August 17, 2006
Rare Philip K. Dick Interview
Boing Boing posted a link to a rare Philip K. Dick interview from 1977 on YouTube that was released as part of the Scanner Darkly movie hype. PKD talks about break-ins to his house by government officials, and the relative low-standing of science fiction in the literary community.
He particularly hates the “box” that SciFi was put in, in that it could only do things like space operas, or westerns set in the future, without sex, drama, etc. Clearly the cyberpunk movement of the 80s dramatically changed the rules. Since then, the entire genre has opened up. No longer are the SciFi/Fantasy shelves filled with mindless “Gonad the Barbarian” books, and literally everyone was forced to raise their game. Clearly, PKD was a precursor of this.
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August 20, 2006
Illusive Mind said:
That was a great find SFAM. I’m a huge fan of PKD, I might be able to post a review of ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ some time soon.
SFAM said:
Awesome!! We eagerly await your review Illusive Mind