Never seen this before, PK Dick opines about “Star Wars”:
While I was there in Metz we saw the French premiere of STAR WARS and I was amazed at the theological implications of what, in the film, is called “the force”. Have you seen the film? I then bought the novel. Beyond doubt there is a [...]
Via Waitakere Walks, a photo of Philip K. Dick and Germs manager Nicole Panter, and artist Gary Panter (see comment). Worlds collide.
Some background via Fusion Anomaly:
Nicole Panter met another friend, famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, when she photographed him for a _Slash_ interview. “My friendship with Phil was based [...]
Maybe it’s finally time to weigh in on Loughner. The story has now directly touched on a lot that’s gone into my novel, and really much of my worldview. Loughner is reportedly a fan of Philip K. Dick and the movie Zeitgeist. Peter Joseph weighs in on Tucson here:
It has come to my attention that [...]
Anne Dick’s Search for Philip K. Dick has been rereleased and was written up in the NY Times.
Ms. Dick, who does not suffer fools, recalls Point Reyes Station as a cow town, literally. She remembers the years with Phil, as she calls him, as mostly idyllic. He helped her bring up [...]
Tessa Dick, Philip K. Dick’s last wife (who I interviewed here) is in financial trouble and needs help. She’s auctioning off this letter from PKD about the origin of A Scanner Darkly for $900.
If I had the money to burn, I’d do it, if only to rent it from her so she can have it [...]
David Gill (of Total Dick-head) has a post up about visiting the Philip K. Dick Festival at io9. Wish I could have gone:
The smallish turnout consisted of uber-fans and scholars (mostly SF nerds now doing drugs only occasionally) who have been reading, studying, and fanning out on PKD since before he went big, fans [...]
There’s a sort-of over-intellectualization here about a writer who’s so visceral, but a nice interview between Erik Davis and Jonathan Lethem about Philip K. Dick.
Dick looked around his world with a kind of skinlessness. He existed in the world and it just permeated him. Mid-’50s America was overwhelmingly alive in his vision, in [...]
Cool documentary, worth watching. In pieces on Youtube.
Been meaning to link to this piece.
Dick knew that there had to be an FBI file on his activities because, as he told the Bureau in the letter requesting access to it: “In the early ’fifties, two agents of the FBI, Mr George Scruggs and Mr George Smith, [...]
Part 1 and 3.
(via Dangerous Minds)
This happened, been better published in France than the States:
Two nice responses to my book via email. Both come from people with the name Philip, which must have some sort of profound significance. Looking it up, Philip means “Horse lover,” but I knew that – ergo Horselover Fat = Philip K. Dick.
Incidentally I also received an email this week from Anne Dick, PK Dick’s [...]