Here’s another UK special about Philip K. Dick. Jonathan Lethem, William Gibson, Richard Linklater and Minister Faust weigh in on his legacy.
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Sometimes this feels like the first PKD novel I ever read. It has been so long since I’ve read this that I wonder what happened to my copy. It looked nothing like this one that I know for sure. The premise is simplicity itself: the Axis won World War 2 and took over [...]
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Or maybe Ubik was the first novel I read by Philip K. Dick. Layered reality, sentient machines, psychic powers, religious exploration, and salvation in an aerosol can: sad, funny, surreal and painfully real all at the same time. Having read it twice, I can see why people like John Lennon and Terry Gilliam [...]
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The next three posts are dedicated to my favorite Dick novels. First up is The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. I am not going to get too deep into it but this book was the very first of his novels that I read. I have read it twice and still find in myself [...]
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Here is phildickian as defined by his friend and fellow writer K. W. Jeter. Dr. Adder and The Glass Hammer, Jeter’s two classic science fiction novels from the late 80s/early 90s, are highly recommended by TSFI.
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“I would define ‘phildickians’ as the descriptive modifier for all situations and events characterized by an extreme [...]
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In celebration of December 16th, The 80th birthday of Philip K. Dick, I will be spending the next several days on PKD related posts. First up here’s BBC documentary from 1994.
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