Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Author Profile: Philip K. Dick
A personal reflection by Lisa Tuttle in Times Online about Philip K. Dick: "The fame of the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who died 25 years ago next week, has grown in the years since his death, thanks largely to films based on his work [first and notably the 1982 movie Blade Runner, based on Dick’s novel titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?], but also to changes in the world, or at least to our perception of it, that were prefigured in his writing. ... His books had shown me that science-fiction could explore inner space just as well as outer, and had made me determined to write it myself. But the life of the man himself could have been a warning against trying to make a living at it."
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