Great video Odyssey My friends younger sister, when she was doing internship on pediatric ward in hospital in Croatia, discovered a shelf in a room where doctors chill - out. The shelf was completely filled with almost all of Dick's novels. There was a pediatrician there who "infected" all of his colleagues with great passion for Dick and over the years they made a little library there.... Anyway, let's make a friendly competition: How many Dick novels read thus far ? I'm at 17
@@MagusMarquillin My favorites are : "The Man in the High Castle" " Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" " Martian Time- Slip""Scanner Darkly" "Ubik" He is such a special writer, that even his less successful novels ( according to critics) are enjoyable to me. Just reading his prose is like" enjoying the ride and not worry about destination" if you know what I mean....😀 There is his" Exegesis " that I've been putting off reading for years now....Very difficult read I am told. It is about his spiritual / occult jurney while he was at his most crazy... Great story from Dick's life : He had a vision in his dream , showing him medical problem with his son and the doctor to whom he should bring him.Doc was incredulous at first but after doing some tests....! ... Surgery went OK and doctor later claimed that there was no way in hell for Dick to know the diagnosis.....
@@holydissolution85 Yeah, I know what you mean, Do Androids Dream... felt like something I could follow rationally only so far - society often doesn't make much more sense anyway even if there are answers out there somewhere - but so often it rang true regardless. Good sales pitch, sounds like PKD was a special kind of crazy where he's more tuned in then not.
@@MagusMarquillin You get the idea... 😁 I remember one critic saying that there's some weird unconscious " resonance" present in his mind all the time while he is reading Dick.
Huh Blade Runner is hardly Dick at all. They gave the replicants EMPATHY at the end, and that is completely 180 degrees counter to what Dick did in the novel.
I’m a science fiction writer going through a divorce, and I’m struggling with drug abuse, mental illness, attempted suicides, and financial struggles. And I can relate to PKD’s paranoia about technology, the government, and mega corporations. His books are some of my oldest companions and I will forever cherish his life and work. Thank you, Philip Kindred Dick.
Thank you for that. Dick has been my all-time favourite SF author and I always wondered how many books he produced. He was prolific. I also wonder if you'd agree that Hugo doesn't go to the right hands as often anymore?
I generally try to at least attempt to read Hugo and Nebula winners each year. Sometimes I enjoy them (Network Effect), other times I don’t (A Memory Called Empire). I do accept however that awards are subjective and, as much I’d like to, I don’t have time to read all shortlisted books to come to my own conclusion. I will be watching the awards closely this year as we had some worthy titles published last year that I’m hoping will be recognised. I guess we’ll have to see. Saying that, awards are also subject to what the publishing industry chooses to publish. Thanks for watching!
@@Sci-FiOdyssey Hugos and Nebulas meant something in those days. Hell they meant something until I guess about 5 or so years ago. Now they are just woke checklists. It's a shame.
@@Vandervecken there are two shorts stories that i remember the one abiut the old man who has memory problems but there is more to him.the other is the story is the robots that are at war with esch other and they can look like humans.👍👍
@@emmanuelboakye1124 The second (robots) I am pretty sure is Second Variety (which was made into the not-bad but unfortunately low-budget movie Screamers). Not sure of the first. It sounds a little like the Cosmic Puppets, but that was a novelette; however that was adapted from the short story A Glass of Darkness. Do you mean Dr. Meade, who it turns out is the Zoroastrian deity of light, Ahura-Mazda?
@@Vandervecken the first short story the the old man is a robot that has been sent to kill.the second story is about humans fighting robots then the robots becom so advanced they start fighting each other.
The first book by PKD that I read was Radio Free Ablemuth. It could be considered one of his Valis novels. It has a dystopian mood which was - for me - more convincing than anything I had read to that point. As such I remember the book with affection. The Man In The High Castle remains my favorite PKD novel. The adaptation, as much as I saw of it, was very entertaining, but I only saw the first season.
I love Ubik, but personally I consider Martian Time-Slip more of a crazy ride. It may not be a better book, but it is, I think, more inventive stylistically, especially in the repetitions of the dinner party from different viewpoints that are possibly/probably causes by Manfred. I never liked Blade Runner, and it seems I am in a club of 1 on that. Deckard is entirely different from Dick's character, who was a hen-pecked husband, not a film noirish loner than the girls would go for. The empathy that should have been accessible through Mercerism is instead actually given to the replicants, which is really absurd here; Dick's point was that the replicants absolutely did NOT have a shred of empathy, so Rutger Hauer saving Harrison Ford at the end absolutely undermines what Dick was writing about here. Plus I really object to the loss of the great fake police station and the cab ride scenes, and the spider scene. All in all a decent movie I guess, but it sure as hell isn't Dick's work.
You can sum up new wave sci-fi as Acid Sci-fi. They tripped and they wrote very trippy sci-fi. Zelansky, DIck, Moorcock etc. All very acidy sci-fi. All excellent too.
Robert Anton Wilson in one of his Cosmic Trigger books talks about being involved in Valis and the group that experienced that whole thing. He said at the time it was very real and he reserved judgement about if it really was or not. I really like the writings of Robert Anton Wilson but I trust his word like a clown at a children's party. The man is a trickster and cares not for truth in the service of spreading chaos. Hail Eris etc. He's kind of a madman but he's a madman with a coherent philosophy. Well worth reading if you're feeling brave. Luv and Peace.
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One of my favourite authors…great presentation
My favorite author. My hero. "The man who remembered the future."
Great video Odyssey
My friends younger sister, when she was doing internship on pediatric ward in hospital in Croatia, discovered a shelf in a room where doctors chill - out. The shelf was completely filled with almost all of Dick's novels. There was a pediatrician there who "infected" all of his colleagues with great passion for Dick and over the years they made a little library there....
Anyway, let's make a friendly competition: How many Dick novels read thus far ? I'm at 17
One is all I've dared so far, but I liked it. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". Much more like Alice in Wonderland then I expected.
Do you have a favorite? Or any you didn't enjoy?
@@MagusMarquillin My favorites are : "The Man in the High Castle" " Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" " Martian Time- Slip""Scanner Darkly" "Ubik"
He is such a special writer, that even his less successful novels ( according to critics) are enjoyable to me. Just reading his prose is like" enjoying the ride and not worry about destination" if you know what I mean....😀
There is his" Exegesis " that I've been putting off reading for years now....Very difficult read I am told. It is about his spiritual / occult jurney while he was at his most crazy...
Great story from Dick's life : He had a vision in his dream , showing him medical problem with his son and the doctor to whom he should bring him.Doc was incredulous at first but after doing some tests....! ... Surgery went OK and doctor later claimed that there was no way in hell for Dick to know the diagnosis.....
@@holydissolution85 Yeah, I know what you mean, Do Androids Dream... felt like something I could follow rationally only so far - society often doesn't make much more sense anyway even if there are answers out there somewhere - but so often it rang true regardless.
Good sales pitch, sounds like PKD was a special kind of crazy where he's more tuned in then not.
@@MagusMarquillin You get the idea... 😁
I remember one critic saying that there's some weird unconscious " resonance" present in his mind all the time while he is reading Dick.
This is great. Thank you for the summary! I've read and watched the Man in the High Castle. Loved it and interested in delving more into PKD.
When I read his work I think “this wouldn’t translate to screen well” yet it does. I loved Blade Runner and the other works you mentioned. Great video
Huh Blade Runner is hardly Dick at all. They gave the replicants EMPATHY at the end, and that is completely 180 degrees counter to what Dick did in the novel.
I’m a science fiction writer going through a divorce, and I’m struggling with drug abuse, mental illness, attempted suicides, and financial struggles. And I can relate to PKD’s paranoia about technology, the government, and mega corporations. His books are some of my oldest companions and I will forever cherish his life and work. Thank you, Philip Kindred Dick.
you are addicted to escapism. look in the mirror and your immediate surrounding and tend to you garden. mature
Thank you. Very informative biographical on Dick. I've read just a couple of his stories, but, do intend to read more.
Thank you for that. Dick has been my all-time favourite SF author and I always wondered how many books he produced. He was prolific. I also wonder if you'd agree that Hugo doesn't go to the right hands as often anymore?
I generally try to at least attempt to read Hugo and Nebula winners each year. Sometimes I enjoy them (Network Effect), other times I don’t (A Memory Called Empire). I do accept however that awards are subjective and, as much I’d like to, I don’t have time to read all shortlisted books to come to my own conclusion. I will be watching the awards closely this year as we had some worthy titles published last year that I’m hoping will be recognised. I guess we’ll have to see. Saying that, awards are also subject to what the publishing industry chooses to publish. Thanks for watching!
@@Sci-FiOdyssey Hugos and Nebulas meant something in those days. Hell they meant something until I guess about 5 or so years ago. Now they are just woke checklists. It's a shame.
"Blade Runner" was great as was "Man In the High Castle":
I like his short stories👍👍
My favorite of all is Expendable. What a final line! It's like getting punched in the face for the reader.
@@Vandervecken there are two shorts stories that i remember the one abiut the old man who has memory problems but there is more to him.the other is the story is the robots that are at war with esch other and they can look like humans.👍👍
@@emmanuelboakye1124 The second (robots) I am pretty sure is Second Variety (which was made into the not-bad but unfortunately low-budget movie Screamers). Not sure of the first. It sounds a little like the Cosmic Puppets, but that was a novelette; however that was adapted from the short story A Glass of Darkness. Do you mean Dr. Meade, who it turns out is the Zoroastrian deity of light, Ahura-Mazda?
@@Vandervecken the first short story the the old man is a robot that has been sent to kill.the second story is about humans fighting robots then the robots becom so advanced they start fighting each other.
@@emmanuelboakye1124 The first has to be We Can Remember it for You Wholesale.
The first book by PKD that I read was Radio Free Ablemuth. It could be considered one of his Valis novels. It has a dystopian mood which was - for me - more convincing than anything I had read to that point. As such I remember the book with affection.
The Man In The High Castle remains my favorite PKD novel. The adaptation, as much as I saw of it, was very entertaining, but I only saw the first season.
I love Ubik, but personally I consider Martian Time-Slip more of a crazy ride. It may not be a better book, but it is, I think, more inventive stylistically, especially in the repetitions of the dinner party from different viewpoints that are possibly/probably causes by Manfred.
I never liked Blade Runner, and it seems I am in a club of 1 on that. Deckard is entirely different from Dick's character, who was a hen-pecked husband, not a film noirish loner than the girls would go for. The empathy that should have been accessible through Mercerism is instead actually given to the replicants, which is really absurd here; Dick's point was that the replicants absolutely did NOT have a shred of empathy, so Rutger Hauer saving Harrison Ford at the end absolutely undermines what Dick was writing about here. Plus I really object to the loss of the great fake police station and the cab ride scenes, and the spider scene. All in all a decent movie I guess, but it sure as hell isn't Dick's work.
You can sum up new wave sci-fi as Acid Sci-fi.
They tripped and they wrote very trippy sci-fi.
Zelansky, DIck, Moorcock etc.
All very acidy sci-fi.
All excellent too.
Robert Anton Wilson in one of his Cosmic Trigger books talks about being involved in Valis and the group that experienced that whole thing.
He said at the time it was very real and he reserved judgement about if it really was or not.
I really like the writings of Robert Anton Wilson but I trust his word like a clown at a children's party. The man is a trickster and cares not for truth in the service of spreading chaos.
Hail Eris etc.
He's kind of a madman but he's a madman with a coherent philosophy.
Well worth reading if you're feeling brave.
Luv and Peace.
Actually, Radio Free Albemuth was the first book of the VALIS trilogy. The Owl in Daylight would have been a stand-alone novel.
Super fan
March 2, 2022 marked the 40th anniversary of his death
You should change your name from "Odyssey" to "extreme short trip".
The wizard in the machine, that's science fiction! What a Dick! LoL, he challenged and change science fiction, like Asimov, but weirder! Kaffka
wowwww. this was painful to watch.
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