This novel has always held a strange fascination for me. I have had this book in my collection for quite some time and do like to revisit it once in a while. The title alone brings up so many emotions and questions alone, even today it still feels ever so curious. First published in 1932, Brave New World is a dystopian story […]
Well, it has been a while. I guess it all comes down to work and bad time management but I really need to get back in the game, so to speak. Life is pretty funny like that, sometimes you have too much time and at other times there aren’t enough hours in the day. It […]
THE COMMUTER. DIRECTED BY TOM HARPER. WRITTEN BY PHILIP K DICK (BASED ON THE SHORT STORIES BY) STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL AS ED JACOBSON. AIR DATE 12TH JANUARY 2018 Production and design. The Commuter is so vastly different from the two previous episodes that I have watched in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. This feels a little bit more […]
Yellow Submarine: My Journey into science-fiction part 9. Release date: 17 July 1968 (United Kingdom) Director: George Dunning Released: January 1969 Story by: John Lennon, Lee Minoff Before I get started, yes, I know this is more fantasy than science-fiction, but I really love the link between Children of Men, Yellow Submarine and John Lennon in part 8. If you would […]
The Shining 1980. Release date: 7 November 1980 (United Kingdom) Director: Stanley Kubrick Film series: The Shining Story by: Stephen King Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson There is something very beautiful about the opening scene of The Shining. Once you watch it, it’s carved into your imagination forever as you watch Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) drive his car up to the Overlook Hotel. Automatically […]
IMPOSSIBLE PLANET. DIRECTED BY David Farr. WRITTEN BY PHILIP K DICK (based on the short stories by) STARRING Geraldine Chaplin as IRMA, Benedict Wong as ANDREWS and Jack Reynor as NORTON. AIR DATE 24TH JANUARY 2018. PRODUCTION AND DESIGN. As I move into the second episode of the Electric Dreams series I am pleasantly just how different this episode looks from the first previous […]
My Journey into science-fiction, Part 8 takes me from A Scanner Darkly to the 2006 film Children of Men. If you are curious to find out what connects these two films then please click the link below to find out. A Scanner Darkly. My Journey into science-fiction part 7. A Descent into Madness! Children of […]
