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 ...
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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 St...
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Critical Essay by Riaz Hussain
[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...
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Critical Essay by Patrick Parrinder
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 for...
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Teaching A Scanner Darkly
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A Scanner Darkly Lesson Plans contain 105 pages of teaching material, including:
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 Lif...
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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 Lif...
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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 Ke...
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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 traditi...
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Philip K. Dick
Philip K(indred) Dick
Critical Essay by Riaz Hussain
Linklater\'d5s A Scanner Darkly Finds Slackers of the Future
