The Hanging StrangerWritten by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “The Hanging Stranger” is a Scifi, horror, short story written by Philip K. Dick and first published in 1953. This short story can be found in “The Collected Stories Of Philip K. Dick” or “Second Variety and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick” and it was reprinted…
Retreat SyndromeWritten by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “Retreat Syndrome” is a short story written by the late great Philip K. Dick. This is an interesting Scifi story published in publications in World of Tomorrow, The Preserving Machine and a few others. This story has several themes we often see in PKD stories. Retreat Syndrome Philip K….
Service CallWritten by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “Service Call” is a scifi, short story written by the legend himself, Philip K. Dick. It was first published in 1955 with “Science Fiction Stories”, an popular American Scifi magazine of the time. This is one of his lesser known works partly because it was a short story, partly…
The Impossible PlanetWritten by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “The Impossible Planet” is a Scifi, short story written by the master of the Scifi genre, the man himself, Phillip K. Dick. It was first published in 1953 and has been reprinted dozens of times and influenced so many stories in the Scifi genre. This type of story…
Technology And InnovationsJohn Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com Technology is often the litmus test for innovation. In all story genres the people with the better technology are often portrayed as the more powerful, often more righteous and more advanced societies. But that is not always the case. Think of a story where the group with the better technology are…
Paycheckreleased 2003www.ink2quill.com “Paycheck” is an American, scifi, action, thriller produced by Stratton Leopold, David Solomon, Caroline Macaulay, Arthur Anderson, Terence Chang, John Davis, Michael Hackett and John Woo who also directed it. The screenplay was written by Dean Georgaris and is inspired by the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name. The film…
The SkullWritten by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “The Skull” is a scifi, short story written by Philip K. Dick that was first published in 1952 and then subsequently published several times after in various publications. Some put it in the category of speculative fiction and it can be found online at various free websites like the…
Minority ReportWritten by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “Minority Report” is a scifi novella written by the American scifi great Philip K. Dick. It was published in 1956 and was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg in 2002. It remains one of the most well known stories dealing with the use of predictive technologies to fight…
The Three Stigmata Of Palmer EldritchWritten by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch” is a environmental dystopian, scifi novel written by the American scifi, and giant in the scifi genre of literature, author Philip K. Dick. It has won many prestigious awards and has also received criticism from some of the top…
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?Written by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” is a post apocalyptic, dystopian, scifi, bounty hunter novel written by the great Philip K. Dick. It has inspired the scifi masterpiece “Blade Runner”, which is a very different story but almost alike. It was a Nebula Award nominee…