Is anyone a fan of author Phillip K. Dick?

I just read The Man in the High Castle after seeing it mentioned in an article about alternative history fiction (in the book the Germany and Japan won WWII. Japan occupies the US west coast and the Nazis have the east coast.)

It was good, not great.

He seems like an interesting writer. A strange one, but an interesting one. I’ve never myself read any of his works, but I’m familiar with them through my dad, who is a huge science fiction buff, and I’ve seen A Scanner Darkly, with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, and it was a great film, very aware of itself, and so it didn’t get lost within its plot, with an alluring visual appeal.

Blade Runner (the Directors cut—NOT the original) is by far my favorite screen adaptation of Dick. (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

I am a fan of Philip K Dick. He had a very disturbing imagination. The last book I read was Ubik which described ‘half life’ where the dead could linger on with limited ability to communicate. His books are full of unsettling ideas like that. The film adaptation I like most is ‘Blade Runner’.

One of my favorites was “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, the short story that was the source for Blade Runner. Dick’s other well-known film adaptation was Total Recall.

His was an interesting, if troubled, mind.

I like Dick!

I like Science Fiction Writer Phillip K. Dick! My favorite adaptation is the Original Blade Runner, though Total Recall is great. So is Minority Report.