They’re concerned because he hasn’t said anything for a while, which we do have a time designation of “since we turned on the TV”, which has been for a few pages. I don’t see the issue.

I can see that about some of the more trippy works like Valis, but Androids is pretty clear throughout. This is pretty late into the book but Isidore’s world collapsing around him could not be clearer: https://www.8novels.net/classics/u6304_54.html
Or here as he starts killing them off: https://www.8novels.net/classics/…

I think that’s a stretch. Whatever you can say about animals and other people, they weren’t created. They are not artificial. I don’t think it is a metaphor either. This isn’t the X-Men with homophobia and racism. They are supposed to be other.

That feels convenient. Also doesn’t that deny their humanity if they are only human at the imminent moment of death?

I don’t understand why we’re having interviews with people from Teen Mom. I’ve never read an article on this site about Teen Mom and it’s virtues. There are plenty of reality TV shows that get AV Club love like Survivor and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Why this one?

Wasn’t the Forensic Science part super important? “Trump is racist” is something we all knew anyway, no need to write yet another AV Club article about it. But the Forensic Science stuff was really interesting, potentially new to some people, and really important for our criminal justice system.

That’s vague nonsense. You can’t just say that “looking at them critically makes them poor writers”. I’m not even talking about enjoyment. I think Dick writes well. Admittedly, I have not backed up my argument with evidence, but that’s because I’m not sure how to phrase it or if it’s even possible. It might all be…

It makes it seem random either way. Why kill Sebastian but save Deckard? Sebastian wasn’t a threat to his self-preservation.

See but the second question seems pointless. You can’t ask if there is a substantial difference between something that does exist and something that doesn’t exist. We don’t have artificial humans, so the question of what makes them human doesn’t quite work. If you went from human to something more robotic, you could…

What? Dick was a great writer. His prose is fantastic. I have no idea what you mean.

Well written. At the risk of exposing myself for the poor writer I am, I wrote a much longer and poorer version of this a couple of years ago, which you can read here if anyone is interested: http://noiselesschatter.com/2015/11/30/fiction-into-film-blade-runner-1968-1982/

I pretty much agree that the film is more…

It helps that I’m European. My parents read those when they were kids and they are still super popular in Europe. And yeah, we didn’t have The Man in the Iron Mask in Bulgarian when I was growing up, and now I feel like I’d read to everything over again in English so that’ll take a while.

I know about the memoirs, and I also know he based some of the stories on his father, but it’s all such a mix that it leans very heavily on the side of fiction.

I think I’ve read the first 3 of 4 books in the Musketeers books. Those are fantastic. I love the way he plays with the characters in the sequels. They truly feel worthwhile, and since he puts all of this historical fiction on the outskirts of it, it also always has this feeling of perhaps having taken place. He…

Nope. His frog is a machine, but he himself isn’t. He’s still human.

I’m confused on your point. I know the book and the movie are different, but the idea that Dick would approve of a change that does the exact opposite of what his book was doing is absurd. I never made a point on which was better. All I said was Dick would not be in favor of this as it is completely not what he was…

I’m aware. Did you see the comment I was replying to?

Absolutely not. The book was 100% clear that he wasn’t an android, and for that matter the book was 100% clear that the androids lack empathy and are completely inhuman. There as none of that “if they look like us and feel like us are they human too?” bullshit that every robot film does. Dick put an insurmountable gap…

I enjoyed Snow Crash way more than Neuromancer so this sounds awesome.

Yeah, but he mocked in the best way, through love. It’s like how Galaxy Quest is a great Star Trek film. It’s not a Scary Movie type wherein it just goes through the tropes, but it really takes its time to set up a context and world and populate it with characters we want to spend time with, like the Mafia.