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

the narrorator sounds like a snot nosed faggot!

Nice spelling, douche.

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

saw Total recall when i was 8. funny that the short story is about 5 pages and is a fraction of what the movie is. WOW i became a PKD fan because of Arnold. Whoa!

The Wachowski brothers wrote it. And yes, Philip K Dick definately influenced them and many other filmmakers/authors/artists in the sci-fi industry. The Wachowski brothers openly admit Dick as a influence on their work and lives.

look into quantam physics i.e. thought create reality.

A lot of 'The Matrix' was borrowed from Grant Morrison's cult comic 'The Invisibles'
Kind of punk, anarchist, metaphisical supernatural fiction, instesd of bullet time.

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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

Not at all. The real source is Plato.
He's one of those dead,ancient,Greek philosopher guys.
See his "Allegory of the Cave".

I agree, Lovecraft was huge on the horror world as Dick is to sci fi. You can read Stephen King or Clive Barker or any horror author out these days and you can tell theyre fans of Lovecraft. Not that Stephen King and Barker aren't original, i love the majority of their work but you have to admit Lovecraft was and is a big influence.