Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (Of all American writers, none have got the genre-hack-to-hidden-genius treatment quite so fully as Philip K Dick, the California-raised and based science-fiction writer who, beginning in the nineteen-fifties, wrote thirty-six speed-fuelled novels, went crazy in the early seventies, and died in 1982, only fifty-three. His reputation has risen through the two parallel operations that genre writers get when they get big. First, he has become a prime inspiration for the movies, becoming for contemporary science-fiction and fantasy movies what Raymond Chandler was for film noir.
At least eight feature films, including "Total Recall," "Minority Report," "A Scanner Darkly," and, most memorably, Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner," have been adapted from Dick's books, and even more--from Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" to the "Matrix" series--owe a defining debt to his mixture of mordant comedy and wild metaphysics. ( New Yorker)
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