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Phillip K Dicks Terrifying Lost Cosmic Horror

2026-02-05 Entertainment
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Phillip K Dick is an extremely influential Sci-Fi writer in fact, I would say he wrote some of the most influential works to come out of the new wave of the 60s and 70s. He’s most famous among the general public for being the author who wrote the source material for the Bladerunner movie, Do Androids dreams of Electric sheep, which is quite frankly very different and much weirder compared to the movie. I’ve already done a full video on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but today we’re going to be talking about a much less known story by Phillip K Dick, one that I think has silently influenced a lot of works of science fiction. There are threads of influence in movies like Matrix, and They Live and in other sci-fi that’s obsessed with hidden systems of control, manufactured reality, the mind-breaking idea that the world you experience is actively lying to you. This story appeared in a collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison called Dangerous visions. It included 33 stories by various authors. One was Faith of Our Fathers by Phillip K Dick. This was in 1967 during the New Wave a Sci-Fi, which we’ve dived into a few times on this channel. In short with was a movement within the sci-fi genre which originated in Britain, authors during the new wave began to explore more transgressive topics in sci-fi and push the Genre’s Boundaries, it’s from the New Wave that we get book like Dune, The Left Hand of Darkness, Nova by Samuel R. Delany and The Man in the High Castle. 👽 Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ideasoficeandfire or PAYPAL - https://paypal.me/QuinnsIdeas?locale.x=en_US 🎨 Art: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lxwyvO 🎵 Music: https://www.youtube.com/@JamezDahlMusic 📚 Get These Books! Affiliate link* https://amzn.to/3AQ0aSs Quinn's Discord: https://discord.gg/uGx4WsjVCZ FOLLOW QUINN ON TWITTER: Twitter: https://twitter.com/IDEASOFICE_FIRE I NOW HAVE A SUBREDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdeasofIceandFire/ Quinn's New Graphic Novel: https://www.quinnhoward.net/theliebehindthestar Buy Quinn's Comic Books: https://www.quinnhoward.net/shop Quinn's Website: https://www.quinnhoward.net Like me on Facebook!: https://www.facebook.com/IOIAF 🎥 Mentioned Videos 🎬 Other Playlist Three-Body Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUfIzEhovpQJ2ENiNvJoOD2A H.P. Lovecraft Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUcMoc_ZljrDbgrRi3x_CLYD Hyperion Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUfgKLf-CBr5VCC2xM0qX8Xh Dune Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUdsgN_vFaZmfjc6bXxPqajV Foundation Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUeQMsBkZJ72aIIG8nR-No6J Feel free to leave a comment like and subscribe! Thanks For Watching!

Top Comments (10)

@ahronfishbain4203 2026-02-05

Hi Quinn, Guys here

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@ChessGambitsExplained 2026-02-05

No way Philip k dick also predicted “clankers”

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@knightonart8886 2026-02-05

Quinn I would pay good money if you did audiobooks.

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@paulchavez3039 2026-02-06

bro just meets the demiurge and it tells him to stfu and go back to dinner lol

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@TheFleshPrevails 2026-02-05

We are blessed with so much Quinn lately and I'm so here for it!

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@vivectelvanni 2026-02-07

I love how many things Dick predicted. Recently I read The Penultimate Truth and in that novel, the government is actively using what is essentially AI deepfake documentaries about WW2 (because nobody alive at this time can remember it or knew someone who was there) and a robotic automated president to keep poor people in underground bunkers so that the elite can enjoy their territories on the surface. Him basically using AI deepfake disinformation/misinformation videos as a story device in 1964 is extremely disturbing. That’s just one of MANY things that Dick basically accurately, and terrifyingly, predicted with weird accuracy.

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@omnobore-w8l 2026-02-05

Tbf. Farmers also engineer life for later consumption. So cosmic horror depends on if you are the farmer or the cow.

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@JavaJunky 2026-02-05

Well, it's far more terrifying when Quinn uses his scary voice. 😶

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@alexanderpierzchala1615 2026-02-05

I won’t lie, when I started this video I thought it was gonna be some run of the mill sci fi horror story that Quinn was going to cover. Of course an average Quinn video is already S-tier when compared to the field but even for him of course there are levels. This is an S tier video. I agree with you Quinn. I almost can’t put into words why it’s so terrifying. I think what unnerved me the most is the words that the Leader utters. It’s like a poem, but not intentionally. It gives the ultimate feeling of omnipresence but not in the traditional way, like the “I herald your beginning I herald your end I herald galactus” way, where it’s a clear statement of omnipotence, or even pure evil, like “the bones of your descendants for a billion generations will be ground into powder and be the beaches for the oceans of their blood” type thing. It’s almost like we’re getting a shaky connection to some mind that has so many connections it would collapse our mind into a black hole if we could fathom it truly, and even the glimpse we get, it makes enough sense so that we understand the magnitude and control it possesses, but it’s almost like texting someone you’re interested in but that you don’t really care if you end up dating them. so when you’re texting, you don’t spend the time to construct your texts carefully, you almost just vomit put something that your brain has scraped together with the minimum amount of energy to convey the most basic point of what you want to say across, and you don’t even care if it gets delivered. And that glimpse, that text we get, is still batshit crazy poetic hell horror.

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@ClarenceBoddicker1130 2026-02-10

Phillip K Dick just like Orwell really knew how society was heading, scary how much this story rings true 2 day

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