JANUARY 2006
The Philip K Dick Android Project

For WIRED magazine's NextFest, a team of artists, writers, engineers, literary scholars, and freethinkers have created an android portrait of Philip K Dick.

Check also their blog for more pictures.

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Listen to the Philip K Dick android in a BBC radio show about the religious experience of PKD (you can skip the first 2 min of unrelated stuff )


FEBRUARY 2006
The Android is Gone Missing!

When good robots go bad
By Gary Kemble



MARCH 2006 Next, The Golden Man

"Next" will be the next PKD movie based on the Golden Man. Starring Jessica Biel and Nicolas Cage - Directed by Lee Tamahori (“Die Another Day”)

Jessica Biel

A Scanner Darkly:

Artist Talks A Scanner Darkly

One animation that dares to be the most different of all the rest this year is the adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly...

'A Scanner Darkly' Reveals Near Future Police State

Paul Joseph Watson

Planet.com February 22 2006

Mark Stovall

APRIL 2006
  • This book, the first american edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) is worth $5,000 according to a sale on Ebay this week.
  • This british edition of the Counter-Clock World White Lion 1977 has sold for $1,225.00 on Ebay.


MAY 2006
A Scanner Darkly

New movie stills on CanMag


JUNE 2006
  • "PKD Otaku" is an american based paper and online magazine or fanzine about the american sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, (edited by Patrick Clark and Mark Oberst). Contains letters, reviews & secondary material. Isssue #16 has just been published.

  • From The Observer: "I Am Alive And You Are Dead by Emmanuel Carrere : Philip K Dick notched up a respectable five entries in Peter Boxall's recent (much-maligned) doorstopper, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die." (read more)
  • From Nature: What is reality? Cinematographic technique can provide insight into the perception of reality. Philip K. Dick is discussed in an article in the prestigious scientific journal Nature. Scientists used scenes from Waking Life (the previous movie of Linklater) to show that different parts of the brain are stimulated by real life video and by the rotoscoped version of the same scene. Read Article

JULY 2006
About Scanner Darkly


  • 1977 Philip K. Dick interview + Linklater, Pallotta, Ryder, etc.. on A Scanner Darkly

AUGUST 2006
  • From the New Yorker: "Eye in the Sky" inspired music by composer Elliot Sharp

  • Today the news seeem to suggest that Paul Giamatti would play the role of PKD in the biographical movie Panasonic instead of Bill Pullman....
PHILIP K. DICK IN THE NEWS - ARCHIVE 01/2006 to 08/2006