Philip.K. Dick - "Arena" 3/6

Philip.K. Dick documentary on BBC's "Arena" originally broadcast on 9th April 1994.

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[subsamadhi]

PKD didn't write the Matrix. The Matrix doesn't really stack up in quality compared to any PKD book really.

[pisces2099]

Where indeed. Phillip K. Dick is the source shall we say of most modern fantasy and science fiction. He is to modern -=fiction=-, not just science fiction, what H.P. Lovecraft is to modern horror

[bjgrace1]

television allows us to become the human zombies

[bjgrace1]

maybe he was seeing the world as it is

[bjgrace1]

has anyone thought so far that philip was seeing outside of the box or as they are calling it know that he saw free of the matrix

[Abismabagrandatimaba]

An extraordinary man. Dick deserves the nomination of being one of the most exceptional and distinguish author of all the times.

[SDIB]

I don't like Anne very much...

[nephildevil]

Got the first chapter of Valis behind me, if the rest is like that, it's gonna be good.

[edisonoside]

Man is the ANTI/nATURE..

[jorgesantoine24]

I just read, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' in three sittings - that's fast for me. Huxley's Brave New World took me ten times as long. I was really impressed with Androids and will read more of Dick. In fact he has sparked my interest in SF, which I haven't been into yet. I just got four SF books from the library as a result: PKD's The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Ray Bradbury's, 'Fahrenheit 451', Alfred Bester's, 'The Stars My Destination', & Jack Finney's, 'The Body Snathchers'.

[subsamadhi]

@jmm1233 The thing that's funny about that is he had this huge complex with understanding religious ideas and he definitely put them in his books. "The Divine Invasion" is a great example of this. Hollywood tends to cater to the lowest commmon denominator so I really hope that they never get their hands on this book of his. That's what sucked about some of his other books that were made into movies. Hollywood doesn't understand what he's doing half the time, nor do many people who read him.