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coffeesp00ns  ·  2519 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sci-fi club no. 33: Blade Runner discussion

I feel like I read a quote somewhere that Phillip K. Dick was high on speed writing a lot of his fiction because he needed to pump out books to support a family. It... might explain a lot.

I've been trying to find the quote - Can't seem to, but I have found a lot of information about Dick and his relationship with drugs, which doesn't seem to have been a good one, on the whole. I mean, most people take drugs because they have a hard time dealing with their shit, and the shit they see in the real world. It makes sense that, if Dick saw the world the way he often described it in his fiction, that he'd want to check out.