Dick Heads
On Tue, 16 July 2002, "Dominic Thomas" wrote
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is pretty good. And I had read "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale"
before I saw "Total Recall" - and the link between book and film is
really quite clear. "The Unteleported Man" is quite strange, and
really rather paranoid. That's not unusual. I'd certainly
recommend the more adventurous SF reader to dip a toe in the
strange pool of Mr Dick. Possibly by starting with some of his
short stories, which appear in anthologies of SF from the 70s
(before most of you were born, I know.)
And yes, they can be found in the IFIS library, I'm sure.
dustbin, did you see "A Beautiful Mind"? Not exactly SF, but a good
(if strange) film.
And are you familiar with Wilheim Reich?
You might not want to see it if you're easilly disturbed, but as long as
youremember that Philip K Dick was a sick and thoroughly screwed up
individual,you should be able to make that call yourselves.
And who in IFIS were you expecting to object to that?[...]
Maybe I'll consider reading some of Dick's books now, after being put right
off him by reading the astoundingly bad Deus Irae, and VALIS.
Some of it is quite passable. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"off him by reading the astoundingly bad Deus Irae, and VALIS.
is pretty good. And I had read "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale"
before I saw "Total Recall" - and the link between book and film is
really quite clear. "The Unteleported Man" is quite strange, and
really rather paranoid. That's not unusual. I'd certainly
recommend the more adventurous SF reader to dip a toe in the
strange pool of Mr Dick. Possibly by starting with some of his
short stories, which appear in anthologies of SF from the 70s
(before most of you were born, I know.)
And yes, they can be found in the IFIS library, I'm sure.
Of course, he
was still a drugged-up paranoid schizo who wrote letters to the FBI and
posted them in his dustbin.
On the subject of drugged-up, paranoid schizos posting letters in thewas still a drugged-up paranoid schizo who wrote letters to the FBI and
posted them in his dustbin.
dustbin, did you see "A Beautiful Mind"? Not exactly SF, but a good
(if strange) film.
And are you familiar with Wilheim Reich?