-Matrix level solipsism, go for it.

I also second what everyone has said about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Very diferent from Bladerunner, but both great in their own ways.

Ubik is still on my to-read-pile, but I'll probably be picking it up once I finish my latest 'academic' reading.

[matt b]

I discovered some of my dad's old PKD paperbacks when I was in elementary school and middle school. I think that had as much to do with how I turned out as discovering bands like The Grateful Dead and Frank Zappa did when I was high school. He had a couple that I don't see talked about as much but I really remember enjoying, notably Vulcan's Hammer, The World Jones Made, and Eye in the Sky. I've read a ton of PKD since then, even at his worst he manages to be at least interesting.

[voodooqueen126]

I am writing an Alternative Universe novel, and trying to explain it to my father, but he couldn't seem to distinguish it from Isaac Asimov (whom he read as a young man) and when I explained it he didn't think it would sell very well.

So is Man in a High Castle a good place to start?

[Richard Writhen]

Gotta get The Penultimate Truth, hardbody. I put literally everything off.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, one of the main differences I found between Blade and Androids.was that weird religion the book has. Also the purchasing of real biological animals was like buying vehicles.

[Gasp of Many Reeds]

Also, one of the main differences I found between Blade and Androids.was that weird religion the book has. Also the purchasing of real biological animals was like buying vehicles.

The religious weirdness certainly isn't in the film, but there's certainly references to the replacement of a decimated natural fauna by replicant animals in the film, e.g. the replicant boa scale Decker uses to help find Zora, and the replicant owl in the Tyrell Corporation office.

[Richard Writhen]

Yeah that's true. But it was more explicit in the book. He has to like take out a loan to buy his sheep or goat or whatever.

 

 

 

 

 

That's one of those occasions where the adaptation and the original are very different, but equally awesome IMO.