Philip K. Dick
#1
Posted 20 March 2008 - 15:34
Och hur är Philip K Dicks stil? Alltså är det humor, äventyr eller vad är det?
Så i korthet vilken bok ska man börja med och hur är hans böcker skrivna?
#2
Posted 20 March 2008 - 15:46
Det finns en fin sida med fakta om hans böcker via Fantastic Fiction som du kan kolla in.
Själv har jag inte läst sådär jättemycket av honom men det jag har läst är riktigt bra. Både roligt på sina ställen, spännande och med en hel del samhällskommentarer/kritik till exempel. Jag vet inte om man verkligen behöver börja med en viss bok utan det är väl mer en fråga om personlig smak.
Själv har jag läst:
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Ubik (1969)
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
VALIS (1981)
Samtliga dom kan jag varmt rekommendera.
På tur för min egen del ligger:
Time Out of Joint (1959)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)
Plus några noveller:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Imposter (1953)
The Minority Report (1956)
Jag är öppen för att läsa mer efter detta.
Edited by Cartman, 20 March 2008 - 15:50.
#3
Posted 22 March 2008 - 22:08
Plus några noveller:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Imposter (1953)
The Minority Report (1956)
Woah. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? är en roman, inte en novell.
Tja, hur definierar man Philip K. Dick? Ett bitvis surrealistiskt science fiction-sökande? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? är en dystopisk roman, en av de bästa skildringarna av gränsen mellan människa och robot. The Man in the High Castle är en alternativhistorisk roman där en (än mer) isolationistisk amerikansk politik under andra världskriget ledde till att axelmakterna vann. A Scanner Darkly är en rätt paranoid bok som på vissa sätt liknar den senare cyberpunken. Jag tycker definitivt att du skall läsa Dick. En av mina absolut favoriter bland science fiction-författare. De tre nämnda romanerna är väl de jag rekommenderar framför allt.
#4
Posted 22 March 2008 - 23:23
Fyra av hans mest kända romaner (The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? och Ubik) finns också utgivna i en samlingsvolym kallad Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (Library of America).
#5
Posted 23 March 2008 - 11:48
#6
Posted 25 March 2008 - 15:15
Plus några noveller:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Imposter (1953)
The Minority Report (1956)
Woah. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? är en roman, inte en novell.
-Nä, jag är ingen expert på området.
#7
Posted 26 March 2008 - 15:18
Så nu får jag se ifall jag gillar hans stil.
Men det jag läst hittills verkar lovande iallafall.
#8
Posted 18 November 2008 - 21:45
Stilmässigt är Dicks historier ofta paranoida, smått cyniska och med en lagom dos svart humor. Verklighetens natur, paranoia och förtryckande/fängslande system är vanliga teman i hans romaner. Protagonisterna är ofta "vanligt folk" med dåligt betalada arbeten, rätt vanliga problem eller ännu längre ned på samhällsskalan, med andra ord rätt långt ifrån de "Heinleinska" hjältarna. Mot slutet av hans karriär (ung. andra halvan av 70-talet till 82) finns en tydlig religiös (gnostiskt) tråd i hans böcker.
Hoppas detta kan vara till någon hjälp.
//
Taverner
#9
Posted 21 November 2008 - 09:25
Det finns helt enkelt ingen annan med lika många udda idéer som den gode Philip K hade.
#10
Posted 18 February 2009 - 12:03
guardian.co.uk
Widow self-publishes recreation of Philip K Dick's final novel.
Philip K Dick's last wife has reworked the novel the legendary science fiction author was working on when he died in 1982.
Tessa Dick, who described her self-publication of The Owl in Daylight as a tribute to her former husband, was Dick's fifth and final wife, marrying him in 1973.
She told online magazine the Self-Publishing Review that her version of the novel was an attempt to express "the spirit" of Dick's proposed book. Little is known about the novel, which Dick mentioned in a letter to his editor and agent. According to Tessa, the letter revealed plans to "have a great scientist design and build a computer system and then get trapped in its virtual reality. The computer would be so advanced that it developed human-like intelligence and rebelled against its frivolous purpose of managing a theme park". The letter also mentioned Dante's Inferno and the Faust legend, she said.
In Tessa's version, which she said was "loosely based" on Dick's life, third-rate composer Arthur Grimley learns that the universe is made of music. "By travelling through Dante's Inferno and Mozart's Magic Flute, he enriches his soul with the secrets of the ages," she wrote on her blog, It's a Philip K Dick World. "Meanwhile, a secret organisation is working against those who would enlighten humanity."
She was forced to self-publish The Owl in Daylight through CreateSpace after failing to find a mainstream publisher. "I have tried submitting my novels to traditional publishers, but lately they haven't shown much interest," she said to SPR. "The Owl in Daylight is my tribute to my husband. I attempted to recreate the masterpiece that he had in mind, even though he left few clues about the story. As with VALIS and other later works, the plot loosely follows his own life. I hope that I have captured the spirit of the Owl as Phil would have written it, if his life had not been cut short by a massive stroke."
She added that sometimes she did feel that Dick was communicating with her from beyond the grave, "but that concept is too spooky for me to accept completely. It's probably just that I knew him so well that I can think the way he did".
Meanwhile a biopic of Dick – also entitled The Owl in Daylight – is in the works, and set to star Paul Giamatti. The movie will weave elements of Dick's fiction, including the unfinished novel, into the story of his life.
#11
Posted 25 May 2009 - 18:03
Do androids dream of electric sheap.
Han har gjort så mycket bra...
#12
Posted 01 July 2009 - 01:23
Men en novell fick mig att tänka på en sak, han skrev om det här så kallade Half-life som han även berättade om i Ubik, är många av novellerna placerade i den världen?
Hmm, utspelar sig alla noveller i samma universum eller kan det vara olika från novell till novell(eller bok),?
#13
Posted 06 March 2013 - 15:46
Bakhåll har börjat att ge ut PKD i svensk översättning. Den första boken var Blade Runner (original: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) som gavs ut i juni 2012 och som följdes av Ubik som gavs ut nu i februari. Riktigt trevligt att ett förlag vågar och vill ge ut en så bra författares alster.
#14
Posted 06 March 2013 - 15:56
Den bok jag är riktigt sugen på att lyssna om/med Dick på är den här:
http://www.audible.c...62581737&sr=1-3
Lång, verkar rätt så surrealistisk och myko...
Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this is the definitive presentation of Dick’s brilliant, and epic, work.
In the Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called “2-3-74”, a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe “transformed into information”. In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, in a freewheeling voice that ranges through personal confession, esoteric scholarship, dream accounts, and fictional fugues, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit.
This volume, the culmination of many years of transcription and archival research, has been annotated by the editors and by a unique group of writers and scholars chosen to offer a range of views into one of the most improbable and mind-altering manuscripts ever brought to light.
//Peak
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#15
Posted 06 March 2013 - 16:07



