Philip K. Dick is Missing!

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By semillama on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 04:24 pm:

By TBone on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 04:34 pm:

    On William Gibson's blog, his headline for that story was "IF IT CORNERED YOU, IT COULD EASILY BORE YOU TO DEATH". But for some reason, you only see the headline if you subscribe to the RSS feed.

By droopy on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 04:55 pm:

    ever read "i am alive and you are dead: a journey into the mind of philip k. dick"? i've enjoyed his novels and short stories, but i'm not sure i'd like to be cornered by any version of him - real or mechanical - and listen to a long rant on religion or whatever else.

By Antigone on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 11:23 pm:

By droopy on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 03:34 pm:

    i'm listening to the motley fool radio show. they're interviewing the ceo of irobot, makers of "practical, affordable household robots".

    this is definitely a pkd moment.

By V on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 05:46 pm:

    ...droopy,for me,I started reading s.f. at the age of 5 (no shit),then I found the same ideas,were being repeated over and over,so I got into horror,Dean R. Koontz is still one of the best,(much as I like Stephan King,but he tends work like a production line in a a car factory.)...but I will allway aggree with Mr. King on one thing,clowns are creepy and perverted....and kazu will regard me as the Anti-Christ for saying that....more stuff,"a pkd moment?",its lost on me ,but in London 10 years ago you could have a "Hamlet moment",it was a cigar add,with variations,like you find the tomb of an Egyption King, then a wall comes down behind you,so you are shut in for the next 5000 years,so you light up your Hamlet Cigar,and everything is cool,nothing is a problem,(the music to that was "air on a g sting"...no wonder we shut down tobacco ,vertisments 10 years back...I do recall a pop group by the name of "Motley Crew",but cant recall the songs.

By droopy on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 06:21 pm:

    the "motley fool" show is a business and investment radio talk show that comes on saturday afternoons here. the name comes from shakespeare's "as you like it" - a reference to the jester touchstone. don't ask me why they chose that name

    listening to the ceo of a household robot manufacturer talking about production and all the mundane aspects of marketing robots just felt like science-fiction. it also made me think of a philip k. dick (pkd) short-story called "the unreconstructed m", where a little robot - almost like one of those irobots they were talking about on the radio - committs a murder and then plants evidence (hair, fiber, etc.) in order to frame a human being.

    i thought: if pkd ever saw one of those irobots, he'd freak out.

By V on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 08:26 pm:

    ...regarding tiny robots,I recall some as small as flys,in fact the entire word was replicated by robots, but as I have now read over 6000 books,the name is gone,but I still remember "a fall of moondust"by I. Asimov.,a spacecraft under tons of sand.,and the air is running out....more,I still recall the first time I saw the size of the universe, in my head,in mathamatics,I all most passed out,it is so massive and endless.

By V on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 08:52 pm:

    Most of all I like,as I call them,"end of the world books",as that day may be more close than we think,hence also my love of movies like "28 days",or "the time machine" or as I saw again last night,"Logans Run".My love of such books and movies I cant explain,and I dont have the time for psychoanalysis.,unless you have a shortcut solution?...or you may be of the same mind as me.