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If it doesn't have to be written by Dick, the canonical work would be Stanislaw Lem's The futurological Congress
by nn3 10y ago
If it doesn't have to be written by Dick, the canonical work would be Stanislaw Lem's The futurological Congress
- nullc 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) is (loosely) based on that and also fits the dystopia description. It's not clear to me that this form of dystopia is really all that distinct from the Huxleyan one-- the virtuality is just a more effective soma.
- anigbrowl 10y agoThe Huxleyan one is apathetic. The Lem version is illusory.
- psyc 10y agoHow on earth could I have completely missed this movie. I just watched it, and as movies go, it was very good.
- lobster_johnson 10y ago"Loosely", ha. I would argue only thing they share is the one word in the title. It's a great book. It's interesting (in the context of this discussion) that it's a satiric dystopia in which the main character spends most of the book in a drug-induced dream about being in a future utopia that turns out to be a Huxleyian dystopia that's even worse than the present day.