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Philip K. Dick in the news archive year 2008
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| April 2008 | Many years after it was first announced, the word is out that Disney will produce an animated movie based on the short story the King of the Elves. Below are some of the books that contain this short story first published in 1953 in Beyond Fantasy Fiction. | ||||
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We live in a Dickian world:
A Religion for the fans of PKD: The Hot Tub Mystery Religion ...recommended reading list for the faithful: a collection of Tantric exercises, a text on Sufism, one of Philip K. Dick's Gnostic science fiction stories. |
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| June 2008 | Philip K. DIck Games: Halycon Company is now planning future game adaptations of the stories of Philip K. Dick. Halycon Company, the production company with the rights to make ...read more | ||||
| July 2008 | From Io9: Why Richard Nixon Should be Your Dystopian PresidentHe Battled Philip K. Dick
In 1974, the entity VALIS, which might be God, told writer Philip K. Dick that Nixon was the leader of an oppressive empire comprised of three great superpowers. Since then, Dick and Nixon have warred across the universes, from Dick’s own Radio Free Albemuth to Paul McAuley’s “The Two Dicks,” with Nixon suppressing subversive literature as fast as Dick can compose it. Dick finally dies at the beginning of Michael Bishop’s Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas, but his ghost takes on the task of bringing down Nixon’s fascist rendition of America. |
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| November 2008 | Timecrimes a new movie by Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo - Coming December 12, 2008 "... my inspiration for this film came from the books of Philip K Dick and other writers that took it to the edge." This is Vigalondo's first big screen movie after acting and directing numerous short films. A man who accidentally travels back into the past and meets himself. A naked girl in the midst of the forest. A mysterious stranger with his face wrapped in a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who’s the murdered? Who’s the victim? Interview with Vigalondo on Cinematical Interview with Vigalondo on IO9 Trailer on the official web site Read review in the Los Angeles Times | ||||
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November 29
Timecrimes a new movie by Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo - Coming December 12, 2008
"... my inspiration for this film came from the books of Philip K Dick and other writers that took it to the edge." This is Vigalondo's first big screen movie after acting and directing numerous short films.
A man who accidentally travels back into the past and meets himself. A naked girl in the midst of the forest. A mysterious stranger with his face wrapped in a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who’s the murdered? Who’s the victim?