Philip K. Dick Bibliography · It's all about his books (1) Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick Bibliography Philip K. Dick's World The Lucky Dog Pet Shop in Berkeley When I see these stories of mine, written over three decades, I think of the Lucky Dog Pet Store. There's a good reason for that. Philip K. His house on Francisco st in Berkeley (then and now) House were he lived in the late 50'. His house in San Rafael House (left and right images) in San Raphael, CA where PKD lived from 1968 to 1972 where the events that inspired in "A Scanner Darkly" took place. The Record store where he worked in Berkeley Rasputin Music, formerly University Music, record store on Telegraph Ave in Berkeley where PKD worked as a clerc. Scenery from the novel Confessions of a Crap Artist Discover the places described in the mainstream novel "Confessions of a Crap Artist" including the house where PKD lived in Point Reyes Station, CA
Philip K. Dick scans the darkness in Disneyland’s shadow During the last years of his life, Philip K. Dick lived in, of all places, Orange County, a Southern California setting that made the life-battered sci-fi writer something of a stranger in a strange land (to borrow from Robert Heinlein). This is the fifth of a six-part series looking at those final years. The series is written by Scott Timberg, the L.A. freelance journalist who runs the West Coast culture blog the Misread City. He’s also a longtime (albeit sometimes closeted) fan of science fiction. Though Philip K. Dick wrote — in a 1973 letter to Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem — “there is no culture here in California, only trash. He sometimes found it hard to locate a sense of place in the famously decentralized Southland. Over the course of his career, the detritus of pop culture – aerosol spray bottles, Barbie and Ken dolls, electronic pets – became icons of near-religious resonance, and the phenomenon amplified when he was living in Fullerton and Santa Ana.
Scriptorium - Philip K. Dick By Richard Behrens & Allen B. Ruch Philip K. Dick was a complex man about whom many things can be said. Immensely talented, he was arguably a genius; and yet he was deeply troubled all his life. But perhaps above all, Philip K. But Dick had little presentiment that he would one day have such an audience. So it’s not hard to imagine that Dick himself would be shocked to find that in the two decades after his death in 1982, his popularity has only increased. The reason why Philip K. Highly personal and occasionally quite idiosyncratic, Philip K. Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago on December 16, 1928 along with a twin sister named Jane Charlotte Dick. The changing information which we experience as world is an unfolding narrative. In this sad demonstration of his obsession with his dead twin, Dick also cleverly reveals the motive and methods of his own writing process. Dick’s parents divorced when he was six. As a teenager, Philip K. The Man In The High Castle earned Philip K.
An Obscure Interview With PKD Caption courtesy of Dangerous Minds: Philip K. Dick, Germs-manager Nicole Panter, author KW Jeter, and artist Gary Panter, at Philip K. Dick’s Santa Ana condo. The photo was taken from Nicole Panter's flickr account. My Facebook friend Henry Baum hepped me to this interview from Slash Magazine 1980. I like the idea that the characters in Dick's books are owners rather than renters. Special thanks to Henry Baum! Wow, when I was looking for a picture of the shirt, I found this article about PKD, looks long...
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The Case for a Phildickian Religious Movement – Part III « The Palm Tree Garden In Part I of our series , we began discussing a Philip K. Dick approach to modern spirituality, concluding at the very least a thematic relevance. In Part II , we looked at a few of the core ideas behind PKD’s own spiritual investigations and examined the Tractates Cryptica Scriptura, an insightful primary text that could work as a starting point for some of these core ideas. In this installation, we’ll consider some possible methodologies, whereby modern practitioners might participate in a Dickian spiritual life. Right off the bat, based on what we know about Dick and his approaches to philosophy and spirituality, we can conclude that there are no easy answers to the question of just what a practice of Phildickian philosophy (which I’m going to refer to as “Valism”, after VALIS) would look like. PKD wrote science fiction, to be sure, but could be considered almost the diametrical opposite of the odious L. I. Philip K. Going to Christian church, in Valism, is a good thing. II.
philip k. dick link explosion I've been blogging for a few years now, and over that time I've linked to Philip K. Dick related material a whole lot of times. Here, in honor of reading Dr. * "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later." It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question "What is reality?" * Another great essay at Grey Lodge Occult Review: "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others." We are accustomed to supposing that all change takes place along the linear time axis: from past to present to future. * R. * The first law of kipple is that kipple drives out nonkipple. * Philip K. * Philip K. Interviewer: What did you think of Vonnegut’s attitude towards his characters (in Breakfast of Champions)? * Philip K. * Profiles of Philip K. * Jameson on Dr.
Strange Horizons Articles: More Real Than Real: Philip K. Dick's Visionary Posthumanism , by Alex Lyras 27 June 2011 "Being Human is aspiring to be human. Since it is not aspiring to be the only human, it is an aspiration on the parts of others as well. Then we might say that being human is aspiring to be seen. Stanley Cavell, The Claim Of Reason The Very Near Future Blade Runner theatrical poster The more we debate the potential merits of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics, a topic inundating the zeitgeist with weekly leaps in smart technology, the more relevant the 1982 film Blade Runner becomes. In a text scroll preceding the opening frame, we learn that the Tyrell Corporation has advanced their "replicants" to the Nexus 6 stage. Blade Runner teeters between answers, expertly blurring the lines between human and automaton, and culminating in questions more thought provoking than the last: what happens when machines behave more authentically than their creators? Realer Than Real In the film's maiden sequence, fire plumes from industrial towers set against a jet black cityscape.
PKD Invents 21st Century We live in the twenty-first century. Philip K. Dick helped to invent it. The standard critical view of Dick, the great science fiction writer who died in 1982, is that the main concern of his work lay with showing us that reality isn’t what we think it is. Like most clichés, that assessment of Dick has a solid basis in fact (assuming, that is, that after reading Dick you are willing to believe that anything has a solid basis in fact). But the games Dick played with reality were not, I think, the most remarkable products of his infinitely imaginative mind. A case in point is the announcement last spring that a Hong Kong company, Artificial Life, Inc. What this news item brought to mind for me was two of Phil Dick’s works—the early (1953) short story, “The Days of Perky Pat,” and the dazzling 1965 novel, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, in which Dick recycled the Perky Pat concept into a breathtaking rollercoaster-ride of a book. So wrote Philip K. Vivienne, at six dollars a month.
Philip K. Dick and the Pleasures of Unquotable Prose What does it mean when a great writer like Philip K. Dick is considered to have an occasionally terrible prose style? Even so brilliant and well-regarded a defender of Dick’s novels as author Jonathan Lethem has referred, in a 2007 interview with the online journal Article for example, to Dick’s “howlingly bad” patches of prose. Lethem also made these sentiments clear in an interview that accompanied the publication of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s by the Modern Library of America. (Lethem edited this and subsequent volumes.) For starters, we need a clear example of the bad prose in question. A long silence, then. Take a minute to read this passage closely. The usual defense of the disappointments in Dick’s sentences is: ignore the bad patches; just keep reading. Paradoxically, plot summary can be exactly the opposite of what we usually assume it is: reductive. Ubik takes place in a world where psychics are common and commonly hated and feared. But with Dick it’s different.
Philip K. Dick's Divine Interference, by Erik Davis It was February of 1974, and the American science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick was in pain. The man whose darkly comic novels of androids, weird drugs, and false realities stand as some of the most brilliant and visionary in the genre had just had an impacted wisdom tooth removed, and the sodium pentathol was wearing off. A delivery woman arrived with a package of Darvon, and when the burly, bearded man opened the door, he was struck by the beauty of this dark-haired girl. He was especially drawn to her golden necklace, and he asked her about its curious fish-shaped design. "This is a sign used by the early Christians," she said, and then departed. Most of us who hit the freeways in the U.S. know this fish well, as its Christian and Darwinian mutations wage a war of competing faiths from the rear ends of BMWs and Hondas. For Dick, the ichthus was a secret sign of an altogether different order: it was a trigger for gnosis. The (golden) fish sign causes you to remember.