……有史以来写过的最末日般悲观的结局之一（虽然他的开山之作《Second Variety》甚至还要更黑暗）。我想不出他有什么故事能稍微让人振奋一点。他大多数最优秀的作品——随便举几个：《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》、《Impostor》、《The Electric Ant》、《A Little Something for Us Tempunauts》、《Second Variety》、《Explorers We》和《Colony》——全都是以阴暗、常常令人压抑的基调收场。而在少数几部经典中……
…most apocalyptically pessimistic endings ever written (though his seminal "Second Variety" manages to be even darker). I can't think of many that are in some way uplifting. Most of his best stories — "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "Impostor", "The Electric Ant", "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", "Second Variety", "Explorers We" and "Colony", to name a few — are end on a dark, often depressing note. Of the few classics that…
……这些短篇里能看到他克制、精准的一面，这会在某种程度上改变你对他长篇作品的看法。我极力推荐这几篇：《Faith of Our Fathers》、《Upon The Dull Earth》、《The Electric Ant》、《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》。我觉得只读他的长篇小说，就只能看到这位作家的冰山一角。
…the stories you see his controlled, precise side and that kind changes how you feel about his longer work. I cannot recommend these enough: Faith of Our Fathers Upon The Dull Earth The Electric Ant I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon I think reading the novels one is only seeing one side of the writer.
……跟原作几乎没什么相似之处。他们还做了一些奇怪的选篇决定，完全没能凸显 PKD 最出名的那些特质。这里面唯一真正称得上经典的就只有《Autofac》。为什么不选《The Electric Ant》、《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》、《We Can Remember It For You Wholesale》（版权可能还在《Total Recall》制片方手里？）、《A Little Something for Us Tempunauts》或者《Faith of Our Fathers》呢？甚至《Second Variety》也行啊？
…little resemblance to it. They also made some odd choices that didn't really emphasize the qualities that PKD is known for. "Autofac" is the only really classic story here. Why not "The Electric Ant", "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (rights still owned by the Total Recall producers maybe?), "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", or "Faith of Our Fathers"? Or, indeed, Second Variety?
……你质疑的是文章而不是 PKD，那为什么你专门引出来挑刺的那部分，偏偏是 PKD 自己写的话？那可是他为《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》写的序言里的引文。
…article, rather than PKD, that you are taking issue with, why is the part that you explicitly quoted in order to take issue with it the part that was written by PKD? It's a quote from his introduction to I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon.
> “reality is that which, when you ignore it, doesn't go away”。现实就是：当你不再相信它时，它依然不会消失的东西。——Philip K. Dick，《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》
> "reality is that which, when you ignore it, doesn't go away". Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
……有史以来写过的最末日般悲观的结局之一（虽然他的开山之作《Second Variety》甚至还要更黑暗）。我想不出他有什么故事能稍微让人振奋一点。他大多数最优秀的作品——随便举几个：《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》、《Impostor》、《The Electric Ant》、《A Little Something for Us Tempunauts》、《Second Variety》、《Explorers We》和《Colony》——全都是以阴暗、常常令人压抑的基调收场。而在少数几部经典中……
…most apocalyptically pessimistic endings ever written (though his seminal "Second Variety" manages to be even darker). I can't think of many that are in some way uplifting. Most of his best stories — "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "Impostor", "The Electric Ant", "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", "Second Variety", "Explorers We" and "Colony", to name a few — are end on a dark, often depressing note. Of the few classics that…
……这些短篇里能看到他克制、精准的一面，这会在某种程度上改变你对他长篇作品的看法。我极力推荐这几篇：《Faith of Our Fathers》、《Upon The Dull Earth》、《The Electric Ant》、《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》。我觉得只读他的长篇小说，就只能看到这位作家的冰山一角。
…the stories you see his controlled, precise side and that kind changes how you feel about his longer work. I cannot recommend these enough: Faith of Our Fathers Upon The Dull Earth The Electric Ant I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon I think reading the novels one is only seeing one side of the writer.
……跟原作几乎没什么相似之处。他们还做了一些奇怪的选篇决定，完全没能凸显 PKD 最出名的那些特质。这里面唯一真正称得上经典的就只有《Autofac》。为什么不选《The Electric Ant》、《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》、《We Can Remember It For You Wholesale》（版权可能还在《Total Recall》制片方手里？）、《A Little Something for Us Tempunauts》或者《Faith of Our Fathers》呢？甚至《Second Variety》也行啊？
…little resemblance to it. They also made some odd choices that didn't really emphasize the qualities that PKD is known for. "Autofac" is the only really classic story here. Why not "The Electric Ant", "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (rights still owned by the Total Recall producers maybe?), "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", or "Faith of Our Fathers"? Or, indeed, Second Variety?
……你质疑的是文章而不是 PKD，那为什么你专门引出来挑刺的那部分，偏偏是 PKD 自己写的话？那可是他为《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》写的序言里的引文。
…article, rather than PKD, that you are taking issue with, why is the part that you explicitly quoted in order to take issue with it the part that was written by PKD? It's a quote from his introduction to I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon.
> “reality is that which, when you ignore it, doesn't go away”。现实就是：当你不再相信它时，它依然不会消失的东西。——Philip K. Dick，《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》
> "reality is that which, when you ignore it, doesn't go away". Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
“现实就是当你不再相信它时，它依然不会消失的东西。”——Philip K. Dick，《I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon》
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon