To call Philip K. Dick <…> a science-fiction writer is to the underscore the inadequacy of the label. Dick <…> was fascinated by the scientific future largely as a vehicle for examining his own anxieties, longings and unstable perceptions. It would be more accurate to call him one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century.
Давид Эдельштейн, 2002
Источник: David Edelstein, "Philip K. Dick's Mind-Bending, Film-Inspiring Journeys" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E1DD1F3DF935A25755C0A9649C8B63. Arts (The New York Times). June 16, 2002.
Филип Киндред Дик: Актуальные цитаты (страница 3)
Актуальные цитаты Филип Киндред Дик · Прочитать последние цитаты
интервью «Надо привыкать к тому, что всё переменяется», 2004
Станислав Лем
Dick's fiction calls up our basic cultural assumptions, requires us to reexamine them, and points out the destructive destinations to which they are carrying us.
Патриция Уоррик, «Разум в движении: Фантастика Филипа К. Дика», 1987
Источник: Patricia S. Warrick, Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick (1987)
The worlds through which Philip Dick's characters move are subject to cancellation or revision without notice. Reality is approximately as dependable as a politician's promise.
Source: Roger Zelazny, An Introductionin to Philip Dick: Electric Shepherd (1975), ed. by Bruce Gillespie.
Роджер Желязны, предисловие к сборнику статей «Филип Дик: Электропастух», 1975
Послесловие к «Убику», 1974
Станислав Лем
«Заметки, сделанные поздней ночью одним измождённым писателем-фантастом»
письмо «Определение научной фантастики», 1975
Источник: Igor & Grichka Bogdanoff L`Effet science-fiction, a la recharche d`une definition, Editions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1979, pp. 293/296.
Источник: Определение научной фантастики https://web.archive.org/web/20050221184945/http://sf.perm.ru/definition.shtml // БОГ в сточной канаве (электронный фэнзин, посвященный Филипу Дику). — Выпуск 4 (2000 год).
That fusion of wild SF ideas, near-future scenarios and street— wise, drug-culture characters evident in late sixties, early seventies Dick, proved attractive. It accorded with what was happening in youth culture itself. Films like Videodrome (1983) and Repo Man (1984) and musicians like Gary Numan seemed to borrow direcdy from Dick's imagination. A new 'punk' SF seemed to spring up in the early eighties, with writers like Rudy Rucker, K. W. Jeter, Russell M. Griffin and William Gibson as its chief proponents.
Брайан Олдисс, «Кутёж на триллион лет»
Брайан Олдисс, «Кутёж на триллион лет»
и я — один из тех, кого она оттолкнула в наибольшей степени
Source: М. Отставнов. Другой Лем http://old.computerra.ru/offline/2001/392/8688/page3.html // Компьютерра. — 2001. — № 15 (17 апреля).
Lem is probably a composite committee rather than an individual, since he writes in several styles and sometimes reads foreign, to him, languages and sometimes does not — to gain monopoly positions of power from which they can control opinion through criticism and pedagogic essays is a threat to our whole field of science fiction and its free exchange of views and ideas. <…> I think, though, at this time, that their campaign to establish Lem himself as a major novelist and critic is losing ground; it has begun to encounter serious opposition: Lem's creative abilities now appear to have been overrated and Lem's crude, insulting and downright ignorant attacks on American science fiction and American science fiction writers went too far too fast and alienated everyone but the Party faithful (I am one of those highly alienated).
Source: Kucukalic L. Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age http://books.google.by/books?id=04HuCJF6P3IC&dq=Philip+K+Dick&hl=ru&source=gbs_navlinks_s. — New York—London: Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 2009. — P. 43
Source: Оригинал http://oper.ru/news/read.php?t=1051603852 в Тупичке Гоблина
письмо в ФБР, 2 сентября 1974
во многом Дик отзывается на эссе Лема «Science fiction: безнадёжный случай с исключениями»
Source: Станислав Лем: "Сложно удивляться тому, что мы страдаем от своего рода российского комплекса" http://www.inosmi.ru/online/20060117/224888.html (интернет-конференция) // РИА Новости, ИноСМИ.ru, 17-27 января 2006.
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