Philip K. Dick

...science fiction city," adds the author, who grew up in Brooklyn obsessed by comics, punk, Jean-Luc Godard, graffiti and Philip K. Dick. And New York. "It was founded on unreality and projection and dream and possibilities and it's fuelled by...

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...person to gain much-needed objectivity." As it happens, "Horselover" is what the name Philip means, and "dick" in German means "fat." "Philip Dick" means "Horselover Fat." Of course, Dick, as narrator, refers to himself in the first...

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...automatons four years ago, opting instead for spread-option freewheelers like Alex Smith. Rodgers abandoned Asimov for Philip K. Dick: like Roy Batty in "Blade Runner," he rejected his programming. Rodgers is now the dangerous loose...

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...of Outdoor Arts, the centerpiece is a literal interpretation of the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. The event runs on various dates through Jan. 3. 5-9 p.m. Hudson Gardens and Event Center, 6115 S. Santa Fe...

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...morning of sprinting through Manhattan streets in the pouring rain for The Adjustment Bureau, a romantic thriller based on a Philip K Dick story. a ¢ Picture: AFP The last set-up of the morning calls for Damon, wearing a pork-pie hat,...

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...experience. MOVIE REVIEW: 'Next' is bag of cheap tricks You start with a short story by one of the true sci-fi masters, Philip K. Dick, with an intriguing premise about a guy who can see into his own future and anticipate all possible...

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...heights of a Tom Cruise tentpole picture (Mission: Impossible II), and finally bottomed out in 2003 with the fittingly titled Philip K. Dick adaptation Paycheck. The John Woo who made that movie seemed spiritually broken and creatively...

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...reverberations of familiar mythic characters: Frankenstein, Pinocchio and Jesus. Plus the old Philip K. Dick premise of a man who doesn't know he's a cyborg, that Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg borrowed for A.I.: Artificial...

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...Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, meanwhile, was just classified as "bizarre." Some students, meanwhile, have managed to fool the machines, which experts are calling "schmoozing the computer." A Phillip K. Dick book title if ever I've heard one.

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...shot of it. He's more than capable of producing excellent genre fare featuring big name stars, as he proved with the pitch-perfect Philip K Dick science-fiction tale Minority Report (starring Tom Cruise) in 2002. Actors seem to raise their...

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