Science Fiction

‘Next’ (2007) barely resembles PKD’s ‘Golden Man’

“Next” (2007) is one of those Philip K. Dick adaptations that comes off shallower than his source material because it’s stretched into an action movie

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‘Radio Free Albemuth’ (1985) is PKD’s first attempt at ‘VALIS’

Books about an individual being pestered by an authoritarian government are often difficult to read because of their hopeless nature, and a sense that it’s

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‘Brightburn’ turns ‘Superman’ into a gory nightmare

“The New Mutants” has been drawing buzz for a few years for being a superhero/horror mash-up, but as it’s becoming increasingly unlikely that movie will

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All 18 stories from PKD’s ‘Collected Stories, Vol. 4’ (1987), ranked

Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them

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‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ punches up Jean’s tragic fall

Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) turns into Dark Phoenix for the first time on the new timeline in “X-Men: Dark Phoenix,” but nonetheless, I’ve seen this

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First episode impressions: ‘Emergence’ (TV review)

The pilot episode of “Emergence” (Tuesdays, ABC) is a crisply crafted hour of TV that would set the stage for an excellent series in an

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‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ is an old-fashioned creature romp made with modern tools (Movie review)

In the next movie, I’d like to see Godzilla and his nemeses fight in conditions other than driving rainstorms, but even though there isn’t a

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‘A Scanner Darkly’ (2006) is the most faithful PKD adaptation

Writer-director Richard Linklater lovingly adapts “A Scanner Darkly” – Philip K. Dick’s 1977 classic about drug use and the drug war set amid a future

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All 23 stories from PKD’s ‘Collected Stories, Vol. 3’ (1987), ranked

Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them

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All 27 stories from PKD’s ‘Collected Stories, Vol. 2’ (1987), ranked

Because the five volumes of “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick” have been reprinted many times under many different names, I’m referring to them

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