A Philip K. Dick Bibliography

Sony released the official synopsis of the Total Recall movie remake. The movie is due to be released in theaters August, 2012.

Seen on the web:

• ‘Total Recall’ director talks remake//NME.com

Both films are based on Philip K Dick’s 1966 short story We Can Remember For You Wholesale. Now, Wiseman has revealed that he is almost done with his movie. He told Coming Soon: “I’m very close to handing over my cut. It’s going really well.
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Colin Farrell and his wife Kate Beckinsale

• Total Recall reboot won’t be going to Mars//TG Daily

Sony Pictures has released the official synopsis for its upcoming re-adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s We Can Remember it for You Wholesale. As you may recall, We Can Remember it for You Wholesale served as the inspiration for the first Total Recall film .
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• A Totally Official Synopsis For The ‘Total Recall’ Reboot//Science Fiction

The synopsis is missing several key words that one would expect and mentions the Philip K. Dick story on which it is based up front: “Total Recall” is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember …
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• Len Wiseman talks Total Recall//TotalFilm

Now Wiseman has come out and had his say on the project, which he insists will delve deeper into the themes addressed by the Philip K Dick story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, upon which the first film was based. “I’m very close to handing over …
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The new issue of the Philip K. Dick fanzine PKD OTAKU can be downloaded as a PDF on the philip k dick fans website (philipkdickfans.com)

Here is the content:

• Editorial by Patrick Clark
• A matter of weight: The Exegesis of Philip K Dick by Dave Hyde
• On The Confusion Between Eisegesis, Exegesis and the Queen of the Fairies: An Eisegesistical Commentary by Frank C. Bertrand
• A Hell-Chore, Indeed! by ej ‘Jami’ Morgan
• A Scanner Darkly: A Slice In Time by Lord Running Clam
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick: 1974 — A Summary by Dave Hyde
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick: 1974 — An Index compiled by Dave Hyde
• A Reappraisal of Philip K. Dick’s ‘The Cosmic Puppets’ by Nick Buchanan
• Book Reviews
• Notes and Comments
• Letters to the Editor

Philip K. Dick Fanzine

BookPulse is offering an iPad app for an enhanced reading experience of the Exegesis. More than a regular eBook, BookPulse allows to share annotations, interact with other readers, connect with Facebook and share reading experiences. This new approach to reading books should be interesting, particularly with books like the Philip K Dick Exegesis.

BookPulse enables the community of readers to add layers of information within the book, to engage in discussions with other readers and to connect with the editor and the author of the book.

A free LITE version of the app is available  in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-exegesis-philip-k.-dick/id492161170?mt=8
For more information on the BookPulse platform see www.bookpulse.com

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/Exegesis.BookPulse
App in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exegesisbookpulse/id488582280?mt=8

Philip the robot, build by Hanson Robotics, is not new; a lot has been said and written about it and its head that was lost in a plane in 2005 on a flight between Dallas and Las Vegas.. On December 2011, the robot reappeared in the news and was interviewed on national TV.

The Philip K. Dick robot

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which recently published the The Philip K. Dick Exegesis and many of the PKD’s science fiction novels, is also publishing his novels in e-book format.

The titles  include Now Wait for Last Year,  the next novel to be adapted into a movie,  A Scanner Darkly, semi-autobiographical novel about the California drug subculture (a great read, much better than the movie made in 2007), and one of his masterpiece, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Available titles include:

• The Divine Invasion (9780547601199) read more
• Lies, Inc. (9780547601212) read more
• Now Wait for Last Year (9780547601298) read more
• A Scanner Darkly (9780547601311) read more
• The Simulacra (9780547601304) read more
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (9780547601328) read more
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (9780547601335) read more
• VALIS (9780547601342) read more

For more information visit http://hmhtrade.com/pkdick/

Interesting article on the Exegesis by someone who has met Philip K. Dick.

The Voices in Philip K. Dick’s Head

By CHARLES PLATT Published: December 16, 2011 in the New York Times Book Review

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The second volume of the new five-volume edition of Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick is available on Amazon. This book, entitled “Adjustment Team”, contains 26 stories and novellas from the extraordinarily productive years of 1952 and 1953, along with extensive story notes.

This series of books, published by Subterranean Press, is the first hard cover reprint of the Collected Stories, since the third and last Underwood-Miller print run  in 1991. According to Frank Hollander (see his reviews on Amazon) these books are poor re-editions of the original Collected Stories, with many unacceptable flaws. I would say that the cover isn’t great either.

Volume 2 of the Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announces the publication of the Exegesis as well as the creation, with Bookpulse (I am not sure what this is), of a social eBook app for the Exegesis. This app will “allows readers to share annotations from Dick scholars, connect with their favorite social network, discover other books by Dick, and interact with others”.

Jonathan Lethem, who is co-editor of the Exegesis with Pamela Jackson says: “The Exegesis is a great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. It’s the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn’t a legend and he wasn’t mad. He lived among us, and was a genius.” I can’t wait to get my copy.

Philip K. Dick’s daughters Laura Leslie and Isa Hackett and Jonathan Lethem have embarked on a promotional tour and will appear at New York’s Union Square Barnes & Noble on Nov. 7 (7 p.m.), the Los Angeles Public Library with Jackson and moderated by Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin on November 14 (7 p.m.), and Moe’s Books in Berkeley, California, with Jackson on November 22 (7:30 p.m.). I can’t wait to meet them.

The Exegesis, Harcourt 2011, hard cover

Joshua Glenn posted on his blog an article that was published initially in Hermenaut in 1999.  This very interesting piece, peppered with many pictures of the man and his books, is both a biography and an analysis of P. K. Dick’s work. A great read.

Issue #15 of the Hermenaut, 1999.