Philip K. Dick - Modern Day Prophet

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Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952 he began writing professionally and proceeses to write numerous noveels and short story collections. He won the Hugo award for the best novel in1962 for "The Man in the Heigh Castle" and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best novel of the year in 1974 for "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said". Philip K. Dick Died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke. This blog is a tribute to his legend.

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Hands in his pockets he began to walk aimlessly down the sidewalk runnel. And, each minute, feeling more and more scared and desperate. Everything was falling apart around him. And he seemed helpless to halt the collapse; he could only witness it, completely impotent, snatched up and gripped by processes too powerful for him to understand.

Philip K. Dick // Clans of the Alphane Moon (via sleep-sweet)

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But the state of things is so dreary here in the U.S.-they say the elderly and poor are eating canned dog food, now, to stay alive, and the McDonald hamburgers are made from cow’s eyes. The radio also says that today when Charles Colson, the President’s former counsel, went to jail he still wore his Richard M. Nixon tie clasp. “California dreaming is becoming a reality”, is a line from a Mamas and the Papas song of a few years ago, but what a dreadful surreal reality it is: foglike and dangerous, with the subtle and terrible manifestations of evil rising up like rocks in the gloom. I wish I was somewhere else. Disneyland, maybe? The Last sane place here? Forever to take Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride and never get off?

Philip K Dick-July 8,1974: The First Day of the Constitutional Crisis

from The Exegesis

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The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011)

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In Ubik the forward moving force of time (or time-force expressed as an ergic field) has ceased.

THE EXEGESIS OF PHILIP K DICK, Edited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, (2011)

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“Have you ever retired a human by mistake?”

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“Everything is true”, he said. “Everything anybody has ever thought”.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. (via sleep-sweet)

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“What does a scanner see?”

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Philip K Dick (final)

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Philip K Dick.

Visionary author, influential beyond measure in modern sci-fi and self proclaimed “fictionalizing philosopher”

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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

I’ve only read two books by Mr. Dick, this and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , but I can safely say I’ll be reading many more. It is fact that he is considered one of the greatest science fiction novelists of our time, but I just want to say that I think he’s one of the greatest writers of our time, period. No need for putting this man in a genre because he is just a brilliant mind that produces brilliant work. There is just so, so much food for thought in his novels. This particular novel is set in an alternate reality where Japan and Germany control the world after the fall of the Allies after WWII. It basically answers the question, What if Hitler had won the war?

I cannot do much else but stand here and sing praises for it, so all I can say is, go read the book, for heaven’s sake. Enlighten yourself.