Philip K. Dick was a great mind. A defining sci-fi writer, publishing works such as “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” and “VALIS”, Dick was blessed with a very active imagination, the dream tools of a writer.To the world, Dick appeared as just a successful writer, but he suffered considerably internally. Dick lived with the loss of a twin, mental health issues, and dealt with a complicated personal life, all things he would channel into his writing. Philip K Dick was born on December 16, 1928. He had a twin sister named Jane Charlotte Dick, who died six weeks later. The death of Dick’s sister Jane would have a lasting effect on him. It would serve to establish the recurring theme of “phantom twins” in his writing. Dick also believed
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He was fixated on the idea that nothing was truly real. As written in “Philip K Dick and the Fake Humans”, Henry Farrell speaks about Philip K. Dick’s fears of reality being a simulation, and the ways in which his predictions were accurate to the reality of modern society. Dick believed that, “...we all live in a world where “spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader”(Farrell, 1). This fragmentation in the mind of Dick drove him to near insanity. By the end of his life, he had attempted suicide multiple times. Dick’s ongoing struggles with addiction may have contributed to these paranoid delusions or his paranoid delusions may have contributed to the drug …show more content…
Farrell points out that there is a scary truth in his pessimistic writings, However the scary truth of Dicks' work is that, “...we live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s. Dick was no better a prophet of technology than any science fiction writer, and was arguably worse than most” (Farrell). Dick was aware of the concepts of bots, computers designed to purchase products for people. This comes to reality on his short story “Autofac”, a story that details an autonomous factory continue to create products after the fall of humanity. Dick foresaw programs like this, and due to his realistic yet terrifying tone, he accurately predicted things that would exist in our
He was fixated on the idea that nothing was truly real. As written in “Philip K Dick and the Fake Humans”, Henry Farrell speaks about Philip K. Dick’s fears of reality being a simulation, and the ways in which his predictions were accurate to the reality of modern society. Dick believed that, “...we all live in a world where “spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader”(Farrell, 1). This fragmentation in the mind of Dick drove him to near insanity. By the end of his life, he had attempted suicide multiple times. Dick’s ongoing struggles with addiction may have contributed to these paranoid delusions or his paranoid delusions may have contributed to the drug …show more content…
Farrell points out that there is a scary truth in his pessimistic writings, However the scary truth of Dicks' work is that, “...we live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s. Dick was no better a prophet of technology than any science fiction writer, and was arguably worse than most” (Farrell). Dick was aware of the concepts of bots, computers designed to purchase products for people. This comes to reality on his short story “Autofac”, a story that details an autonomous factory continue to create products after the fall of humanity. Dick foresaw programs like this, and due to his realistic yet terrifying tone, he accurately predicted things that would exist in our