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I got seriously terrified by reading a PKD SF story at 15 about the few surviving humans hiding from war drones still hunting people long after the war had ende
by BurningFrog 2y ago
I got seriously terrified by reading a PKD SF story at 15 about the few surviving humans hiding from war drones still hunting people long after the war had ended.
- stevenwoo 2y agoSecond Variety, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety I've commented this before but it is closer to Terminator than the Harlan Ellison story IMO.
- BurningFrog 2y agoYeah, that was the one. Really burned itself into my mind. The movie was OK, but you can only get shocked once.
- stevenwoo 2y agoSimilar but reverse, I felt unfortunate to have read the novelette after watching Terminator because part way in the story I thought - this is almost all of the AI/self replicating autonomous robot points of the Terminator movie just without the time travel. The movie addition of time travel adds a bit of hope to an otherwise totally bleak story resolution.
- rstuart4133 2y agoHaven't read the book, but I did see "Screamers". Wikipedia says: "Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies, writes that the film is more faithful than most other adaptations". I can't comment on whether that's true, but the movie still haunts me. Odd, since as Wikipedia says "it received a mixed critical reception and failed at the box office". There was nothing mixed about my reception of it.
- BurningFrog 2y agoIt's pretty wild that PKD imagined AI controlled combat drones in 1953, and 70 years we'll soon have them.
- falcor84 2y agoI haven't read that one, but it reminds me of Black Mirror's "Metalhead", which absolutely terrified me.
- yownie 2y agoThe movie Screamers (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/) is based off it, decent sci-fi.
- red-iron-pine 2y agodraws from the same well, intellectually. terrifying stuff, that BM episode is, too.
- lynx97 2y ago[dead]