Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16, 1928 in Chicago, United States. He was a writer and novelist which was mainly dedicated to the genre of science fiction.
In theirs first works he wrote on topics such as sociology, politics and metaphysics, monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments and states “altered” by consciousness.
With the passing years plays they changed their thematic axis to personal interests like theology or metaphysics. He also expressed himself in writing own experiences such as drug obsession, paranoia or schizophrenia.
He has won awards such as the Hugo Award for his novel “The Man in the Castle”the John W. Campbell Memorial, the British Science Fiction Prize and the Gigamesh, among others.
Some of Philip K. Dick’s most important works were “Solar lottery”, “The Three Enigmas of Palmer Eldritch”, “Let my tears flow, said the policeman.” AND “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The best phrases of Philip K. Dick
- “Hell is cold.”
- “Fantasy is about what general opinion considers impossible: science fiction is about what general opinion considers possible under certain circumstances.”
- “It is not possible to know objectively what is possible and what is not.”
- “The truth is as terrible as death, but harder to find.”
- “The abstract was the real for them, and the real was invisible for them.”
- “If one was aware of being crazy, perhaps he was no longer crazy. Or he would start to become sane and eventually wake up.
- “The fundamental tool for manipulating reality is the manipulation of words. “If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who should use them.”
- “If I believed that the first sketch contained the whole concept, I would be a poet, not a novelist.”
- “I guess it’s not possible to live long without arousing hostility.”
- “They lived in a psychotic world. The madmen were in power. Since when? And how many noticed?”
Source: Clarin
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