Has anyone seen any truly good science fiction movies
lately? I’m not talking about the kind with all the special effects and
graphics. This is about science fiction that makes you think about things.
About the world; about society; about where we are headed.
One author who did this was Philip K. Dick. One of the best
science fiction writers that ever wrote. In Valis,
he created imaginary friends. The Three
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch included space travel, mass hallucination, and
global warming. Funny, considering it was written in 1965. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep also departed from the norm and
switch between reality and fantasy.
Possibly his best was Man in the High Castle, which posed
the idea of what the world would be like if the Axis powers had won World War
II.
Much of his work considered alternate realities. He made you
think of what things could be like. He made you imagine alternate realities.
Philip K. Dick made you consider the impact of artificial intelligence long
before it became something to consider.
