2007 UPDATES 01/2007 to 12/2007
January 2007
A classic title that was missing from my virtual collection:

Philip K. Dick and The Umbrella of Light by Angus Taylor (T-K Graphic, Baltimore, 1975)

This essay was published by T-K Graphics, Baltimore, in 1975. Parts of it appeared earlier in the British journal Foundation, No. 4, July 1973, in an article entitled “Can God Fly? Can He Hold Out His Arms and Fly?” Read text here
March 2007
Handful of Darkness Rich & Cowan, (1957) This edition exists in two colors....
SF Terror Tales HC edition (Gnome 1955)- contains "Impostor"
New Gollancz editions of The Three Stigmatas, Martian Time-Slip, Flow my Tears. Dr Bloodmonney, Do Androids Dream and a new short stories collection (Human Is)
Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960's This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick's most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) and Ubik (1969)

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STAR Science Fiction Stories No3 HC , Ballantine 1954. This is the first publication of the short story "Foster You Are Dead"
May 2007
LA Times

Wanted Dead or Alive an article on Emmanuel Carrères PKD biography , by Francie Lin

see comments by David on the Total Dick-Head blog
Sonic Youth, PKD inspired album "Sister" -->
June 20, 2004
  • In the June issue of WIRED:

P.K. Dick Goes Legit: A brief interview with Jonathan Lethem editor of "Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960's". read

or you can read the complete interview here
  • New books, updated books and reeditions coming to your favorite

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  • Next DVD Review, Ultimate Disney - USA
    The film credits as its literary source the 1954 short story The Golden Man, written by Philip K. Dick, who, despite passing away 25 years ago ...read
  • Next DVD Review
    This movie's future is dim.....next!
    by Hock Teh. Read...
December 2007
Blade Runner related Books
Blade Runner: The inside Story, Don Shay (Titan Books, 2003)
The Blade Runner Experience by Will Brooker (Wallflower Press 2006)
Blade Runner: A movie by William S Burroughs. The term "Blade Runner" was borrowed from this book that was first published in 1979.
  • The Gun
    By Philip K. Dick; Read by Michael Bekemeyer
    1 Mp3 File - [UNABRIDGED], Podcast: September 2006 by TheTimeTravelerShow.com.

A human spaceship encounters a strange planet that is giving off intense nuclear radiation. As the ship draws closer to the planet, the crew sees what appears to be a destroyed city and are shot at and forced to land. They find a strangely familiar tableau on the planet below. The reading of The Gun starts at approx halfway through the podcast.

  • Seen on SFsignal.com Two vintage radio broadcasts of "Colony" and "The Defenders" that were aired on " X Minus one" on Oct.10, 1956 and May 22, 1956, respectively. More radio shows here.