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Philip Kindred Dick bol americký spisovateľ sci-fi.

Svojím ojedinelým štýlom písania si získal miesto medzi kultovými spisovateľmi aj popularitu u kritikov a v akademických kruhoch, hoci spočiatku o jeho diela bol len minimálny záujem a Dick žil v chudobe. Jeho dielo, ktorého hlavnou témou je premenlivosť a nespoľahlivosť reality, bolo ovplyvnené braním drog a v neskorších rokoch aj psychickými poruchami.

Dick písal svoje poviedky z nutnosti, keď nemal žiaden iný príjem, iba uverejňovanie sci-fi poviedok v rôznych časopisoch. Počas života bolo jeho dielo neprávom prehliadané. Preslávil sa až posmrtne sfilmovaním jeho románu Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, ktorý bol sfilmovaný pod názvom Blade Runner, pod ktorým je známy aj román.

Svoju prvú poviedku napísal v roku 1951. Toto jeho obdobie bolo veľmi plodné, napísal skoro 80 poviedok. Jeho prvý science fiction román Slnečná lotéria napísal roku 1955. Potom nastalo obdobie, v ktorom písal romány zo súčasnosti. Po kritike americkej vlády dobrovoľne opustil Spojené štáty do Kanady. Zomrel roku 1982 na infarkt. Dickova tvorba je pomerne často námetom filmárov, väčšinou však ide o volné adaptácie poviedok. Paradoxom je, že sám Dick nenávidel Hollywood a nikdy nechcel mať s ním nič spoločné.

Vo svojich poviedkach obrazne opisuje spoločnosť ako niečo, čo „vymýva naše mozgy“, pretože práve taký názor mal na vtedajšiu vládu. V poviedkach vystupujú záporní hrdinovia, ktorí si podmaňujú nič netušiacich ľudí, ktorí im bezhlavo veria. Hlavnými témami jeho diela je premenlivosť a nespoľahlivosť reality. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. december 1928 – 2. marec 1982
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“You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."

"How could there have been stories about space travel before --"

"The writers," Pris said, "made it up.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy… fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

Zdroj: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Zdroj: VALIS
Kontext: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'

“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”

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Philip K. Dick

“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

Zdroj: VALIS

“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”

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Philip K. Dick Radio Free Albemuth

Zdroj: Radio Free Albemuth

“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

Zdroj: VALIS

“So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.”

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Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Zdroj: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

“No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Galactic Pot-Healer

Zdroj: Galactic Pot-Healer

“To live is to be hunted.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Varianta: To live is to be hunted.
Zdroj: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 27 (p. 213)
Zdroj: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Counter-Clock World

Zdroj: Counter-Clock World

“You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it… But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J. R. Isidore”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Fish cannot carry guns.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

Zdroj: VALIS (1981)

“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

VALIS (1981)
Kontext: For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.

“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”
Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)

“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over, maimed, destroyed—but they continued to play anyhow.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

Author’s Note (p. 276)
Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly (1977)

“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly

“He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Ubik

Zdroj: Ubik

“Emigrate or Degenerate.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly

“On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle

“The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Zdroj: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

“Science Fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”

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Philip K. Dick

"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)

“I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb

Zdroj: Dr. Bloodmoney

“Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'

'Will you be all right?'

'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. … I must be scientific.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Kontext: When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.... I must be scientific.

“There is evil! It's actual, like cement.

I can't believe it. I can't stand it.

Evil is not a view… it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle

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