[HN Gopher] 2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick
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       2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick
        
       Author : xk3
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2021-12-05 17:09 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (strangehorizons.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (strangehorizons.com)
        
       | errcorrectcode wrote:
       | Spoiler alert:
       | Deckard is a replicant.
        
         | dane-pgp wrote:
         | It would have been better to rot13 that.
        
         | muterad_murilax wrote:
         | Hey, thanks for ruining the movie for me!
        
       | TruthWillHurt wrote:
       | Must it be 2049? Can't we go with 2048?
       | 
       | Makes me uncomfortable. like this {
        
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       | joemaller1 wrote:
       | That... was far better than I was expecting and somewhat
       | redemptive of BR'49. Worth the long read.
        
       | tudorw wrote:
       | having had a recent spiritual experience I have a new found
       | respect for the man who showed me what the mind can do
        
         | crate_barre wrote:
         | He was a full blown functional amphetamine addict. Some artists
         | really are something else on drugs, can't really take away all
         | the stuff he made on it.
         | 
         | Someone else can go vet this, but found this with quick
         | googling:
         | 
         |  _Afterward, according to Kyle Arnold's biography, he was
         | taking speed by the handful. "He stuffed his refrigerator with
         | thousand-pill jars of amphetamines" and "told his mother he
         | consumed a thousand-pill jar per week."_
         | 
         | There's a fine line with all of this, and he is lucky he didn't
         | enter full paranoid breakdown (that we know of). Zappos CEO
         | pretty much operated in the same way and it got his life.
         | 
         | YMMV, for real.
        
       | zabzonk wrote:
       | The article has interesting things to say about Nabakov's "Pale
       | Fire", but perhaps does not stress sufficiently that, like Dick's
       | novels, it is very, very funny (and tragic); if you haven't read
       | it (and others like "Lolita" and "Pnin" and his autobiographical
       | work, "Speak Memory"), you owe it to yourself to do so! At the
       | least, you will have some laughs.
        
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