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Philip K. Dick - Science Fiction Author - Official Site

Philip K. Dick - Science Fiction Author - Official Site

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Philip K. Dick Personal life[edit] The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. When Philip turned five, his father was transferred to Reno, Nevada. From 1948 to 1952, Dick worked at Art Music Company, a record store on Telegraph Avenue. Dick was married five times: Jeanette Marlin (May to November 1948)Kleo Apostolides (June 14, 1950 to 1959)Anne Williams Rubinstein (April 1, 1959 to October 1965)Nancy Hackett (July 6, 1966 to 1972)Leslie (Tessa) Busby (April 18, 1973 to 1977) Dick had three children, Laura Archer (February 25, 1960), Isolde Freya (now Isa Dick Hackett) (March 15, 1967), and Christopher Kenneth (July 25, 1973). Dick tried to stay off the political scene because of the high societal turmoil from the Vietnam War; however, he did show some anti-Vietnam War and anti-governmental sentiments. Career[edit] "Several years ago, when I was ill, Heinlein offered his help, anything he could do, and we had never met; he would phone me to cheer me up and see how I was doing. Pen names[edit]

From the distant past Before this blog ever existed, I inhabited other places you could only get to by modem. First Compuserve, then Genie, and then the Well, and answered questions and so on in each place, and hung around. I've no idea if there are any archives anywhere of the Compuserve stuff or the Genie topics, but The Well is still there, I'm glad to say, and every few years I go back and am interviewed and hang around the inkwell.vue area for a few weeks. So, in context of the current interview , which has only just begun, I found myself reading a post from the 20th of June 2000, written while I was writing Which I am reposting a bit of here because a) there's lots more cool stuff like this on the various Well topics I did (here's the first , the second , the third, -- and b) if ever a story was meant to be on this blog, it's this one. ...last week Maddy woke me up early in the morning. "Daddy," she said, "There's a bat on the kitchen window." "Grumphle," I said and went back to sleep. "Nope," I said.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. First published in 1968, the book served as the primary basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner. Setting[edit] Overview[edit] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The remaining populace live in cluttered, decaying cities in which radiation poisoning sickens them and damages their genes. The main Earth religion is Mercerism, in which Empathy Boxes link simultaneous users into a collective consciousness based on the suffering of Wilbur Mercer, a man who takes an endless walk up a mountain while stones are thrown at him, the pain of which the users share. Androids[edit] Earlier androids were easier to detect because of their limited intelligence. Plot[edit] The novel presents a day in the life of bounty hunter Rick Deckard, as he tracks down renegade androids who have assumed human identities in a post-apocalyptic world where animals are rare and the human population has largely migrated off-world.

Patricia C. Wrede's Blog One of the most interesting things, to me, about reading old (like, 1930s or earlier) how-to-write books is the way they look at viewpoint. Modern writing texts focus mainly on who the viewpoint character is, or on the type of viewpoint (first, second, or third-person) and how Read more → I’m still working on revisions, and one of the first things I did was to make what I think of as the real outline of the story. I haven’t seen much, if any, discussion of this technique, so I thought I’d talk about how I do it So this is another open mic week – chat, make announcements, complain about your writing, whatever. So I am currently stuck in the middle of editorial revisions on the Work-In-Process, and have been for an enormously long time, mostly due to outside factors. Plot skeletons seem to be very popular as planning tools these days. OK, the power is back on and they’re coming to remove the giant tree later this week. We had a nasty storm Sunday, and I lost power, phone, and internet.

Blade Runner (1982 George R. R. Martin's Official Website Blade Runner All Critics (96) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (9) | DVD (30) This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental. As a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers. This definitive print should be the last little push that "Blade Runner" needs to complete its 25-year journey from box office failure to cult favorite to full-blown classic. The film still represents the cutting edge of dark science fiction. Blade Runner: The Final Cut plays better now than ever. Open the champagne: Blade Runner is finally just the way Ridley Scott wanted it. They all plod along while sometimes dazzling, sometimes boring special effects whiz by and Ford's climactic confrontation with Hauer approaches. A motion picture masterpiece on the short list of Reasons Why This Medium is Worthwhile. [VIDEO] Blade Runner is one of the most enigmatic yet problematic science fiction films ever made. January 4, 2008

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