#PKD

[iwonderwh0]

Philip Dick would hate D:BH so much

#dbh #pkd #detroit become human

[orchidblack]

Cover art for Phillip K. Dick's Clans of the Alphane Moon by Davis Meltzer.

#scifi art #paperback cover #scifi horror #pkd

[cryingoflot49]

“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.”

-Philip K. Dick, The Man In the High Castle

#philip k dick #pkd #science fiction #sci fi #philosophy #american literature #authors

[apdistractions]

Philip K Dick & cat

#pkd

[pulkitoki]

Substance_D process.

#art #illustration #artwork #cyberpunk #cyberpunk 2077 #lineart #pkd #scifi #video game #comic art #digital #clip studio paint

[tmarshconnors]

"Truth is as terrible as death but harder to find."

Philip Kindred Dick, often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. 

Born: 16 December 1928, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Died: 2 March 1982, Santa Ana, California, United States

Influential Works: Philip K. Dick's impact on science fiction is profound, with several of his works adapted into popular films. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" served as the basis for the iconic film "Blade Runner," directed by Ridley Scott. The movie's success helped cement Dick's reputation in mainstream culture.

Personal Struggles: Dick faced numerous personal challenges throughout his life, including financial difficulties and mental health issues. His struggles with mental health and experiences with hallucinations and visions heavily influenced his writing, contributing to the surreal and introspective nature of many of his works.

Prolific Output: Despite his personal challenges, Dick maintained a remarkably prolific writing career. He wrote 44 novels and over 100 short stories during his lifetime. His ability to produce imaginative and thought-provoking content at such a high volume is a testament to his dedication to the craft of writing.

Philosophical Themes: Dick's works often explore philosophical and metaphysical themes, challenging the boundaries of reality and identity. Questions about what is real, the nature of consciousness, and the impact of technology on humanity are recurring motifs in his stories, reflecting his deep interest in these subjects.

Posthumous Recognition: While he faced financial struggles during his lifetime, Philip K. Dick gained increased recognition after his death. His influence on science fiction literature and the exploration of complex philosophical ideas have earned him a lasting legacy. The Philip K. Dick Award, established in 1982, is given annually to outstanding science fiction works in paperback original format, honoring his contributions to the genre.

#Philip K. Dick #PKD #Science Fiction #American Writer #Novelist #Short Stories #Blade Runner #The Man in the High Castle #Ubik #A Scanner Darkly #Reality #Identity #Metaphysical Themes #Sci-Fi Literature #Prolific Author #Psychological Exploration #Mind-bending #Human Experience #Science Fiction Magazines #Literary Legacy

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1947, the United States was attacked on all fronts and finally surrendered ending World War II. ("The Man in the High Castle", BK)

#nerds yearbook #alternate history #1947 #world war 2 #world war ii #ww2 #wwii #man in the high castle #pkd #philip k dick #book #novel

[kekwcomics]

THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH (Daw edition, 1983)

Art: Bob Pepper

#bob pepper #philip k. dick #pkd #palmer eldritch #book #books #novels #science fiction #retro scifi #retro science fiction #sci fi #sci-fi #classic science fiction #classic sci fi

[yaqamole]

Help Us Raise Money For Surgery

Hello everyone! So my friend, Eric (@aziru.cos on Instagram), recently found out he has an aneurysm and will need surgery. This has been a really heavy weight on us and something that has been hard to predict what will happen next with. Mostly it means a lot of doctors visits right now. With him also having Polycystic Kidney Disease, it means that he might have to go on dialysis after the surgery. So as you can imagine, it’s been stressful.

But to get to the point, we're trying to raise money in order to take care of medical and living expenses for surgery and the time after. He has set up this fundraiser for it and I'm trying to share it everywhere I can so that we can raise the money that we need. I have a link below with the fundraiser. Anything helps and we'd really appreciate the fundraiser being shared if you can't donate.

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#important #surgery #pkd #medical bills #fundraising #fundraiser #medical expenses

[bigvessel]

Changgging

just got done with A Scanner Darkly

GGG

#ballpoint pen #pkd

[iwonderwh0]

Fun fact: Philip K. Dick in the original "Do androids dream of electric sheep" used androids as a metaphor for nazis. This vision, however didn't get to the film adaptation (1982) where the narrative got changed (which is not a bad or good thing. Just curious how androids are used to refer to different things in fiction)

Some Philip's quotes from this interview:

For me the word ‘android’ is a metaphor for people who are physiologically human but psychologically behaving in a non-human way.

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I got interested in this when I was doing research for "the man in a high castle" and I was studying Nazi mentality, and I discovered although these people were highly intelligent they were definitely deficient in some manner <...> and as I studied the Nazi mentality <...> I became conscious of a very highly intelligent human being who is emotionally so defective that the word "human" could not properly be applied to him, and I used this in my writing in such terms as "Android" and "Robot" but I'm really referring to an actually psychologically defective or malfunctioning or pathological human being

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By the time I got to sheep I was revolutionary enough and existential enough to believe that these defective personalities were so lethal, so dangerous to human beings that it might be necessary ultimately to fight them. In other words that they could not be cured they cannot be changed and that it might literally wind up as a contest to see whether the humans won or "Androids" won. Now, the problem then would be that would we become like the androids in our really effort to wipe them out?

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If you kill a person because he is inhuman do you not become inhuman in the act of killing him?

#androids #philip dick #pkd #do androids dream of electric sheep #blade runner #I just think it's curious how androids are used to represent really different things in different android media #pkd used them as a metaphor for people whose ideology scraped them of empathy #other authors used it as a metaphor for queerness #and there really are limitless ways of how androids are used in the narrative #sometimes there are multiple readings within the same media #I just thought that this specific interview was really curious #when people talk about blade runner they usually talk about the movie version #and it's just interesting to me how drastically different are the book and both of the movies #like completely separate stories #I hovewer like all of them for their own reasons

[gravity-rainbow]

picked up some 80 grit sandpaper for the orbital and its making short work of the left over stain and finish. debating about pulling it apart and putting in tenons or just refinishing it as is on this Morris/Stickley Arts and Craft chair replica.

Comically I think of PKD's The Man in the High Tower. In the beginning of the book one of the characters works for a Japanese firm and his job is to make replica's of old west paraphernalia. The question becomes philosophical, if you make a replica so well does it become what it is a replica of? I have wondered about that.

No this will not be like the original its too commercial but its fun to ponder.

August 8 2023

#refinishing #morris chair #stickley #gustav stickley #arts and craft #reflica #pkd #philosophical question #replica

[orchidblack]

Cover art by Bob Pepper.

#philip k dick #pkd #bob pepper #scifi art #cosmic horror

[cryingoflot49]

Philip K. Dick interview in France, 1977

#philip k dick #pkd #science fiction #sci fi #new wave sci fi #american authors #Youtube

[apdistractions]

#a scanner darkly #pkd #Richard Linklater

[lumber]

Not an AI portrait. Hire an artist today. ••• #JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJanovskyArt #JeauxJ #AScannerDorkly #AScannerDarkly #PKD #PhillipKDick (at Culver City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClxQd7LrG_N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#jeauxjanovsky #jeauxjanovskyart #jeauxj #ascannerdorkly #ascannerdarkly #pkd #phillipkdick