Philip K Dick was a modern and postmodern dynamo. His visions of the present and future, while bleak and disturbing, often explored the nature of reality. *What is real? What makes us human? Can any real answers be obtained?*
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Understanding the Table of Contents of Philip K. Dick's novel, “A Maze of Death.”
At the beginning of Philip K. Dick's novel, A Maze of Death, he provides a table of contents which, other than the chapter and page numbers, appears to have no connection to the actual content of the ...
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What is the meaning of the Latin inscription on Anarch Peak's tomb?
In Philip K. Dick's novel Counter-Clock World, the following inscription is said to be written on the Anarch's tomb:
Sic igitur magni quoque circum moenia mundi
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What are the motivations of the Erads?
In Philip K. Dick's novel Counter-Clock World, time on Earth is flowing backwards after an event called the "Hobart Phase", so that dead people come back to life, become younger, and "find a womb" to ...
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Can someone explain the end of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
In Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? when Deckard goes to Oregon at the end of the novel, what is all that about? Did he have an epiphany? What exactly was the epiphany? Is he ...
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Why did the Rosen corporation want to discredit the Voight-Kampff test?
In Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? why did the Rosen corporation want to discredit the Voight-Kampff test? If the new Nexus 6 types were to be so good and human like that they ...
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Why did Deckard get a citation from his police department?
In Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? why did Deckard get a citation at the end from his police department? Because he retired too many andys in a single day? I thought the police ...
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Philip K. Dick Essay
Does anyone have any clue where I can find (in any format, although physical would be preferred) an essay written in 1964 (at least according to this site) by Philip K. Dick, that goes by the name of ...
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Why did they name the movie “Blade Runner”?
I just finished reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and I found it interesting that Deckard was always described as a bounty hunter never as a blade runner or anything similar.
What exactly ...
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Difference between science fiction/fantasy and futurism according to Philip K. Dick
In this letter from Philip K. Dick to The Ladd Company, he references a Harrison Ford interview where he says that that Blade Runner is not fantasy nor science fiction, but futurism.
What's did he ...
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In “Time Out Of Joint” what's with objects turning into slips of paper?
At a couple of points in this Philip K. Dick novel the main character experiences physical objects disappearing to be replaced by slips of paper. He maintains a collection of these slips.
I cannot ...
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What's up with Horeselover Fat and Philip Dick towards the end of VALIS
I have just finished reading VALIS, and I remain puzzled by something. It seems to be made clear that Horselover Fat is, in essence, an alter ego of Philip Dick - a separate personality of someone ...
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What is the meaning of the ending of “Man in the High Castle”?
The end of Man in the High Castle consists of:
Understanding all that (and I'm assuming I'm interpreting it correctly), what did Dick want the reader to get out of this? What's he saying? My ...
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Why is the future LA full of chinese in Blade Runner?
In the movie Blade Runner, the future Los Angeles(2019) is depicted as having lots of chinese people and chinese influence. Why is that the case?
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In Dick's “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, is Deckard a replicant?
I have watched different versions the movie and read the book a number of times, and I still can't decide: was Deckard a replicant? I know that he has an emotional reaction to the question of he feels ...
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Philip K. Dick short story with a man growing a space ship in his back yard?
A discussion I was reading about consensus reality made me think of a story that I probably read in some Philip K. Dick anthology years ago.
The story began from the viewpoint of a man who was ...
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On the personal relation between Phil K. Dick and Robert Heinlein
It's well known that Dick and Heinlein were friends. On Dick's wikipedia article there is an extract from the introduction to the 1980 short story collection The Golden Man in which Dick praises ...
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How “hard” is the science behind the genetics mentioned in Blade Runner?
How accurately does the science in Blade Runner reflect the current understanding of genetics?
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Did Philip Dick watch Blade Runner before his death?
Was Philip K. Dick able to watch a complete version of "Blade Runner" before his death or just unedited material?
The "Blade Runner" release date according to Wikipedia and IMDB was 25 June, 1982. ...
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Where can I find a full copy of Philip K Dick's Exegesis?
I've heard recently that a 90% reduced Fat version of the Exegesis was going to come out in print. However, I would really like to get a hold of a full copy. They aren't supposed to exist, however, ...
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What are the different works for Film and Television based on the works of Philip K. Dick? [closed]
I recently finished watching the great series "Total Recall 2070" that was based on Philip K. Dick's universe. Philip K. Dick's absurdist blendings of philosophical problems with Sci-Fi has a unique ...
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Other than Alpha and Delta, were there any other types of androids in Total Recall 2070?
The plot of the TV series Total Recall 2070 implies that there are a variety of different types of androids.
Almost all of the workers are called 'Deltas'.
Does the series or any of the ...
