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2 months ago | 
sharpenyouraxe.substack.com | Philip K. Dick |Rupert Cocke
"Love all the children: Disarming our hearts after the shootings at Sandy Hook School" by AFSC Photos is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.“Information wants to be free” - Stewart BrandIf you aren’t a journalist, you might not realise quite how seriously most mainstream media organisations take defamation. Over the course of my career as a financial journalist with international publications, spanning nearly three decades, I have attended regular in-house mandatory courses on media law.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
sharpenyouraxe.substack.com | Philip K. Dick |Rupert Cocke
"Snakes Eating Tails" by FCCA/NCSU is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.What are the risks to artificial intelligence (AI)? After generative AI (gen AI) exploded into the news with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, I ran a couple of columns on Sharpen Your Axe exploring the idea that the tech could end up destroying humanity. I now think this risk is probably a little overblown.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Cory Doctorow |Philip K. Dick
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial, it's just an overwhelming fact of life. But so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
panmacmillan.com | David Green |Karen Lord |Philip K. Dick |Jeremy Robinson
What is science fiction? 'That branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology,' according to prolific sci-fi writer, Isaac Asimov. Science fiction offers creative takes on real or speculative science and technology through its settings, themes, and plot. Is sci-fi different from fantasy?
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Gabriel Tate |Philip K. Dick |Lee Child
The Boys Season 2 Credit: Jasper Savage 1.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
theredsnail.substack.com | Philip K. Dick
“I know you know they say femininity, but what's femininity?”—L’Imperatrice, Girl!“Shortly, he was aboard a thermosealed interbuilding commute car, on his way to downtown New York City and P. P. Layouts, the great pale synthetic-cement building from which Perky Pat and all the units of her miniature world originated. The doll, he reflected, which had conquered man as man at the same time had conquered the planets of the Sol system. Perky Pat, the obsession of the colonists.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
shereads.com | Hannah Diffey |Philip K. Dick
The world of book lovers just got a whole lot more thrilling with some fantastic new updates. From a book card game to the adaptation of several beloved novels to a controversy about a recent adaptation, this roundup of book news promises to excite readers from all genres. Based upon the beloved Folk of the Air trilogy, Holly Black is running a Kickstarter campaign for a new game called Enemies & Lovers.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
fantasyliterature.com | Sandy Ferber |Philip K. Dick
Nick and the Glimmung by Philip K. DickIn his 1969 novel Galactic Pot-Healer, cult author Philip K. Dick introduced his readers to a character named Glimmung: a semidivine being who calls ceramic repairman Joe Fernwright, among others, to Plowman’s Planet (aka Sirius 5) to help raise a sunken cathedral from the oceanic depths. Confusingly described by Dick as weighing 40,000 tons and, later, 80,000 tons, Glimmung was yet a truly fascinating creation.
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May 24, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Philip K. Dick |Sylvia Bishop |David Hyde
Philip K. Dick is one of the most famous sci fi writers – could you introduce us to him? Philip K. Dick was an American science fiction writer. He was born in Chicago, when his family was on the way from Washington D.C., in 1928. He was a twin; he had a twin sister, and they both weighed just a few pounds each. It so happened that on the way out to California, Phil’s sister died, aged about six weeks.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
larevuedesressources.org | Philip K. Dick
[4] ... Pourtant, le scénario au crédit de la construction et du dynamisme filmiques peut sembler lacunaire par rapport à l’ouvrage qu’il adapte.
