第148页 Philip K. Dick

Philp K Dick was born out of his time. One of the most significant sceince fiction writers pf the 20th century, he was also a complex and hugely troubled individual who spent most of his career in near-poverty, yearning for the mainstream recognition that he was destined to receuve only after his death.
迪克生不逢时。20世纪最伟大的科幻作家之一，他一生却贫困潦倒，渴望得到主流文学的认可。但直到他死后，这一荣誉才姗姗来迟。
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On the surface, Dick's writing had all the covnentional ingredients of 1950s's science fiction - robuts, spaceships and atomic technology - but he gradually found ways of subverting the usual conventions. Using SF as a place to work out his own problems - philosophical as well as emothinal - he successfully captures the Cold War paranoia of the times and twith it a cult following.
表面上，迪克的作品包含五十年代科幻的全部元素 ——机器人、宇宙飞船和电子科技——但他慢慢地远离了这一传统。以科幻为媒介，迪克尝试解决自己心中的难题——哲学的和情感的——他成功地抓住了冷战时期那种恐惧的氛围和随之而来的怪诞。
By the turn os 1980s. Dick was drug-free but his health was in decline. A movie adaption of Do Androids's Dream of Electric Sheep? had finally entered production, but Dick was vociferously critical of the story changes made to what would soon bocome Blade Runner. He was especially opposed to the script's intepretation of the artificial 'replicant' characters as tragic supermen. However, when the production team showed him a reel of completed effects shots, Dick was so stunned by the accuracy with which the footage captured what he conceived as the mood of the original novel that he was finally placated.
80年代初，迪克成功戒毒，但他的健康每况日下。《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗》一书的电影改编终于有了眉目，但迪克却对后来将成为《银翼杀手》的这一改编故事充满不满。尤其是对电影剧本中将复制人刻画成“悲剧超级英雄”这一点他尤其不同意。但是，当电影制作组给他看了一段拍摄成的效果片段之后，迪克震惊无比，片段精确呈现了他为 小说设象的“基调”，迪克终于不再纠结。