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Hello and welcome to Books and Nachos, the Benganza Media podcast about everything in print. This is Stuart in L.A., your host for the Philip K. Dick book retrospective in correspondence

with the now playing podcast, Philip K. Dick book retrospective in correspondence with the now playing podcast,

Philip K. Dick movie retrospective. That's right. We're going to be reading all of the works

that inspired the Hollywood movies. And this is exciting for me because I've always had great esteem

for Philip K. Dick. He's a big science fiction author, and he's inspired lots of directors and

writers that I like, but I have never actually read the work, so you'll be experiencing my first

impressions of some of the inspirations for some great movies. We're starting out with Do

Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is the source material for Blade Runner. It's a big one for Philip K. Dick.

He was an established writer at this point.

He had been writing and published well over a decade.

And at the same time, he was in an enormous amount of debt.

He was struggling in a new marriage.

He was experimenting with LSD.

He was having religious visions and

a curious interest in religious experience. And he was living in San Francisco, heading into

the Summer of Love with the hippie pilgrimage and the war protests. All of that is going to play a factor in this novel. As I was reading it,

it felt very autobiographical, knowing what I knew about Dick. And so you're not going to find the words

Blade Runner in the novel, and I'm going to try and limit my comments about Blade Runner, the movie,

in this podcast. This podcast is specifically

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