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PKD is a gold mine of stories for the screen.

godelski 5y ago
For anyone that missed it Amazon's Electric Dreams are just PKD short stories. I was rather surprised that they got some big name actors in it.
- pstuart 5y ago
  I missed it, thanks for the heads up.
- CRConrad 5y ago
  Kind of a clever name though, reminiscent as it is of androids and sheep.
paxys 5y ago
PKD is a gold mine for heavily modified stories for the screen. His imagination, themes, sci-fi concepts and world building are all fantastic, but he falls way short on characters, dialogue and plot.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
  > but he falls way short on characters, dialogue and plot. Like most sci-fi writers, to be honest.
  - BerislavLopac 5y ago
    Ursula LeGuin being one notable exception.
    - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
      Since you bring up LeGuin here I guess I will respond to the canard that Dick does not do characters well, in 'Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown' LeGuin argued that Dick had one of the only interesting characters in all of Science Fiction, that being Nobusuke Tagomi from The Man in The High Castle, the other being D-503 from Zamyatin's We (IIRC) of course it has been nearly 4 decades since I read the essay, and I have a hard time finding an ebook version of The Language Of The Night (which is where I encountered the essay) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night that I can pay for. on edit: grammar, moving text
      - CRConrad 5y ago
        Been at least four decades (four and a half?) since I read We, but I can't recall a single character from it that had more life than a cardboard cut-out. (A bit like Brave New World in that respect.)
- theshrike79 5y ago
  cough Isaac Asimov cough
- astrange 5y ago
  It's interesting to see how they change his kind of old-timey story titles into cool modern ones.
- astrange 5y ago
  It's interesting to see how they change his kind of old-timey story titles into cool modern ones, eg "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" -> "Total Recall".
- fouc 5y ago
  On the other hand, there's often too much dialogue on the screen. (The Expanse for example)

For anyone that missed it Amazon's Electric Dreams are just PKD short stories. I was rather surprised that they got some big name actors in it.

pstuart 5y ago
I missed it, thanks for the heads up.
CRConrad 5y ago
Kind of a clever name though, reminiscent as it is of androids and sheep.

paxys 5y ago

PKD is a gold mine for heavily modified stories for the screen. His imagination, themes, sci-fi concepts and world building are all fantastic, but he falls way short on characters, dialogue and plot.

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
> but he falls way short on characters, dialogue and plot. Like most sci-fi writers, to be honest.
- BerislavLopac 5y ago
  Ursula LeGuin being one notable exception.
  - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
    Since you bring up LeGuin here I guess I will respond to the canard that Dick does not do characters well, in 'Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown' LeGuin argued that Dick had one of the only interesting characters in all of Science Fiction, that being Nobusuke Tagomi from The Man in The High Castle, the other being D-503 from Zamyatin's We (IIRC) of course it has been nearly 4 decades since I read the essay, and I have a hard time finding an ebook version of The Language Of The Night (which is where I encountered the essay) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night that I can pay for. on edit: grammar, moving text
    - CRConrad 5y ago
      Been at least four decades (four and a half?) since I read We, but I can't recall a single character from it that had more life than a cardboard cut-out. (A bit like Brave New World in that respect.)
theshrike79 5y ago
cough Isaac Asimov cough
astrange 5y ago
It's interesting to see how they change his kind of old-timey story titles into cool modern ones.
astrange 5y ago
It's interesting to see how they change his kind of old-timey story titles into cool modern ones, eg "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" -> "Total Recall".
fouc 5y ago
On the other hand, there's often too much dialogue on the screen. (The Expanse for example)