tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3494697161252038542.post5433645024162884670..comments2023-04-28T06:08:36.287-07:00Comments on Being Sufficiently: I try not to think about it...Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07550200863030353202noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3494697161252038542.post-60928298326434481142010-09-14T02:32:19.200-07:002010-09-14T02:32:19.200-07:00Apropos of PKD:
When I was working at the confere...Apropos of PKD:<br /><br />When I was working at the conference, I had to commute into Bristol, so I had a lot of time sitting on buses. I took the opportunity to reread <i>The Man in the High Castle</i> and <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i><br /><br />It got me thinking how the Dick novel is so much better than the <i>Bladerunner</i> movie. I don't usually make the 'oh, the novel was so much better than the movie ... ' claim, but in this case I think it <i>really was</i>. The movie might be a good sci-fi action flick, but everything that is characteristic of PKD is utterly missing: the most obvious case is the title! The title 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' becomes entirely puzzling if you apply it to the film, because that whole layer of the novel is missing. Some of the more 'radically'-PKD themes are missing too, IIRC, such as Mercerism and the quasi-hallucinogenic descent into the Tomb World ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com