PKD, PDQ
September 25, 2007Funny how things run in packs. I just finished watching the film version of Philip K. Dick’s mid-1970s novel A Scanner Darkly when I came across an announcement that Jonathan Lethem, editor of the recent Library of America edition collecting PKD’s best novels from the 1960s, will be talking about all things Dickian this Thursday at Cooper Union.
And then I came across this item in GalleyCat confirming that Lethem will use the Cooper Union lecture to announce a second LoA volume, one that will straddle the 1960s and 1970s novels, including — ta da! — A Scanner Darkly.
And then I came across Glenn Kenny’s post on the umpteenth re-edit/re-release of Blade Runner, which purported to be an adaptation of PKD’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but ended up being the best backdrop for a science fiction film Hollywood has yet to produce.
Which brings us back to the film version of A Scanner Darkly, which I have held off on writing about because I had a completely unexpected reaction to the movie when it appeared in theaters, and I’ve been waiting to return to it. I’ll post that reaction sometime in the next few days, but meanwhile I have to concentrate on this little shindig at the Brooklyn Historical Society. You’re all invited to join me, you know.
