Visions of Philip K. Dick

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Philip K. Dick is best known for his fiction that have been adapted to movies and TV shows like Blade Runner, Minority Report and Man in the High Castle. He wrote about multiple realities and fantastic worlds beyond the scope of our mundane everyday lives. But he also believed that he experienced one of those alternate realities in the winter of 1974. The problem is, he couldn't figure out which paranormal experience he had. Professor Richard Doyle, author Erik Davis and playwright Victoria Stewart discuss how one of the most influential science fiction authors of all time became a character in one of his own novels.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was September of 1977.
0:04.8	The City of Metz, the northeastern France, was hosting a science fiction festival.
0:09.2	The Guest of Honor, Philip K. Dick.
0:11.5	Now, today, I mean, Philip K. Dick is considered one of the most important science fiction writers
0:16.5	ever.
0:17.5	There have been two dozen adaptations of his work.
0:20.5	Blade Runner, total recall.
0:22.5	Minority Report, scanner darkly, manly high castle.
0:26.3	There's a new show that just came out, electric dreams of Philip K. Dick.
0:30.2	But when he was alive, only hard-core science fiction readers and writers knew who he was.
0:37.2	And like a lot of American artists that were ahead of their time,
0:40.2	Philip K. Dick was appreciated first by the French.
0:43.2	In fact, he didn't think his career would have been possible if it weren't for the support of his French readers and publishers.
0:49.6	So this conference in France in 1977 meant a lot to him.
0:53.3	And the room was packed.
0:55.2	He walked in, wearing a silver button-down shirt, and a wide yellow and brown tie.
1:00.9	He had a robust beard that was white on the sides and brown in the middle,
1:05.2	making him look a little bit like Ernest Hemingway.
1:08.6	And he sat down the table and said,
1:12.2	The subject of this speech is a topic which has been discovered recently
1:20.6	and which may not exist at all.
1:22.6	I may be talking about something that does not exist.
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