PKD is one of those authors that really draws you in with his prose. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #9 | Fandomania] Reference
You have what's called PKD, which is known as polycystic kidney disease. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2009] Reference
Well, according to this New York Times story from today, PKD is still MIA. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
The only thing that intimidates me about PKD is how the literary types have embraced him after his death. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick] Reference
But if PKD is one of your heroes, you’ll probably dig it. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #7 | Fandomania] Reference
One weakness of PKD is in my eye his language. From Wordnik.com. [Mind-Shattering Novels of Philip K. Dick] Reference
To the AGW truthers like our own "PKD" the science is solved and the truth is out there. From Wordnik.com. [IAIN HALL] Reference
I guess PKD was pretty good at his craft after all. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #8 | Fandomania] Reference
However I really love PKD stuff despite any of that. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick] Reference
Owl in Daylight, a biopic of PKD, will be out in 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Like Philip K. Dick Movies? Try Jack Womack Books] Reference
It has brainwashed people into thinking PKD made sense. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference
But I don't think PKD is doing something very different. From Wordnik.com. [PKD and Style] Reference
As SF readers of our generation we were taught to by PKD. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 9: Winter’s Heart (2000)] Reference
A boatload of PKD (4-5 novels; one short story collection). From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: What SF/F/H Books Are On The Top of Your "To-Be-Read" Pile?] Reference
This is the novel in which PKD out LaSalles Emerson LaSalle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Because PKD doesn't make sense, either in his life or his writings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference
He'd lost both kidneys to PKD and was on dialysis, waiting for a donor. From Wordnik.com. [The Real National Debt] Reference
It is a cult because there are a lot of articles about PKD "everywhere". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference
Classic solipsistic SF in the classic PKD style…short, sharp and scary. From Wordnik.com. [The Cosmic Puppets | books | Futurismic] Reference
Yes, i'm over my PKD phase for the moment, back to the funny pages we go. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
For my weird mind, I would have PKD occupying the Big Cheese's chair at this table. From Wordnik.com. [SFX's Top 100 Science Fiction Authors] Reference
PKD continues to facinate me and i'm quite sure thats not going to end anytime soon. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick] Reference
A SCANNER DARKLY did a nice job of capturing the trippy vibe of the later PKD novels. From Wordnik.com. ["If you're not cop, you're little people."] Reference
PKD does it in the excerpted passage Freedman uses in a different way from Silverberg. From Wordnik.com. [PKD and Style] Reference
Thanks for the link to Lethem's PKD story; I probably wouldn't have caught it otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [A Report from the Lethem-PKD Event] Reference
I have liked most PKD stories I have read, but I have never read any of his longer stuff. From Wordnik.com. [BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » Second Variety by Philip K. Dick] Reference
For me the biggest surprise is Birthday Song - it just cries out PKD androidal weirdness!. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - anecdotes] Reference
That theory of literary SF seems pretty common, to me, among people whose touchstone is PKD. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-06-01] Reference
The best PKD sentences balance on this thin linguistic edge through the strength of single words. From Wordnik.com. [PKD and Style] Reference
And PKD is very much what I thought of, too -- particularly the effect the end of Ubik had on me. From Wordnik.com. [The Affirmation] Reference
I'll have to go searching for the PKD quote now, as I didn't realize he'd come to the same conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Caffeinated Quote for the Day] Reference
Methinks Ms. Maio is a tiny bit desperate for a good PKD film, and therefore her critical judgment has suffered. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference
Obviously this paragraph owes a lot to Darko Suvin but I think it is the core concept behind Freedman's analysis of PKD. From Wordnik.com. [PKD and Style] Reference
She laments the quality of such PKD-inspired films as Minority Report and Paycheck and calls Imposter "the genuine article". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference
That is, PKD isn't just writing clunky sentences out of revolutionary fervour, no matter how important a factor that may be. From Wordnik.com. [PKD and Style] Reference
I should also note that John Leonard, in Harper's, had a positive tone, though he mostly used his brief review to discuss PKD. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
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