Lucas Blogs About Dick
DICK! Confession time: in high school and college, I was obsessed with Dick. Really? You're writing about one of your favorite writers, and you're starting it off with a dick joke? Oh, I didn't see you there, Hypothetical Reader. I thought I would handle this one on my own. What? You don't think I have anything to add to a discussion of the works of Philip K. Dick? Well, it's more that Philip K. Dick is one of those writers who looms large in my reading life so I thought that I might make this one a little more personal and a little less joke-y. I'll refer you to the first line of this post. Fair enough. Philip Kindred Dick (1928-1982) was a prolific and influential science fiction writer who published dozens of novels and over one hundred short stories in his thirty-ish year career. Outside of his writing he's probably best known for his struggles with drugs and mental illness. Inside of his writing, he's best known for intel...