Strange guy and somewhat inconsistent, but a conceptual genius. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is my favorite scifi novel for how thematically relevant it is to the modern human experience.
Slaughterhouse Five is amazing but only vaguely qualifies as scifi
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Not the TV series, which doesn't pull the relevant threads from the book very strongly, but the book. The book itself was written by Dick using the I Ching, which itself feels very similar to generative AI.
Jan 22, 2024
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he writes what i like to call "thoughtful sci-fi" - you could read the story that the movie arrival is based on, story of your life - another one that i liked was tower of babylon
anyway he has two books with short stories which will definitely make you think
Sep 29, 2024
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i have mentioned this collection before and likely will again... it is so imaginative and immersive and strange! i read it many years ago and need to revisit desperately!! very dimensional science fiction stories with distinct language style and masterful worldbuilding. also he coined the term "cyberspace" in the burning chrome title story. written and compiled in the 1980s
Feb 18, 2024
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The numbers..
Mar 5, 2025
Something I've been noticing a lot in any sort if discourse on art and pop culture is a shift from seeing things as art to seeing them as simply media. This essentially combines all art forms while also including other "consumable" forms of expression such as news. While this is useful to talk about their similarities (a recent post here talked about collecting physical media such as CDs or DVDs), it seems to me like it degrades art of its value. Maybe this is the result of a history of debates about what's "real" art and what's just dumb entertainment, or maybe the roots of this lay in our increasing focus on constant consumption. I think the grouping of information and art (entertainment?) is sad enough as is, but it also creates a strange link between art forms that have little in common.
Am I just misunderstanding a term here? Who knows. Here's a sun bear I named Media
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