If you like Philip K. Dick, Amazon Prime video now has the 10 episode series Electric Dreams on their streaming service, and they're advertising that season three of the Man in the High Castle is coming soon.
Season 1 was pretty much retelling the novel, which I've read. Now, PKD always said he would do a sequel - but never did. The story does end with a resolution which you could call a cliffhanger. I guess Season 2 and Season 3 are the sequel(s) he never wrote.
Blade Runner was also one of his novels (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), so Blade Runner 2049 which was just out is kind of the same thing. I think he died in 1982 just before Blade Runner hit the big screen.
I still think his VALIS novels are the best. So far, nobody's done anything with them except make an opera. (Really, Tod Machover.) Oh, and Radio Free Albemuth was made into so limited a release movie that I think no one ever saw it. I eventually found it and having seen it, I can see they used the production values of a junior high AV club. Oh well. That's what I'm waiting for.
His short stories are good, that's what Electric Dreams is about, Minority Report was originally a short story, but there's those novels - Ubik, Flow My Tears - well, at least there was an adaptation of Through a Scanner Darkly, which actually features a digitized Alex Jones.
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I guess I categorize Le Guin as a fantasy writer, not as a science fiction writer.
Well, she did write Left Hand of Darkness, and the other stories in that "Hainish" cycle are certainly about other planets, space travel, etc. Now, and I would concede this, some people say even those may lean more toward fantasy in the same way as Star Wars does. She was never much into "hard" sci-fi and even when she wrote what's considered that, she was more into the sociology and psychology of extraterrestrial societies ("soft" science, we might say), then hard stuff.
Of course, sometimes, some of us folks find appeal in that.
