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File:Parliament-Funkadick.jpg|link=Parliament-Funkadick|'''[[Parliament-Funkadick]]''' is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton and VALIS.
File:Parliament-Funkadick.jpg|link=Parliament-Funkadick|'''[[Parliament-Funkadick]]''' is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton and VALIS.


File:Martian Pink-Slip 2.jpg|link=Martian Pink-Slip|'''''[[Martian Pink-Slip]]''''' is a 1964 book on interplanetary labor history by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.
File:Martian Pink-Slip 2.jpg|link=Martian Pink-Slip|'''''[[Martian Pink-Slip]]''''' is a 1964 book on interplanetary labor history by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.


File:I've_seen_people_you_things_wouldn't_believe.jpg|link=I've seen people you things wouldn't believe|"'''[[I've seen people you things wouldn't believe]].'''" —Roy Batty
File:I've_seen_people_you_things_wouldn't_believe.jpg|link=I've seen people you things wouldn't believe|"'''[[I've seen people you things wouldn't believe]].'''" —Roy Batty
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== External links ==
== External links ==


* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley Uncanny valley] @ Wikipedia
* [https://www.hansonrobotics.com/philip-k-dick/ Philip K Dick Research Robot] @ Hanson Robotics
* [https://www.hansonrobotics.com/philip-k-dick/ Philip K Dick Research Robot] @ Hanson Robotics
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Green_Was_My_Valley_(film) How Green Was My Valley (film)]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valles_Marineris Valles Marineris]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valles_Marineris Valles Marineris]


* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_mAeQ1GWc How Green Was My Valley] - trailer @ YouTube
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYiXIVyguU Philip K. Dick android] @ YouTube
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bYiXIVyguU Philip K. Dick android] @ YouTube
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=== Social media ===
=== Social media ===
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Latest revision as of 13:23, 6 June 2024

Earliest known promotional art for How Uncanny Was My Valley.
A face mask of the wearer's own face, an inspiration for How Uncanny Was My Valley.

How Uncanny Was My Valley is a 1941 film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family on Mars, from the point of view of the youngest child Pkd, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents, and his five brothers, in the Valles Marineris during the early modern era.

The story chronicles life in the Martian colonies, the widening gaps between the "Cannies" (human colonists) and the "Uncannies" (android-Martian hybrids), and its effects on the family.

The Waking of the Slate

The film gives a realistic depiction of the traditional Welsh Waking of the Slate ritual.

Anvils In Flight

The musical anvils band Anvils In Flight appears briefly in a bar fight scene performing the introduction to their hit song "Never Touch Ground" (better known as "Anvils Above").

Origin

The concept originated in a Facebook post on the afternoon of Tuesday June 15, 2020.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (6 December 2022)
  • Post @ Twitter (5 August 2022)
  • Post @ Twitter (20 April 2022)
  • Post @ Twitter (22 January 2022)