Philip K. Dick – Callum McSorley

Pulp 2 influences: Philip K Dick

November 5, 2017

If you’ve not read him then you’ve at least seen a film adapted from one of his stories. From classics of cinema like Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) to big budget summer blockbusters like Minority Report and schlocky B-movies like Screamers (Second Variety), there’s shelf-loads of sci fi films based on the … More Pulp 2 influences: Philip K Dick

Pulp! Influences: William Gibson

August 4, 2016

“The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.” This is one of my favourite opening sentences and comes from, possibly, my favourite sci-fi novel, William Gibson’s Neuromancer. With its release in 1984 Gibson near single-handedly created the cyber-punk genre and many writers and filmmakers have cribbed from it … More Pulp! Influences: William Gibson