Tag archives for Fantasy
Ridley Scott and Philip K. Dick
Judith B. Kerman, ed. Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University…
The Nature of Dick’s Fantasies
Philip K. Dick. In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis. Ed. Lawrence Sutin. Novato, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. 277pp. $ cloth, $ paper. Philip K. Dick. The Selected Letters of…
Editorial Introduction: Postmodernism’s SF/SF’s Postmodernism.
Are we late? Are we early? Can it be we're on time? Linking postmodernism and SF is hardly a new thing; many of SF's most sophisticated commentators have been doing…
Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System
the intersection of cybernetics and phenomenology, the body already operates as an interface between mind and experience, but in contemporary science fiction and horror, the body is also narrated as…
The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway
the expansion of the technological construction of social life in the postmodern period, SF ceases to be a genre of art and becomes instead a mode of quotidian awareness. At…
In Search of Dick’s Boswell
Paul Williams. Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick. NY: Arbor House, 1986. 184pp. $ paper. Gregg Rickman. To the High Castle--Philip K. Dick: A Life, 1928-1962. Long…
The Two Faces of Philip K. Dick
the last year or so, letters of Dick's have become known indicating that his "relationship" with the FBI was not solely passive on his part, nor chiefly that of victim.…
The Portrayal of Scientists in Science Fiction
Introduction Science fiction has influenced our cultural attitudes towards science and scientists from its earliest days. Memorable characters such as Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, and Dr. Strangelove have entered the…
AI: Changing Us, Changing Them
Artificial Intelligence: the ability of computers to perform functions that normally require human intelligence. —Encarta World English Dictionary, 1999. Dr. Mark Humphrys of Dublin City University defines artificial intelligence as…
Mesoamerican Calendars
The Mesoamerican cultures of the pre-Conquest Aztecs and Maya appear dauntingly foreign to Western eyes, with their sacrificial rituals, vigesimal (base twenty) counting systems, and names like Huitzilopochtli. A few…