Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
[Disclaimer: spoilers, in the second part of this post only. I’ll warn you later on up to where it is safe to read if you haven’t seen the movie yet.] The most awaited movie of the year has been out…
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The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K Dick is one of the most famous books of alternate history. In this dystopian world, Nazi Germany won the war together with Japan, and the US are divided between the…
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) is a novel by Philip K. Dick, a dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, where nuclear radiations make simple things, like the ownership of an animal, a status symbol. Androids are part of…
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