A third cut for Blade Runner: To mark the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner a third cut of Blade Runner will be released (Blade Runner -The Final Cut). According to director Ridley Scott "it will be like watching the movie as it should have been 25 years ago with a better sound track". more...
From technovelgy.com: BluScreen Minority Report Ads. BluScreen, an interactive advertising technology that identifies passers-by using their Bluetooth-enabled cellphones, is being tested at the school of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University in the UK. more...
From The Guardian:Do robots dream of copyright? Dead author Philip K Dick lives on, in the form of an automaton. But might it infringe property rights? more...
"Renaissance" a new French animated thriller
Besides "Blade Runner," "Renaissance" borrows freely from the rest of Philip K. Dick's paranoid, identity-muddling reading list. more...
The film represents a much-welcomed blossoming of adult animation inspired by the gritty graphic novels of Frank Miller and the sci-fi tales of Philip K. Dick...more...
October 2006
From the Minneapolis City Pages - "How the West Was Won" article about Lawrence Sutin, Philip K. Dick's biographer... His first book, 1989's Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, took him to Glen Elm [sic], California, where he spent weeks in a rented room poring over the ...read more
From the Mail & Guardian online (South Africa): "A lurid potboiler of a biography" Emmanuel Carrère teeters precariously on the Philip K Dick bandwagon, with his biography of the American science-fiction writer, writes Gerhard Hope more
From The Australian - Sydney,Australia: "James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon". ... at the incomparable Ursula K. Le Guin, who, it turns out, was an epistolary friend of Tiptree, and eventually of Sheldon (as were Philip K. Dick, Joanna Russ ...more
"A Scanner Darkly" DVD Arrives December 19th
We're also fans of author Philip K. Dick (although we've never read this particular novel), and a mash-up of the "interpolated rotoscoping" animation technique ... more
From the TheManRoom (USA) Scanner Darkly DVD Based on a classic novel by Philip K. Dick. Starring Keanu Reeves ("Constantine," "The Matrix" trilogy ..more
From the Washington Times - (Washington,DC,USA) "Sting gives Elizabethan composer new voice". The late science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick prophesized that songs by the Elizabethan composer John Dowland would one day by covered by a pop singer named ...more
From the UK SF Book News Network - (Manchester,UK). Bryan J Robb talks about Philip K. Dick movies in his new book, "Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film" is fascinating and insightful look at all those movies - like Blade Runner, Total Recall ...more
Ubik is a phone now! Ubik: mobile phone of the future. Designed by Frog Design. Forget minimalism. If you have a do-it-all device, one of the things it should be able to do is adapt to the individual user. This dream gadget is a phone by name, but an ultracustomizable Swiss Army Knife by design. Feast your eyes on Ubik, a phone that does it all and looks good doing it. more...
November 2006
From the OCWEEKLY (Santa Ana, CA) The Voice is Calling -Scanner Drakly Composer Scores big. Philip K. Dick never wrote a symphony but he might have considered it....read more
From the East Bay Express. Hooked on NoiseCandy. Oakland's 21 Grand hosts avant-garde Scanner Darkly soundtracker Graham Reynolds, along with Bay Area weirdness. read
Filmmaker Richard Linklater interview (From comingsoon.com) read
Face of things to come in robots (The Dallas Morning News) ...One of Hanson Robotics Inc.'s most famous creations is a full-size robot designed to look — and talk — like science-fiction author Philip K. Dick, the man who gave the world Blade Runner, based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? read more...
The Philip K. Dick android is not alone! Robots and Androids videos.
Right out of a Philip K. Dick story: A robot that heals itself? Researchers at Cornell University build a four-legged robot that can adjust to damage read
December 2006
Library of America to issue volume of Philip K. Dick. One of the world's favorite cult writers, Philip K. Dick, is being canonized. read
From NTHPOSITION: How Phil K Dick took over the world. Read
Children of Men a science-fiction movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón should please Philip K. Dick's fans and could be the best movie of the year...read
