In The News
May 23, 2009 — Book Reviews and Interview on the Republipot
The "Republibot" site is running three PKD-related articles
- Review of "What if our World is their Heaven"
- Review of Tessa Dick's "Owl in Daylight"
- Interview with Tessa Dick about her novel
May 20, 2009— Flow My Tears to Be Made Into a Movie
Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, who picked up first-look rights to sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's estate in 2007, have selected his 1974 novel "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as the first of his works they will adapt for the screen. Read more >>
May 4, 2009— Philip K. Dick's widow files suits
From Variety. The widow of sci-fi scribe Philip K. Dick has sued the production arm of the estate and several other entities, alleging her rights to proceeds from "Ubik" and "A Scanner Darkly" were violated. Read more >>
March 10, 2009 — A remake (Total Recall) and a new movie (Adjustment Bureau) on the way
Total Recall, the 1990 movie, based on the short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" starring Arnold Schwartzenegger, will be remade just in case you did not remember the first one.
The Adjustment Bureau based on the 1954 short story The Adjustment Team will be shot with Matt Damon and George Nolfi (Ocean's Twelve, The Sentinel) as screenwriter and director. The Adjustment Bureau is described as a sci-fi romance about a congressman in love with a ballet dancer who discovers that Earth is one big sound stage controlled by strange outside forces. Filming should start by late summer 2009 and the movie is scheduled to be released in 2010.
February 13, 2009 — New Book and Interview of Tessa Dick
An Owl in The Daylight —Things Are Not As They Appear, Tessa Dick (Create Space, January 8, 2009), This new book by Tessa Dick, Philip K. Dick's wife between 1973 and 1977, recreates the "The Owl In Daylight" the novel that PKD intended to write before his untimely death. Read interview with the author on Self Publishing Review
"The Owl in Daylight is my tribute to my husband. I attempted to recreate the masterpiece that he had in mind, even though he left few clues about the story. As with VALIS and other later works, the plot loosely follows his own life. I hope that I have captured the spirit of the Owl as Phil would have written it, if his life had not been cut short by a massive stroke." Tessa Dick (excerpt of interview)
Recent Updates
May 4, 2009 — Two Issues of an Old Fanzine
Uncle Jam #50, 1981 and #57, 1982 (Interviews).
May 4, 2009 — Another Ph.D. thesis on PKD.
How Much Does Chaos Scare You? by Aaron Barlow. Lulu.com (9 Nov 2005). A series of essays on the writing and ideas of Philip K. Dick presented in eight chapters. This in-depth look at the philosophies behind Dick's SF and mainstream novels is based on Barlow's 1988 doctoral dissertation at the University of Iowa.
April 27, 2009 — Comic Books: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, BOOM! Studios2009. Starting in June BOOM! Studios will publish 24 issues of this comic book adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The entire novel will be turned into a comic book format using the actual text of the book. See press release. Pages from the books can be seen here.
April 10, 2009 — Music: Study for Philip K. Dick by the Pope of Electronic Music.
Study for Philip K. Dick — by Klaus Schulze, in "La Vie Electronique" (2009).
Member of Tangerine Dream in 1969, founder of Ash Ra Tempel in 1970 before starting a solo career as an electronic music soloist, Klaus Schulze is the founder of modern electronic music. His meditative soundscapes played a major influential role in the development of New Age music. His masterpieces (Moondawn, Mirage or Timewind) remain unrivaled today. Study for Philip K. Dick was written between 1972 and 1975 (around the time when Flow My Tears The Policeman Said was published) first released in 1995, and is now released in an album entitled "La Vie Electronique 2". Study for Philip K. Dick can be purchased from Amazon and all his music is available from emusic (see banner in sidebar). I have been a fan of Schulze since the 70's and his music is makes great company when updating this website late at night.
March 29, 2009 — Philip K. Dick on Kindle
A number of short stories, most of his major science fiction novels, and other Philip K. Dick books are available in a Kindle format
March 29, 2009 — A new book for the PKD Scholar
The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick –Scarecrow Press, March 28, 2009.
Jason Vest argues that PKD adapts the conventions of science fiction and postmodernism to reflect humanist concerns about the difficulties of maintaining identity, agency, and autonomy in the latter half of the twentieth century. By comparing his writing to that of Kafka, Borges, and Calvino, The Postmodernism Humanism of Philip K. Dick demonstrates that Dick's fiction is a fascinating barometer of postmodern American life, even as it participates in an international tradition of visionary literature. Buy now.
February 4, 2009— New Edition of Future Imperfect
Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies (Bison Books, March 2009) by Jason Vest. 248 pages, $17.85, paperback (this is the second edition of this book).
Among the films adapted from novels and stories by Philip K. Dick are Blade Runner, Confessions d'un Barjo, Minority Report, and most recently Richard Linklatter's A Scanner Darkly. Eight substantial criticisms illustrate how and how well each film expands, extrapolates and departs from Dick's singular vision.
Available at Amazon.com for only $14
January 18, 2009 — For the Philip K.Dick Scholar
Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age (Studies in Major Literary Authors), Routledge, December 3, 2008, 177 pages, $95.00, hardcover.
Content : a 20-page biography of the author, Martian Time Slip: "The Mindset of Otherness", Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: "Mechanical Universe and Its Discontent", A maze of Death: "Life Is A Dream, But Is It Better That Way?", A Scanner Darkly: "The Reel Identity", The Search of Truth as an Antidote for Suffering in Valis" and a bibliography.
January 18, 2009 — For the Philip K. Dick Collector
Yandro #171 (1967) Contains a letter of PKD.
Yandro was a science fiction fanzine published from 1953-1986 by Buck and Juanita Coulson. Over that period, they published 259 issues, the final issue not being distributed until 1991. Yandro's content covered a broad spectrum of topics and the 'zine won the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 1965. (source: NationMaster encyclopedia, )
Philip K. Dick Reading Companions
If you are interested in understanding Philip K. Dick's oeuvre but do not have the time to read (or reread) all his novels, you will find these three books useful. They give background information, analyses, ratings and plot summaries of his novels and short stories that are helpful to get an overview of his oeuvre. Andrew Butler's books is the most concise but packed with information, while The Pink Beam gives extensive and detailed information about every single short story and novel written by PKD. In the book of Douglas Mackey you'll find more extensive analyses of PKD's novels. Andrew Butler's Philip K. Dick: Revised and Updated (Pocket Essential) and Lord RC's Pink Beam. A Philip K. Dick Companion are available from amazon. The Douglas Mackey's book is out of print but can be found at book dealers or on ebay.
Attempt at publishing this book has failed, again!
The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, Volume 6 (1980-1982) . It looks like the book will not be published on December 28 as announced on Amazon.com. The book is out of print again! What's wrong with it!?
Still Hot
The Penultimate Truth DVD (KULTUR VIDEO, Nov. 2008). A new Philip K. Dick DVD explores the mysterious universe of the author through interview with people who knew him. A must-have for anyone interested in Philip K. Dick. Read review here
Available at Amazon.com.
Previous Updates
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