# Amazing Collaborations: Philip K. Dick and Anne McCaffrey **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-collaborations-philip-k-dick-and-anne-mccaffrey/115799 "2002-06-25T00:41:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-collaborations-philip-k-dick-and-anne-mccaffrey/115799/1 "2002-06-25T00:41:37Z")
It had been rumored for decades that PKD wrote a Dragonriders novel. [They found it among his papers.](http://www.revolutionsf.com/article/1211.html) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Avumede](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/avumede/32/7235_2.png) [@Avumede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avumede)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-collaborations-philip-k-dick-and-anne-mccaffrey/115799/2 "2002-06-25T02:55:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Frink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-collaborations-philip-k-dick-and-anne-mccaffrey/115799/3 "2002-06-25T05:10:24Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-collaborations-philip-k-dick-and-anne-mccaffrey/115799/4 "2002-06-25T12:24:44Z")
[QUOTE] \*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 ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-collaborations-philip-k-dick-and-anne-mccaffrey/115799/5 "2002-06-25T14:00:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Frink \* > \*\* T’is a pity Hollywood discovered PKD twenty-some years after his death! He really could have used some of the Tinsel-town cash… \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-collaborations-philip-k-dick-and-anne-mccaffrey/115799/6 "2002-06-25T14:56:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hodge \* > \*\* 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_. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-collaborations-philip-k-dick-and-anne-mccaffrey/115799/7 "2002-06-25T15:32:58Z")
And the just released _Minority Report_