Philip Dick

Alice Cherubini & Carlotta Conti 5°D

Life !   December 1928, Chicago – 1982 Santa Ana

!   Chicago à Berkeley

!   Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California

!   University of California, Berkeley

!   1952 à Published author.

!   5 wife and 3 children

!   36 novels and 5 short stories collection

Pen names

Richard Phillipps Jack Dowland

“Some Kinds of Life” “Orpheus with Clay Feet”

Themes Interests Theology

Metaphysics

Explored Sociological

Political

Metaphysical

Themes

Later Works Drug abuse

Paranoia

Schizophrenia

Trascendental experiences

Works !   1955 --> Solar Lottery

!   1962 --> The Man in the High Castle

!   1969 --> UBIK

!   1956 --> The Minority Report

!   1959 --> Time Out of Joint

Works !   1964 --> Martian Time - Slip

!   1965 --> The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

!   1968 --> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

!   1974 --> Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

!   1980 --> VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)

Success !   1963 --> Hugo Awards --> The Man In The High Castle

!   ‘70s --> science fiction community

! Fictions --> movies

!   Success --> posthumously

!   Career --> poverty

! Twenty first century --> interest

Blade Runner

Total Recall

A Scanner Darkly

Influence !   Writers

! Filmmakers

! Philosophers

! Musicans

! Literal-artistic genre

Jonathan Lethem

Ursula K. Le Guin

Wachowski brothers

Richard Kelly

Christopher Nolan

Cybernpunk

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Plot !   Set in a post - apocalyptic future nuclear war.

!   Rick Deckard bounty hunter.

! Jhon Isidore helps androids.

Themes

! Empathy

! Irony

! Mercerism

!   Real VS Unreal

Differences between the book and the movie (Blade Runner) ! Setting and time.

! Not a blade runner but a bounty hunter.

! Eldon Tyrell Eldon Rosen.

! Different focus.

! Different Rick’s main issue.

! Lack of main themes in the movie.

Bibliography ! http://www.egs.edu/library/philip-k-dick/biography/

! http://www.philipkdickfans.com/biography/

! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick

! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001140/bio

! http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ousfg/misc/pkd.html

! http://www.steppa.net/html/fanta/PhilipDick.htm

! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F

! http://litinawiredworld.wikia.com/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F

! http://www.mybladerunner.com/faqs/1-4-differences-between-the-book-dadoes-and-the-movie-blade-runner/