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From Philip K. Dick's first sale of a story entitled "Roog" to Anthony Boucher of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1952 and his first published story, "Beyond Lies the Wub" in Planet Stories in the same year (both collected in The Best of P...

The fictional worlds of Philip K. Dick are populated by strange creatures and situations: men with enormous steel teeth, private detectives who own electric animals, self-governing insane asylums. It is from these bizarre places that Dick allows himself...

Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, from his own screenplay, based on the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick, is rendered in the same rotoscoping process that Mr. Linklater employed in Waking Life (2001). It’s a means of expression resembling the eye-popping, hyper-android school of Japanese...

Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, from his own screenplay, based on the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick, is rendered in the same rotoscoping process that Mr. Linklater employed in Waking Life (2001). It’s a means of expression resembling the eye-popping, hyper-android school of Japanese...

The Internet campaign that created buzz for the quirky horror flick "Snakes on a Plane" months before it hit theaters is up for a special award given to honor those who market films and DVDs.The Key Art Awards, which have traditionally honored such time-tested marketing...

The tagline for Disney's upcoming "Enchanted" could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: "The real world and the animated world collide."Not simply colliding in the slapstick tradition of 1988's pioneering "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?," but in the more fundamental sense of...

Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly begins as a standard American nightmare. It is California, 1994, and society is divided between the straights in their fortified apartment complexes, and the acid-heads who are hooked on a new drug of unknown origin, substance D (for Death). Most of the detritus of the 1970s survives unchanged but surveillance technology has been advanced by the invention of the "scramble suit", which reduces the appearance of the wearer to a nebulous blur, and is compu...

[A Scanner Darkly] treats one of the major problems of our society today, namely drug abuse, but is written as science fiction set in the near future. I wish the author had treated his main theme with realism, describing the situations and events more accurately, but instead everything tends to be vague and uncertain…. Unfortunately the things are described so vaguely that the situation gets quite illogical. I suppose the license of the science fiction writer allows him to present the ideas ambiguous...