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  • adjective Of or pertaining to American novelist Philip K. Dick or his works.

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Examples

  • One might imagine that Gnostic Aslan as a weaker paraclete, one whose abandonment of Narnia is only the necessary relocation of a limited force of light called away to battle evil on another front, a Phildickian saviour-in-hiding who “must invade reality in order to redeem it”.

    Thoughts on Narnia Hal Duncan 2009

  • We have an elevator at the office here and in the elevator is a “service” that goes by the very Phildickian name The Captivate Network.

    Sushi! In! Spaaaaaaace! « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010

  • One might imagine that Gnostic Aslan as a weaker paraclete, one whose abandonment of Narnia is only the necessary relocation of a limited force of light called away to battle evil on another front, a Phildickian saviour-in-hiding who “must invade reality in order to redeem it”.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • It's a wild speculation in so far as it makes the whole kit and caboodle as malleable as a Phildickian consensus reality ... but that's why I dig the idea.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • It's a wild speculation in so far as it makes the whole kit and caboodle as malleable as a Phildickian consensus reality ... but that's why I dig the idea.

    Once More Into The Fray Hal Duncan 2007

  • Metaphor or mysticism, we live in a Phildickian world.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007

  • Certain characters are so identifiably Phildickian that Dick himself wrote A Maze Of Death as a deliberate attempt to kill them off, to widen his range.

    What Is Style? Hal Duncan 2005

  • Certain characters are so identifiably Phildickian that Dick himself wrote A Maze Of Death as a deliberate attempt to kill them off, to widen his range.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Hal Duncan 2005

  • Daft science fantasy and almost beyond Phildickian.

    EP031: Robots and Falling Hearts 2005

  • But the film never really moves into the nightmare Phildickian fable territory that seems available to it.

    Movie City News 2010

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