It had been rumored for decades that PKD wrote a Dragonriders novel. They found it among his papers.
I have little interest in reading the Dragonriders series, but I’d pay money for this one. I hope that AMcK might develop enough of a sense of humor to let them publish this one.
This is a joke.
C’mon, “Dragonvalis”? Dragon -VALIS? What, do the dragons shoot pink lasers at people? Also, D’card? Substance T?
This is a joke.
Yeah…but a pretty literate joke at that. I’m not familiar with Anne McCaffrey, but it sounds like she writes that dragony fantasy dreck that’s popular with prepubescent boys. But it’s a perfect parody of Phillip K Dick–people addicted to a psychedelic substance that allows them to “see through” reality into a deeper reality…their dealer begins to resemble Chairman Mao…the “beam of pink light”. I especially loved how the writer captured Dick’s perpetual infatuation with the “dark-haired girl”.
Funny Shit!
Ah…but wouldn’t it be great if a lost PKD novel was found??? I was just thinking today how big of a kick he would get out of the fact that an adaption of one of his short stories was now the #1 film in America. T’is a pity Hollywood discovered PKD twenty-some years after his death! He really could have used some of the Tinsel-town cash…
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*Originally posted by Mr. Frink *
**Yeah…but a pretty literate joke at that. I’m not familiar with Anne McCaffrey, but it sounds like she writes that dragony fantasy dreck that’s popular with prepubescent boys. **
Her first few were kinda cool “lost colony rediscovering forgotten technology” stories. After that, it became Girl-and-Horsie books, only with dragons.
Fenris
Actually, Dick lived long enough to see an early cut of Bladerunner which was based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. He was reportedly very impressed by Ridley Scott’s vision of his dystopian future. Other Dick adaptations include Total Recall, Screamers and Imposter. I do find it fascinating that Dick’s brand of paranoid science fiction translates so well into mainstream Hollywood fare.
Don’t forget Barjo, which is a French movie based on Confessions of a Crap Artist.
And the just released Minority Report