In The News
July 24, 2010 Adjustment Bureau Release Postponed
About two months after the (pretty awesome-looking) trailer was released, the Matt Damon-Emily Blunt sci-fi thriller The Adjustment Bureau - based on a Philip K. Dick story - has been pushed back from its prime September 17 release date to March 4, 2011.
The sci-fi thriller will be directed by George Nolfi and is loosely based on the Philip K. Dick story, “Adjustment Team.” Matt Damon and Emily Blunt will star and it’s set to be in theaters on September 17th of this year.
July 7, 2010. The 6th Volume of the Letters is Finally Out
The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, Volume 6 (1980-1982).
The sixth volume of the Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick is finally available from Amazon.com.
Twenty years ago, as a member of the Philip K. Dick Society, I helped editing this book. I typed up 50 of the letters that are published in this volume. The letters cover the last two years of Philip K. Dick's life. In particular they cover the period when Blade Runner was made and there are interesting letters talking about the movie. As we know the movie has since become a cult movie.
Just got my copy: A note by Tim Underwood, included in the book, indicates that 1365 copies of the book were printed including 150 slipcases numbered copies. Interestingly, because the dust jacket was printed a decade ago, the information on it (price and ISBN number) is obsolete.
They misspelled my name in the book....grrr.
Order your copy here (before they are all gone)
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.
Did you get you homeopape reader?
As Philip K. Dick predicted it, in the future (our present) we will be reading our newpaper on a video screen. Many PKD novels are now available in Kindle format or as iPhone apps at a fraction of the cost of a book.
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
January 24, 2010 — Philip K. Dick Festival to be Held in Colorado During the Summer
David Hyde aka Lord RC, author of the Pink Beam. A Philip K. Dick Companion, is organizing a huge Philip K. Dick festival to be held in Colorado this summer. A chance for Philip K. Dick fans to get together to talk about their favorite author.
Patrick Clark, publisher of the fanzine PKD Okatu will be guest of honor. Other attendees will be Jason Koornick who operated the philipkdickfans website and John Fairchild who has contributed to The Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter, For Dickheads Only, Radio Free PKD and PKD OTAKU. John also assisted in the editing of THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK (Underwood-Miller Press).
For more information visit the Festival's website: philipkdickfestival.com
Recent Updates
July 25, 2010 The Electric Ant
Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant (Marvel Comics, $3.99). issue 3 and 4 are out. Look on ebay to find them. To see all issues of the series click here.
July 25, 2010 Am I Philip K. Dick?
I Think I Am Philip K. Dick, by Laurence A. Rickels (Univ Of Minnesota Press, June 8, 2010, 432 pages, paperback and hard cover). A book about Philip K. Dick by someone who wrote like Philip K. Dick before having read a book by philip k. dick. He now knows enough to write a book about him.
Available on amazon
July 25, 2010 —Comic Books Update
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dust to Dust are moving along with the release of new issues. To see all issues of both series click here.
June 2, 2010 —The First Two Hardcover Volumes of the DADOES Comics Series and a New DODAES Prequel Comics Book Series
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Vol. 1 Phillip K. Dick Tony Parker and Bill Sienkiewicz. (Boom! 12/2009) and Vol. 2 (04/2010). Each of these two hardbound deluxe editions contains four issues of the comics books series. Together they cover issue 1 to 8.
They also contain additional texts on and about Philip K. Dick by Warren Ellis, Matt Fraction, Rockne S. O' Bannon, Ed Brubacker (Volume 1) and Graeme McMillan, Tony Parker Blond, Gregg Rickman, and Ruchard Straking (Volume 2).
The series received an Eisner Award nomination for Best Series.
May 1, 2010 DADOES Dust To Dust
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dust To Dust, issue #1, cover B by Chris Roberson and Robert Adler (Hardcover - Sept. 7, 2010). Like the DADOES series, each issue will be published with two different covers.
DADOES DUST TO DUST answers the question of who hunted androids before Rick Deckard. Taking place immediately after World War Terminus ends, the problems with artificial life — androids — become apparent. The government decides that the androids must be hunted down — read more and see 8-page preview.
April 12, 2010 Another PKD Comic Book
Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant (Marvel Comics, April 2010, $3.99). Story by David Mack, Art by Pascale, Alixe Colors by Chris Sotomayor, Letters by Nate Piekos Cover by Paul Pope, David Mack.
The short story "The Electric Ant" (1969) made into a comic books series (in five installments). Read more...
April 6, 2010 — DADOES Comics Series #9 and 10 — Jonathan Lethem
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Phillip K. Dick/Steven Dupre. (Boom! Studio 03 and 04/2010). Issue #9 and 10 cover A and B . Issue #9 contains the first 6 pages of an autobiographic essay "Crazy Friend" by Jonathan Lethem which continues through at least issue 11. Covers are from Moritat (9A and 10B), Scott Keating (9B) and Frazer Irving (10A). There is also a call to help Paul William.
To see previous issues of the series click here.
April 4, 2010 More Short Stories of the 50's
Seven Stories by Philip K. Dick: Selected Short Science Fiction Novels (CreateSpace, March 2010, paperback, 168 p, $9.95). A collection with seven stories from the early fifties. It seems that some of the stories have become copyright free which may explain their publication in unusual formats. The seven stories are "Beyond Lies the Wub", "Beyond the Door", "The Crystal Crypt", "The Defenders", "The Eyes Have It", "The Gun", and "The Skull". Order your copy here.
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.
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