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the DEMONIC DREAMS of Philip K Dick

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the DEMONIC DREAMS of Philip K Dick...​



All these topics and more filled the pages of science fiction writer Philip K Dick, and now they are filling movie and television screens around the world. But, did these themes stem from conscious (or subconscious) mind of the author himself? Or was there in fact a completely different and wholly insidious source of these recurring themes...?




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patrick jane said:

the DEMONIC DREAMS of Philip K Dick...​



All these topics and more filled the pages of science fiction writer Philip K Dick, and now they are filling movie and television screens around the world. But, did these themes stem from conscious (or subconscious) mind of the author himself? Or was there in fact a completely different and wholly insidious source of these recurring themes...?




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Spooky Eh?

It’s hard to tell at times if these folks were seeing the future or if “the future” became modeled after those things they saw. Orwell’s 1984 (written in 1949) is another great example.
 
I have read all of the science fiction novels of Phillip K. Dick, over 20, and a couple of the non-science fiction novels like Mary and the Giant.
I have never read THE MAN WHOSE TEETH WERE ALL EXACTLY ALIKE.
 
In one of the novels, the protagonist (likely P KD himself,) was a narc. He wore a " scramble suit" to mask his identity
 
He was narcing on himself.

Philip K. Dick was an Episcopalian. He was close friends with Bishop Pike, who died in the holy lands - lost in the desert - and his wife managed to be rescued.

this is loosely covered in THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER

Angel Archer is the daughter-in-law of Bishop Pike - she is the only female protagonist in Phildickian literature.
 
The classic PKD protagonist is a guy with a
Low-playing job who somehow winds up involved with those ruling the world.

Again, usually Dick himself. In his role as clerk in a record store - and struggling writer. One book had both roles - Phil himself as well.as his other identity as clerk in record store.
 
WE CAN REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE was the short story that was made into the movie TOTAL RECALL.

rarely did Dick expand a short story into a novel

his wacky titles were usually changed by publishers and movie makers

BLADE RUNNER was made into a movie, from the novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
 
THE MOLD OF YANCY was a 1955 short story which was eventually greatly expanded into the 1964 Nobel THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH.

very little is the same between novel and ss - other than Yancy himself (loosely based on Eisenhauer.)
 
Roog is what THE DOG says in Dick 's first story. The dog sees - every Friday morning - the garbage truck coming to take away the valuable food his owners have carefully packed into metal cans. The dog eventually thinks the garbagemen will take away his owners themselves.

Ubik is a spray invented by Ella Runciter who is in Half-Life - in this world, once you die, you still have a certain number of minutes of Half-Life - wherein relatives can talk to you.

Vast Active Living Intelligence System - VALIS - aka ZEBRA - not for mortal understanding.
 
VALIS
The Divine Invasion
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Such is the Trilogy.
Such is the mind of Phillip K. Dick.
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