TAG: dystopian
She screams loudest: Women’s dystopian tales
Posted in Explore and Discover on June 27, 2017 at 6:00 am
by Susan Goertz For me, there is no question that dystopian author Philip K. Dick was a visionary. And interestingly, the physical appearance of his female characters tends to have a direct correlation to their level of intelligence (I’ll let you discover which way the correlation falls out). Reading his novels and stories for a […]
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Hollywood vs. novel and short story: dystopian worlds written by Philip K. Dick
Posted in Explore and Discover on April 18, 2017 at 6:00 am
By Susan Goertz Dystopian fiction seems to be enjoying a renaissance right now, at least in my life. And over the years Hollywood has kept up with the appeal, feeding our insatiable appetite for basic human struggles set against the backdrop of social, political, and environmental collapse that keep us glued to the screen. I […]
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