eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 20 2008 | Philip K. Dick, books
Philip K. Dick's Ubik may be brought to the big-screen.
Quoted: Philip K Dick's paranoid novels have spawned a ton of action movies from Blade Runner to Paycheck but they've only recently started to be seen as fodder for art films like Scanner Darkly. And now one of Dick's weirdest books, Ubik, has just been optioned by Celluloid Dreams, a European company better known for producing or distributing movies like Son Of Rambow, Persepolis and I'm Not There. Dick's daughter, Isa Dick-Hackett, will co-produce the movie and says that Celluloid Dreams' vision is close to her own.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 15 2007 | Science Fiction, author, books, Philip K. Dick, thepugetnews
An appraisal of where one reporter places Philip K. Dick among the literary/writerly pantheon.
Quoted: Of all American writers, none have got the genre-hack-to-hidden-genius treatment quite so fully as Philip K. Dick, the California-raised and based science-fiction writer who, beginning in the nineteen-fifties, wrote thirty-six speed-fuelled novels, went crazy in the early seventies, and died in 1982, only fifty-three. His reputation has risen through the two parallel operations that genre writers get when they get big. First, he has become a prime inspiration for the movies, becoming for contemporary science-fiction and fantasy movies what Raymond Chandler was for film noir: at least eight feature films, including “Total Recall,” “Minority Report,” “A Scanner Darkly,” and, most memorably, Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner,” have been adapted from Dick’s books, and even more—from Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” to the “Matrix” series—owe a defining debt to his mixture of mordant comedy and wild metaphysics.
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eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 27 2007 | books, reviews, Philip K. Dick, thepugetnews
This is a really excellent, although not terribly favorable, review of the recently unearthed Philip K. Dick book, "Voices from the Street."
Quoted: The attraction is clearly mutual, and Dick hints at a secret history. “Of course, you have a sweet wife… such a sweet little wife you have,” Sally coos to her brother. “ ‘You don’t need me anymore.’ ” Sally and Bob join Hadley and Ellen for afternoon cocktails at the Hadleys’ home. Sally offers Ellen a hand-me-down blender, then explains her reasoning to tightwad Bob: “ ‘I told Ellen we’d give her the two-pint one; it’s really too small for us. Then when we come down next time she can whip up a daiquiri for us…’ ” The condescension is hardly lost on Ellen, but Hadley just keeps on mooning: “[Sally] had put on a yellow drawstring blouse of Ellen’s and one of her short, light summer skirts… [S]he sat curled up on the couch, her bare legs tucked under her, one pale arm resting outstretched behind her.” The sexpot sister dressed in the wife’s clothing is a phenomenal, arresting image -- the most compelling and resonant in the book.

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