Mike's comments
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Mike's comments from the Philip K Dick group.
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wrong, his early works are sometimes better than his later works, I'm thinking about real early-career books like Solar Lottery and The Game Players of Titan which were both great.
nice find, chilly
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that's cool Adam, but I'd hardly call those two books MINOR books.
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I'll re-recommend a UK writer Jeff Noon to anyone looking for outlandish surrealism in their sci-fi fiction. Vurt and Pollen and .... gah, it's all good, mostly.
Yeah, the Cosmic Puppets really shook me up quite a bit.
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Erich,
I thought you were gonna say, "Maybe by creating cybernetic organism however, we can ally as a human race, all conglomerate into a big ball and physically CRUSH the new world order by rolling all over them."
LOL
Mohammed,
I don't think people really understand that NOTHING in this (current) Corporate Collapse is by accident. It's all staged, to usher in the NEW WORLD ORDER. Seems like only a cybernetic old-man's-big-toe on everyone's forehead will let me know that EVERYBODY (finally) UNDERSTANDS this.
I wanna see those gnarled, hairy nubs go on those Sheople foreheads to PROVE that they are finally awake to the Corporate Lie that Philip K Dick tried to warn us about in so many of his books. These criminals will shoot their own soldiers, they'll invent wars and they'll do 9/11 (and 7/7) without blinking a single eyelid.
:)
Mike
This following three paragraphs are part of a speech written by science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick in 1978, possibly for an appearance scheduled at the University of Missouri in Rolla, May 5, 1978, that Dick cancelled at the last minute.
It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question "What is reality?", to someday get an answer. This was the hope of most of my readers, too. Years passed. I wrote over thirty novels and over a hundred stories, and still I could not figure out what was real. One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." That's all I could come up with. That was back in 1972. Since then I haven't been able to define reality any more lucidly.
But the problem is a real one, not a mere intellectual game. Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups -- and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into the heads of the reader, the viewer, the listener. Sometimes when I watch my eleven-year-old daughter watch TV, I wonder what she is being taught. The problem of miscuing; consider that. A TV program produced for adults is viewed by a small child. Half of what is said and done in the TV drama is probably misunderstood by the child. Maybe it's all misunderstood. And the thing is, Just how authentic is the information anyhow, even if the child correctly understood it? What is the relationship between the average TV situation comedy to reality? What about the cop shows? Cars are continually swerving out of control, crashing, and catching fire. The police are always good and they always win. Do not ignore that point: The police always win. What a lesson that is. You should not fight authority, and even if you do, you will lose. The message here is, Be passive. And -- cooperate. If Officer Baretta asks you for information, give it to him, because Officer Beratta is a good man and to be trusted. He loves you, and you should love him.
So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart. I like to see them come unglued, and I like to see how the characters in the novels cope with this problem. I have a secret love of chaos. There should be more of it. Do not believe -- and I am dead serious when I say this -- do not assume that order and stability are always good, in a society or in a universe. The old, the ossified, must always give way to new life and the birth of new things. Before the new things can be born the old must perish. This is a dangerous realization, because it tells us that we must eventually part with much of what is familiar to us. And that hurts. But that is part of the script of life. Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
Read the rest of it here.
...and nobody on the Philip K Dick discussion group seems concerned by this revelation?
hello!
wakey-wakey, people!
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Here's my full 9.997/10 (rounded up to 10/10) review of Southland Tales.
http://www.videovista.net/reviews/aug09/...
it is just pure ESCAPISM with an sinister overlay of State Control - perfect PK Dick territory - Flow My Tears gets a name mention. The atmosphere is totally odd. Unique.
I've still gotta read Man Who Japed and Crap Artist.
cheers
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you'll have to be careful liberally plunging into the non-famous books, Mohammed, for every ho' knows 'Dick' is an acquired taste.
LOL
one of his first THE GAME PLAYERS OF TITAN.
so quaint, so lovely, so mind-f**k.
http://radiofreealbemuth.com/
yeah, latest news 2007 --- that's why I emailed them in the first place.
in lieu of anything decent coming from the Dick camp any time soon, you'all should watch SOUTHLAND TALES.
I still haven't received a reply to my email.
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice.
Thursday, I sent this email to Utopia Pictures:
Dear Utopia Pictures,
I'm the moderator of the Goodreads Philip K Dick discussion group. I know you acquired the rights to the PK Dick novels Flow My Tears The Policeman Said and Radio Free Albemuth (two of my favourite Dick novels) and heard that filming had finished on Albemuth in 2007.
And that's it.
What happened to the completion/distribution of Albemuth? Did anything ever take off with Flow My Tears? This would have been a perfect Tianannmen Square Today variant.
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maybe I've missed some essential news about these proposed film projects???
If so, spill the beans on these.
And what about the biopic THE OWL IN DAYLIGHT - did that dissolve? or is it still in pre-production
it's nice to see so many new members to this discussion group, but Philip K Dick has such a loyal following of readers, we should be 269,000 members by now, eager and pro-active to get the best PKD discussions on the web going.
Please consider INVITING all your friendlists to this discussion group so it can finally get the numbers of members it deserves.
I wanna see THOUSANDS more new members by this time in July.
:)
Mike
PS: it's great to see this group is finally waking up again after its winter hibernation.
:)
remember, clicking this groups "discussion board" tab will open up the entire forum's backlog of subjects, have fun here.
PS: I've read Philip K Dick's "Mary and the Giant" novel. Here's my review of it on THE ZONE.
http://www.zone-sf.com/wordworks/marygia...
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