Articles related to "Philip K Dick"

Suite101 recently fired six questions at bestselling SF author Sean Williams about political policy, favourite books what he's currently working on.

The BBC's five-part, high-concept thriller pits incredulous detectives against images that seem to foretell future mayhem and death.

My assessment: "Director Linklater could have done so much more with Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly."

Director Alex Proyas discusses the inspiration for the new film which stars Nicolas Cage, as a man faced with information which may announce the end of the world.

American Earth is comprised of essays, excerpts, poems, song lyrics,classic cartoons, color photos and a chronology of the American environmental movement.

Science Fiction from Kate Wilhelm, Nancy Kress, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Brian Stableford, Damien Broderick, Chris Beckett, Robert Reed, Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick

When Blade Runner was first released (1982), it failed at the box office, but has since risen to become a classic and one of the most influential movies of all time: Why?

A faithful adaptation of the source material can lead to problems of fidelity and redundancy. These problems can be solved by interpretation rather than transposition.

The SFWA's choice has classics by Harlan Ellison, Samuel R. Delany and Fritz Leiber; Anne McCaffrey's first ever Pern visit and Michael Moorcock's definitive Easter story

Released July 1, the premiere issue of this four-parter finds Pixar's beloved fish characters trying to save their habitat.

Fiction by Will McIntosh, Sarah Thomas, Genevieve Williams and Will Ludwigsen; reviews by John Clute and Bruce Sterling;poetry by Joanne Merriam, Robert Borski and others

The Road is a well respected piece of literature, with a 2007 Pulitzer under its belt. But this piece of high art can also be read as genre fiction.

If you think that s-f is a silly boys' genre all about star-ships and robots battling in space, think again: and use this selection for the unconverted as a guide.

The AFI's 2007 updated list of top 100 American films has nearly two dozen great films that were not nominated for best picture Oscars. Here are a few.

There are many lists of "best" science fiction novel lists, but most are compiled by popularity which doesn't always take some "classic" tales into account.

A worldview - philosophy or religious beliefs that you view the world through - can't help but shape your fiction. What's the role of a worldview in writing fiction?

When it comes to reading mythical language or deciphering the meaning of myth, Roland Barthes postulates three categories of thought, avenues of analysis.

In summing up Cold Souls, it'd be far too easy to cheekily refer to the film as Being Paul Giamatti or Eternal Sunshine of the Soulless Mind (sorry, couldn't resist).

It's sort of sad to refer to Moon as a throwback, but Duncan Jones's feature debut is just that.

Gregory Frost talks about interstitial fiction, the style of a writer and justifiable homicide.

Improving on "T3" with an involving intensity akin to "T2," this mammoth movie maintains momentum in action and plot and shows Sam Worthington might be bigger than Bale.

An index to the complete list of Hugo & Nubula Award winning novels and collections of award winning short fiction from 1946 to the present day, by author and title.

Though more than twenty-five years have passed since its initial theatrical release, Ridley Scott's science fiction masterpiece continues to reveal layers of meaning.

Some of the best science fiction movies of all time are birthed by ingenious sci-fi novels. Here are the top five sci-fi films spawned from books.

The narrative possibilities wane more than they wax, but "Moon" is a modestly engrossing puzzle-box thriller anchored by a multifaceted performance from Sam Rockwell.