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Science Fiction

Pluvious

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21. Yes, and Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harelson...

Reply to OrwellwasRight (Reply #20)

Sun Oct 19, 2025, 11:19 AM

Sunday

The story was published in '77, set in '94 - so it's easy to imagine how drugs could have run away in society lol

Reeves plays the undercover narcotics cop, and the drug is "Substance D," a synthetic that creates a type of dementia, disrupting brain synapses and severing the connection between the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

Good stuff !

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Philip K. Dick [View all] OrwellwasRight Oct 13 OP

He was a major player in the Sci Fi expansion of the 50's through the 70's patphil Oct 13 #1

There are so many Dick books. OrwellwasRight Oct 15 #11

Put Ellison on your list. Heinlein predicted the world you are living in better than anyone alive or dead. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 13 #2

I recall Heinlein's Moon Is A Harsh Mistress... Pluvious Oct 14 #6

Yes. 1966, a time when computers were rooms you walked into. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 14 #7

Ah right, only a decade off lol Pluvious Oct 14 #9

The Heinlein I read was Stranger in a Strange Land OrwellwasRight Oct 15 #13

Thanks for the recommendation! OrwellwasRight Oct 15 #10

Dangerous Visions is a collection that he edited which has one of his Bernardo de La Paz Oct 15 #12

Thanks! Nt OrwellwasRight Oct 15 #14

Your "Blech" author helped Dick -- a stranger -- when he was ill, and even loaned him money. rsdsharp Oct 13 #3

Proof that people can be great humans OrwellwasRight Oct 15 #15

PK Dick and Ellison have been my staples since high school. byronius Oct 13 #4

Thanks! Nt OrwellwasRight Oct 15 #16

If you use kindle, there's a great collection of 20 of his stories EverHopeful Oct 13 #5

I don't use kindle, but thanks. OrwellwasRight Oct 15 #17

If you can, watch the series... Pluvious Oct 14 #8

Thanks!! OrwellwasRight Oct 15 #18

I just remembered... Pluvious Oct 15 #19

Thx. Robert Downey Jr, right? OrwellwasRight Saturday #20

Yes, and Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harelson... Pluvious Sunday #21