Philip Kindred Dick , better known under the name of feather Philip K. Dick , born on December 16th, 1928 with Chicago, deceased on March 2nd, 1982 with Santa Anna, 56  km in the south of Los Angeles in California, was an American author of Romance and Nouvelle S of Science-fiction.

Biography

Youth

The death of his/her sister twins, Jane Charlotte, the January 26th 1929 (then hardly 6 weeks old), deeply affects it until the end of its life. This rather incomprehensible death is allotted to an allergy to the mother's milk. All its life Philip Dick feels that part of itself is missing, which is most probably at the origin of the exceptionally strong duality of its work. (One sees of it an echo in his novel " Dr. Bloodmoney" , in the person of the little brother " intern" , still-born child, in telepathic relation with its adult twin). Enough young person, it suffers from Vertige S and later one diagnoses a Schizophrénie to him which will be refuted thereafter. Terrorized by what he imagines, he discovers the Science-fiction in the magazine of news Stirring Science Stories and detects the only possible exit there to exteriorize his anguishes.

At four years, his parents Divorce NT and there remains alone with his mother, with Berkeley. Although the marital psychologist predicted that separation would not assign the child, this one will however complain all its life about it. His/her father definitively breaks any relation with the family.

After having started with the the University of California of the philosophical studies which it will never finish (the Maccarthysme being then with its apogee, it is returned for communist sympathies ), he is devoted to his principal passion: music, at the point to make its trade of it. He works indeed as programmer for a radio station, and in same time, as salesman of discs in a store with Berkeley, Universal Music . There one recognizes many autobiographical elements used in " Radio free Albemuth" , its attractive posthumous and paranoid novel, which recreates with a remarkable evocative capacity the very particular time where prepared, in Berkeley, the wave Hippie and later movements of the Années 1960.

The majority of the biographers suppose that in fact the pulp S American ( Galaxy , Fantasy and Science-fiction , Astounding Stories , etc) made him discover the science fiction. Whereas it is still with the college, it starts to write its first texts of SF (and of poetry), of which some are published in the Berkeley Gazette , the very first one being The Devil , dated from the January 23rd 1942.

In May 1948, Jeanette Marlin becomes his first wife. He will divorce it 6 months later (their centers of interest diverged completely) for remarier in June 1950 Kleo Apostolides, of Greek, militant origin minor gauchist, driven with FBI because shown Communism. Dick must then face the visit of two federal agents, which require of him to inquire into his wife. He refuses, but however ends up binding with one among them, George Scruggs, fascinated by the speeches of Dick and his mysterious profession of writer. There still, this wife ultragauchist and these events are reported almost without change in " Radio free albemuth"

Writer

Pushed by his wife, it starts in 1952 a career of writer by profession. Its beginnings are ignored by the world of the SF which with caution looks at this author of which the scientific concepts are rather odd and the literary style nonfree from defects. After very many news written during this period, like Beyond Dregs the Wub , Mr. Spaceship , The Gun , Variable The Man , The Builder , Second Variety , to only quote most known, it decides to launch out in the novel, remunerative.

Its first novel, solar Lottery , very policy, is published in 1955. It takes as a starting point the idea of the mixed strategies in Game theory to suggest the idea that in competing context of the nations it can be advantageous to draw with the fate controlling them at random intervals.

Side family life, the relations are degraded little by little. Dick, which writes especially the night, cannot support any more to see his more active wife only him, and the glance of the neighbors, which see it each morning paresser in the veranda, the met badly at ease. It feels unceasingly tracked, épié, supervised. To succeed in supporting a rate/rhythm of fast work, it takes all kinds of drugs, in particular Amphétamine S, which regularly plunge it in terrible depressions.

Its paranoid side develops with the wire of the months: if it does not succeed, it estimates, it is because it is victim of plots fomented against him. A double effect plays in fact against him:

  • the science fiction is not any more one kind with the mode, the phenomenon of the pulps having passed.
  • the style of Dick arrives too much in advance for the public of the the United States of the time, whose mood is more with the euphoria with suspicion. Its news and novels will meet success in France only after 1968 and in the United States that in the tread of the film Blade runner.

That does not arrange of anything, in the immediate future, the psychological situation nor financial of the novelist.

He divorces his wife in 1958 and meets Anne Williams Rubinstein, from which the husband comes to die. Begin a flirt where Anne and Philip have the impression to include/understand one and the other as if they had never known anybody other. The three little girls of Anne bind very quickly with this large bearded man who unloads at them without shouting station and wife their mother on April 1st 1959. A girl, Laura Archer, are born from this union the February 25th 1960.

The woman of Philip encourages it to write a work which makes of him a famous and recognized author. He then begins the drafting of the Maître of the High Castle .

Once again, the couple turns badly. Anne sees in Dick the image of a writer who it is not and does not make a point of being, this one not being able to decide to give up its kind of predilection, science fiction, although its dream is to be recognized as writer of general literature. His wife opens a jewelry. Philip feels once again maintained by his wife, good with nothing. He suspects Anne of having against him ideas of murder.

He will declare later: “It was a psychotic loophole. It frightened me and by twice it tried to kill me. ”

When Anne leaves the house while taking along her daughter, it sinks in the depression. The divorce takes place in 1964.

In 1962, the Master of the High Castle is published: it is an immense success. A public " dickien" start to be created, filled with enthusiasm by work. The following year, the novel gains the Prix Hugo. In 1963 and 1964, it connects the novels: Clans of the moon alphane , Us them Martians , Shows and God come from the Centaur , this last being one of its most known novels.

In 1964, it remarie with Nancy Hackett, which is 21 years old. It has with it a second child, Isolde Freya (called quite simply Isa). Again, the marriage does not function. Dick shows his wife “to want to make like the others”, and to seek in spite of him to integrate it in what it calls “the Californian good company”. The fashionable life does not interest it: it is devoted entirely to its books, and leaves less and less at his place. The assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King revolt it, and it ceases voting this same year.

During do this period, Dick written the androïdes dream of electric sheep?, which will be used as a basis for the film Blade Runner , but more especially Ubik which will be seen later like the masterpiece of the writer.

In 1970, it is at the end of the roller: it has strong troubles with the tax department and his wife, the world topicality makes it bitter (in particular the Guerre of Vietnam). He writes at that time Coulez my tears, known as the police officer , who carries the print of its depresses moment. Nancy leaves while taking along Isa in September.

This period is darkest of its life. Only, given up by his wife, the author opens his house with all the drug addicts, Hippie S or junkies of passage. More one day does not pass without it Drogue, which causes at his place long periods of is delirious. This experiment pushes it to write Substance dead , written in 1975, published in 1977.

He seeks on several occasions, without success, to be made intern in Psychiatric hospital, however managing to spend a few days in room of examination. Dick is perhaps paranoiac, schizophrenic, but does not present the symptoms characteristic of a hard drug addict: he is well in flesh and form physically.

The November 17th 1971, an event upsets its life. When it returns at his place, it finds “the fractured windows crashed to pieces, doors, the forced locks” and notes “the disappearance of several of businesses: one had made jump cupboard-sorter fire resistant, obviously by means of explosives of the type plastic”, sorter where it preserved all its “treasures”: texts, old pulps of its youth, various collections… At once, its paranoiac fears go back to surface: he shows in turn FBI and the KGB to want to make an attempt on his life.

Then it leaves to settle with Vancouver, which it discovered at the time of a conference of science fiction the February 12th 1972, and where it directly planned to emigrate. He tries to remake his life over there, fall several times in love girls much younger than him, who push back it each time, often taking fear in front of this left man who claims their affection. He tries then Suicide R, by taking a strong amount of tranquillizing.

He survives, and is made intern in X-Kalay, centers Désintoxication for héroïnomanes (although he did not resemble at all, as one saw before, with a drug addict of this type, nor was not really one). It discovers there the hell of the hard drug addicts, whose brain underwent irremediable lesions.

After three weeks with X-Kalay, Dick emigrates with Fullerton. It is lodged by two coeds fans of its works, and meets the writer amateur Tim Powers.

In July, it becomes acquainted with Tessa Busby, young girl reserved, who is then eighteen years old. The couple moves in and they found a hearth together. It then starts again to write.

The Europe, in particular the France, starts to be interested in him. Substance Dead is seen published during this period, as well as the final version of Coulez my tears, known as the police officer , who is nominated in 1974 for Prix Nebula and the Prix Hugo. One proposes to him to adapt do the androïdes dream of electric sheep? film .

Dick had made of its body, like writes it Emmanuel Carrère in its biography, “a shaker with chemical cocktails”. At that time, one spoke much about the flashbacks of acid, where the former drug addicts of the the Sixties had suddenly Hallucination S out of the commun run, and could be taken unexpected fatal impulses, phenomenon which made fear and fascinated average American. Perhaps that explains it the reason which pushed Philip to pour in the mystical , him which had always wanted to prove that our world was false, that there was a higher reality, and that only seemed to him to realize some.

He subscribed with sectarian reviews, lute the publications of the church of scientology, claimed to have several divine revelations, and, invited in 1977 with a conference of SF with Metz in France, made in front of an amazed crowd a very strange speech where he explained why he would have been contacted by Extra-terrestre S in March 1974 and that he maintained with them, since this date, a correspondence.

The Interpretation , enormous work, date of this time. It is about a test where all its revelations are carefully noted, and where Philip K. Dick and Horselover Fat clash, single and even character ( Philippe means in Greek “the friend of the horses” who is written in English “horse to coil”; Dick means large in German, “conceited person” in English). In several of his novels of this last period, the former president Richard Nixon, under his name (in VALIS ) or a fictitious version, appears as a malefic figure of what Dick qualifies d'" Empire" ( the Empire taken forever end is a recurring sentence in VALIS ).

It has a Cerebral vascular accident the February 18th 1982, and dies the March 2nd 1982 of a cardiac failure a few days before the exit of the film Blade Runner drawn from its novel do the androïdes dream of electric sheep? It just started to receive from them the Royalty . He is buried with Fort Morgan, at the sides of his Jane sister, without to have ever known at which point its work was going to become mythical.

In France, the daily newspaper Libération published its obituary the same day as that of another writer, Georges Perec, deceased the March 3rd. The two articles were on the two sides of the same sheet of the newspaper.

It published 36 Romance and five collections of Nouvelle S.

In 1983, one year after its death, a Literary prize is created in its homage and is baptized the Prix Memorial Philip K. Dick.

Work

All the stories of Philip K. Dick have as subjects the modification and the handling of reality. They in the news War game , Souvenir to sell , as in the novels the androïdes are particularly present do dream of electric sheep? , the penultimate truth , the god come from the centaur or Ubik .

Many are those which think that these characteristics come directly from the paranoia which marked its fragile mental health, in particular because of its drug taking (especially of the amphetamines) and of drugs. But social criticism and the cynicism of powerful which " impose a reality fictive" are also very present at his place.

It is very known to have created in its novels a dark atmosphere, thus inspiring the Cyberpunk S although it lived too early to know them. But this “glaucous” atmosphere is due in fact to the intrigue inherited the Gnosticisme which haunts the majority of the novels of Dick: the forgery, which governs this world, and that we perceive like truth, must be uncovered.

During the last years of its life, it devotes the majority of its time to write Interpretation , text monumental on its work of which only one part is published in the United States. It is resulting from the interrogations of Dick on a mystical experiment which he lived in March 1974, which is also at the origin of '' Siva '', emblematic work of the end of his life. One finds fragments of there Interpretation , inside a history which is a true setting in abyme of its own life. With his death one discovers at his place more 8  000 pages of the dialog which it maintains with itself since this experiment. An example among others: by listening to the song of the Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever , he diagnoses that his/her son is reached of a Hernie inguinale, which will be confirmed by later examinations.

There exist two French biographies on Dick:

  • Emmanuel Carrère I am alive and you died , Seuil - Points collection, 1993. Carrère approaches the life of Dick in romantic form.
  • Lawrence Sutin divine Invasions , Folio-SF, 2002. Very complete and detailed.
And a study of the writer Kim Stanley Robinson:

Quotations of Philip K. Dick

  • reality, it is what continues to exist when one ceases believing in it.

  • Our perception is limited because we have only fragmentary outlines of reality. ( At grain-time )

  • Reality is just does not have off view (" Reality is only one way of seeing the choses.")

  • Your reality is not mine. Yours is only one illusion which your perception solidified.

  • We are well in the cave of Plato. The problem, they is that the films that one us master key are rotted.

  • the science fiction is a new dimension of ourselves and an extension of our sphere of very whole reality; she does not know from this point of view any limit.

  • The BASIC tool for the handling off reality is the handling off words. Yew you edge control the meaning off words, you edge control the people who must uses the words. (" The basic tool to handle reality is the handling of the words. If one is able to control the direction of the words, one is able to control people who have with of servir").

Works

The collections published at Omnibus comprise a bibliography having 294 entries only for its works of fiction.

Novels

  • - Sagittarius Collection Consequence N°8, 1977
  • Elsewhere and tomorrow, 1976
  • - - Dimensions, 1974
  • - Dimensions, 1973
  • - I read N°613, 1975
  • - Ailleurs and Tomorrow, 1984
  • - Collection 10 18 N°2317,1992
  • - Folio junior N°573, 1989
  • Voices of asphalt (written in 1953), 2007

News

The dates of references used here are the publication dates original and not the creation dates of works. The titles of certain news having varied to the liking of the translations, they are quoted more recent with oldest.

  • July 1952
    • With the borders of space watches for the wub or the hour of the wub ( Beyond Lies the Wub )
  • September 1952
    • Canon ( The Gun )
    • the Cranium ( The Skull )
  • November 1952
    • Mini-revolt or the revolt of the toys ( The Little Movement )
  • January 1953
    • the Defenders ( The Defenders )
    • Mister the Vessel ( Mr. Spaceship )
  • February 1953
    • the Player of pipeau saw all at the bottom of wood or the player of flute ( Piper in the Woods )
    • Reug or Roug ( Roog )
  • May 1953
    • Nouveau Model or Second Variety ( Second Variety )
    • Infinite the ( The Infinites )
    • Le Monde which she wanted ( The World She Wanted )
  • June 1953
    • Colony or civil Defense or the defenders ( Colony )
    • the Lady with the cookies ( The Cookie Lady )
    • Of the clouds of Martians ( Martians As in Clouds or The Buggies )
    • the Clause of wages or the clause of the wages ( Paycheck )
    • Impostor ( Impostor )
    • the Machine to preserve or the Machine to preserve or the Machine to save the music ( The Preserving Machine )
  • July 1953
    • Poachers of cosmos ( The Cosmic Poachers or Burglar )
    • Sacrificed the or the Man sacrificed ( Expendable or He Who Waits )
    • the Untiring Frog ( The Indefatigable Frog )
    • the variable Man or the Man-variable ( Variable The Man )
  • August 1953
    • the Commuter ( To commutate )
    • In the garden ( Out in the Garden )
    • Of the eyes acrobats or At sight of eye ( The Eyes Cuts It )
    • Us them Martiens ( All we Marsmen )
  • September 1953
    • Large O ( The Great C )
    • the King of Elfes ( The King off the Elves or Shadrach Jones and the Elves )
    • the Problem of the bubbles ( The Trouble with Bubbles or Plaything )
  • October 1953
    • the impossible Planet ( The Impossible Planet or Legend )
    • Planets for hosts of passage ( Planet for Transients or The Itinerants )
    • As long as there is life… ( Nap Kinds off Life or The Beleagured )
  • December 1953
    • the Manufacturer ( The Builder )
    • Hung in the public garden or Unknown of the reverberator ( The Hanging Stranger )
    • Project: Ground ( Project: Earth or One Who Stole )
  • January 1954
    • a gift for Stalemate ( Now for Stalemate )
    • the crystal crypt ( The hook crypt or The crystal gift )
    • Behind the door ( Beyond the door )
    • the world of Jon ( Jon' S world )
    • the shoe which found shoe with its foot or the short and happy life of the shoe animated ( The shorts Happy Life off the Brown Oxford )
    • Tony and the beetles or Tony and " Bêtes" ( Tony and the Beetles (Retreat from Rigel) )
  • April 1954
    • the man gilded ( The golden delicious man )
  • May 1954
    • an eminent author ( Prominent author )
    • James P. Crow ( James P. Crow )
    • Mission of exploration ( Survey TEAM )
    • the small town or a small town ( Small town )
  • June 1954
    • Service before-purchase or Sale to excess ( Dirty pitch )
  • July 1954
    • Of wrinkled apples ( Off withered apples )
    • Breakfast in the twilight ( Breakfast At twilight )
    • the rampeurs ( The crawlers )
    • the turn of wheel or the wheel turns ( The Turning wheel )
  • August 1954
    • historical Reconstitution ( Exhibit Piece )
  • September 1954
    • In the besieged hull or the ( Shell Range )
    • Readjustment ( Adjustement TEAM )
  • October 1954
    • Interference or Key with all ( Meddler )
    • a world of talents ( has World off Talents ) in Galaxy Science Fiction
    • Souvenir ( Souvenir )
  • November 1954
    • the last the Masters ( The last off the masters )
    • Progéniture ( Progeny )
  • December 1954
    • In this low world or On the Earth without joy ( Upon the dull Earth )
    • Strange Eden ( Strange Eden )
    • the father faked ( The father-thing )
    • a fabulous vessel or the vessel hailed ( Prize ship )
  • January 1955
    • Foster, you died! ( Foster, You' Re Dead! ) in Star Science Fiction Stories n°3
  • March 1955
    • the War veteran or the veteran ( War Veteran ) in Worlds off Yew
  • April 1955 captive
    • Gone or Clientèle captivates ( Captive Market ) in If n°2
    • Nanny or Nanny ( Nanny )
  • June 1955
    • Immunité or Chasse for the caps ( Immunity or The Hood Maker )
  • July 1955
    • Where there is hygiene… or Chromium and punishment ( The Chromium Fence ) in Imagination
    • Forwarding of surface or Expédition surface of it ( has Surface raid )
    • Visite of maintenance or Service of repair or After-sales service ( Service Cal ) in Science Fiction Stories
  • August 1955
    • With the image of Yancy ( The Mold off Yancy ) in Worlds off Yew
  • November 1955
    • Autofab or the reign of the robots or Autofac ( Autofac ) in Galaxy Science external Fiction
    • Consultation or the psi and the child ( Psi-Man, Heal My Child! ) in Imaginative Bruise
  • December 1955
    • Définir human the or Human being it is… ( Human is )
  • minority January 1956
    • Report/ratio ( The Minority Carryforward ) in Fantastic Universe
  • February 1956
    • With the service of the Master ( To serf the master )
    • the hammer of Vulcan ( Vulcan' S Hammer )
  • October 1956
    • Copies nonin conformity or Pay the printer! ( Pay for the Printer ) in Satellite Science Fiction
  • January 1957
    • Machination or the M inalterable or the machine to destroy ( The Unreconstructed M ) in Science Fiction Stories
  • February 1957
    • Question of method or Be wary from/to each other ( Misadjustment ) in Science Fiction Quarterly
  • December 1958
    • Non-O ( No one-O )
  • January 1959
    • the Return explorers ( Explorers We ) in The Magazine off Fantasy & Science Fiction
  • July 1959
    • Phobia gold not phobia or To remember screen ( Recall Mechanism ) in Yew
  • September 1959
    • a dreamed prey or a beautiful catch ( Fair range )
  • December 1959
  • October 1963
    • a sinecure or the substitute ( Stand-by or Top Stand-by Job )
  • November 1963
    • That to make of Ragland Park? or Which will we make of Ragland Park? ( What' L we C with Ragland Park? )
  • December 1963
    • At the time of Headstock Stalemate ( The Days off Perky Pat )
    • If Benny Cemoli did not exist or If Cemoli did not exist ( If There Were No Benny Cemoli ) in Galaxy Science Fiction n°2
  • 1964
    • The Unteleported Man
  • January 1964
    • Orphée with the feet of clay ( Orpheus with Clay Feet ) in Escapade [references of the editions]
    • Project Argyronète ( Waterspider ) in Worlds off Yew
  • February 1964
    • a new number ( Novelty Act ) in Fantastic
    • Ah, being Gélate… or What a chance to be Blobel! ( Oh, to Be has Blobel! )
  • March 1964
    • war against Fnouls ( The War with the Fnools )
  • June 1964
    • what say deaths or the Voice come from the sky ( What the Dead Men Say ) in Worlds off Tomorrow
  • July 1964
    • Cantate 140 ( Cantata 140 )
    • Which loses gain or Jeu of bad luck ( has Range Unchance off)
  • August 1964
    • The small block box or Rented either Mercer ( The little black box )
  • October 1964
    • an invaluable artefact or an invaluable relic or Show ( Precious Artefact )
  • January 1965
    • the return of the repressed or Syndrome of withdrawal or Syndrome of retirement ( Retreat Syndrom )
  • April 1966
    • Memories to sell or Of memory of man or guaranteed Memories, reasonable prices ( We Can Remember It For You Wholesale , 1966)
  • May 1966
    • Holy war or Which attacker? ( Holy Quarrel )
  • August 1966
    • Go yesterday morning ( Your Appointment will Be Yesterday )
  • January 1967
    • the Faith of our fathers ( Faith off our Fathers )
  • February 1967
    • Return match ( Return Match )
  • July 1968
    • not to trust with the cover or From its cover ( Not by Its Cover )
  • October 1968
    • the history who puts an end to all the stories for the anthology of Harlan Ellison " Dangerous visions" ( The story to end all stories for Harlan Ellison' S anthology " Dangerous visions" )
  • October 1969
    • the electric Ant or the electronic ant ( The Electric Ant )
  • January 1974
    • a p' tit something for us, the tempnautes! or Pity for the tempnautes! ( has Little Something for Us Tempunauts )
  • October 1974
    • the pre-people or the préhumains ( The Pre-Persons )
  • October 1979
    • the exit carries out inside or the exit you fout inside ( The Exit Door Leads In )
  • May 1980
    • Chaînes of air, networks of ether ( Chains off air, Web off Aether )
  • October 1980
    • the case Rautavaara ( The Rautavaara' S Case )
  • December 1980
    • the cold voyage or the memory which came from the cold ( The Frozen Journey or I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon )
  • February 1981
    • Autremental or the foreign spirit or the Heart of the aliens ( The Alien Mind )
  • July 1984
    • Etranges memories from dead or Etranges memories from dead the or Etranges memories of in addition to-death ( Strange memories off death )
  • March 1987
    • the Eye of Sybille ( The Eye off the Sibyl )
  • May 1987
    • Cadbury, the beaver misses of it or Cadbury, the beaver with the drag ( Cadbury, the Beaver who Lacked )
    • the Day when Mr. Ordinateur lost the pedals ( The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out off its Tree )
    • a land odyssey ( has Terran Odyssey )
    • Stabilité ( Stability )
  • December 1988
    • Au-revoir, Vincent ( Goodbye, Vincent )

Other works

  • Interpretation , test.
  • the Girl with the black hair ( The Dark Haired Girl , 1988)
  • If this World displeases to you… and other writings (The Estate off Philip K. Dick, 1995, transl. france Editions of the glare) (references)
  • Dernière conversation before the stars (Discussion with Gwen Lee, 1982; transl. france Editions of the glare)
  • Ubik, the scenario ( Ubik, the Screenplay , 1974, transl. france electric sheep), script cinema

Film adaptations

Direct adaptations

After the death of Philip K. Dick, several scenarios were inspired more or less accurately by its works:

  • In 1982 leaves Blade Runner , whose scenario takes as a starting point the novel the androïdes dream of electric sheep? ( C Androids Dream off Electric Sheep? , 1968), whose title became Blade Runner following the success of film.

  • the news Memories to sell ( We Can Remember It for You Wholesale , 1966) was used as a basis for the film Total Recall (1990) of Paul Verhoeven.
  • the novel Confessions of a barjo ( Confessions off has Crap Artist , 1975) was carried to the screen by Jerome Boivin in 1992.
  • the news Nouveau model ( Second Variety , 1953) inspired the film howling Planet ( Screamers ) of Christian Duguay (1995).
  • In 2002, the news minority Report/ratio (1956) and Impostor (1953) are adapted to the cinema, respectively by Steven Spielberg under the title Minority Report and by Gary Fleder under the title Impostor .
  • the film Paycheck of John Woo (2003) is also based on a news of Dick, the Clause of the wages (1953).
  • In 2006, the dead novel Substance ( has Scanner Darkly ), was adapted to the cinema. has Scanner Darkly , carried out by Richard Linklater. The characteristic of film is that all the plans were redrawn to create a particular effect.
  • an adaptation of its news the Man gilded ( The Golden delicious Man , 1954) left in the French rooms on April 25th, 2007, with Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore. It was carried out by Lee Tamahori and is entitled Next .

Inspirations

  • Among the admirors of Dick, one finds the scenario writer Canadian David Cronenberg. Its “meeting” with the author takes place in 1984: Dino De Laurentiis, which had produced its film Dead Zone , forwards to him a scenario written by daN O' Bannon and Ronald Shusset based on the news of Dick Souvenirs to sell . Dissatisfied with the result, it decides to rewrite it and works above during a year (it writes in all twelve versions different from the history), but runs up constantly against the dissatisfaction with Shusset (also producing of film). It finally decides to leave the project, its vision of the history being too distant from that which Shusset considers. There remains however strongly interested by the work of Dick which he will discover during the following years.

  • In 1999, Cronenberg leaves its film EXistenZ , which he regards as being his “film dickien”, that containing the most topics close to work of Dick. It included besides a kind of homage in film by the means of a paper bag where is registered “Perky' S Pat”, in reference to the novel God come from the Centaur ( The Three Stigmata off Micrometer caliper Eldritch , 1965).

External bonds

French

  • Paradick the French site of reference on the work of Philip K Dick.

  • the page devoted to Philip K. DICK on the site of the cosmic Cockroach
  • Critique of Juan Asensio on the Master of the High Castle
  • audio Livre (mp3) of chapter 9 of the biography of Emmanuel Carrère
  • The Philip K. Dick Bookshelf Contains a complete illustrated bibliography of the French editions of the texts of Philip K. Dick.
  • Bibliography noted by a fan
  • PKD Otaku (Fanzine)

English

  • http://www.philipkdick.com/
  • http://www.philipkdickfans.com/
  • http://www.philipkdick.tk/
  • The Philip K. Dick Bookshelf a bibliography supplements illustrated work of Philip K. Dick.

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