April 3, 2010 From the LA Times Blog
Geoff Boucher, from the LA Timeblog invites us to revisit Scott Timberg's amazing series on the author's last years at the occasion of the 28th anniversary of his death
- PART 1: Philip K. Dick in O.C., a stranger in a strange land
- PART 2: Philip K. Dick at work in John Birch territory
- PART 3: Philip K. Dick, an uneasy spy in '70s suburbia
- PART 4: Philip K. Dick finds God and madness on the doorstep
- PART 5: Philip K. Dick scans the darkness of O.C.
- PART 6: Phillip K. Dick and the maze of death
June 1, 2010 A New PKD Book in the Pipeline
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which has also acquired the rights to 39 of Mr. Dick’s previously published works and will release them next year, plans to to release Volume 1 of “Exegesis,” which is about 350 pages, in the fall of 2011, and Volume 2, at the same length, a year later.
Mr. Lethem described the books as a chronicle of the period in which Mr. Dick “pulled himself together again, as a writer and a human being.” Read more from the NY Times.
February 4, 2010 — One Third of the Way Through the DADOES Comics Series
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Phillip K. Dick/Steven Dupre. (Boom! Studio 01 and 02/2010). Issue #7 and 8 cover A and B . To see previous issues of the series click here.
March 28, 2010 —A New Comics Book Series, a Prequel to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dust To Dust issue #1 by Chris Roberson and Robert Adler (Hardcover - Sept. 7, 2010).
Who hunted androids before Dick Deckard? Taking place immediately after World War Terminus ends, the problems with artificial -- androids--become apparent. The government decides they must become targets,hunted down, bjut who will do the dirty work? Two men are assigned: Malcolm Reed, a "special" human with the power to feel others' emotions, and Charlie Victor hide? Meanwhile Samantha Wu, a Stanford biologist, fights to save the last of the living animals. Don't miss this science fiction milestone that fleshes out Philip K. Dick's world and DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? mythology!
March 28, 2010 —Update on the Kindle Front
Second Variety is now available on Kindle along with a few other short stories (The Piper in the Woods, The Gun, The Skull, The Crystal Crypt, Beyond the Dorr, Beyond Lies the Wub, etc...) that are available in various format.
Most of his novels are also available on Kindle.
March 28, Which Man in Which High Castle?
The Man in the High Castle: Science Fiction, Philip K. Dick, Hugo Award, Axis Victory in World War II, Imperial Japan. Lambert M. Surhone (Editor), Miriam T. Timpledon (Editor), Susan F. Marseken (Editor). Betascript Publishing (February 19, 2010), 160 pages, paperback. I am wondering what is this book about that is worth $66?
March 28, An Old Fanzine
Nikeas # 12, 80 pages, 1965
Includes: Schizophrenia, the I ching, and Philip K. Dick by PK Dick, Steve Perrin, and others; The Pilgrom Project reviewed by Jerry Pournelle; art by Bjo Trimble, Jack Gaughan, and Alex Eisenstein; a glossary of Middle Earth; Conventional Ballad by R. Coulson; letters from Steve Perrin, Robert Coulson, and Fred Lerner; The Bluedex & theBlackdex reviewed by Ed Wood; and more. 80 pgs. 1965.
March 28, 2010 Back on My Radar
The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, Volume 6 (1980-1982) . It looks like the book is scheduled to be published in June this year. It is available for preorder on Amazon.com. It is going to happen this time?
Preorder your copy here.
March 28, What is Reality?
Reality is Just a Point of View: The Parallel Worlds of Philip K. Dick by Paul R. Jarosch VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (February 12, 2010), 84 pages, paperback
What is real? What is human? These two core topics of Philip K. Dick's permeate his work. This book asks why they were so important to him and digs further into his deeper subthemes such as: illusions, hallucinations, paranoia and schizophrenia. Dick's influences and views are also discussed in this book, such as Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism, presocratic philosophy.