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• lobster_johnson · Jan 27, 2018 · Recommends

  …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…

  on “Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans” ↗
• scandox · Sep 5, 2016 · Recommends

  …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.

  on “Paranoid Android: The Divine Madness of Philip K Dick” ↗
• atombender · Jul 13, 2025 · Recommends

  …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?

  on “Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick (1953)” ↗
• JdeBP · Jan 27, 2018 · Mentions

  …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.

  on “Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans” ↗
• VMG · Jun 14, 2020 · Mentions

  > "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

  on “A File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal (2019) [video]” ↗
• LittlePeter · Sep 11, 2020 · Mentions

  “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  on “Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?” ↗
• atoav · Oct 10, 2021 · Mentions

  "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  on “Good Leaders Know You Can’t Fight Reality” ↗
• brabel · Apr 7, 2023 · Mentions

  …truth doesn't care about your feelings. It just _is_. That's the very definition of reality. In other words: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  on “Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth?” ↗
• atombender · Apr 14, 2025 · Mentions

  …works, the only titles PKD came up with were The Man in the High Castle, VALIS, Flow My Tears, Palmer Eldritch, and A Scanner Darkly. So. Yes, most. Editors changed his shorts, too. I love the title "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", but PKD wanted to call it "Frozen Journey". [1] This one was unusual in that the editor gave PKD the title and asked him to write a plot around it.

  on “Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)” ↗
• DonHopkins · Sep 6, 2025 · Mentions

  I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Hope_I_Shall_Arrive_Soon

  on “The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years” ↗