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Has anyone heard of Philip K. Dick? (1 Viewer)

imhere4themusic

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Has anyone heard of Philip K. Dick?

His stories were adapted into well known movies such as Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, Paycheck and most recently A Scanner Darkly, though none of his books were faithfully adapted and only took action elements. A scanner Darkly looks promising though.

Dick was a humanist writer and his stories were moral concerning existence. Has anyone read any of his stuff? I love them.
 

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Well he is probably one of the most influential sci-fi writers ever, so I'd say a few people here have heard of him :p. Personally though I'm not a big sci-fi fan so I've never ventured beyond Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. A Scanner Darkly does look amazing though doesn't it? For once this year the Best Animated category at the Oscars is going to be tight: Madagascar, Robots, Wallace and Gromit Movie, Corpse Bride AND A Scanner Darkly.. great year for animated films.
 

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hell yeah
been meaning to read some of his stuff for ages

took a shitload of acid and wrote a hell of a lot of cool sci-fi over a short period.
 

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Yeh well it's great stuff. A Scanner Darkly and Valis are my favourites. He wrote a load of short stories though and there all good too.
 

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Wow it's so refreshing to hear of people my age who actually know who he is. Normally it's old people.. I've been into him for like 4 years and still hooked.
 

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