You Don't Know Dick

PKD on Kindle, 14 books: 1.99 each

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:43:00 -0400

PKD on Kindle, 14 books: 1.99 each:

fuckyeahpkd: gnoth: oh my god! i want to be this graphic!...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:15:02 -0400

fuckyeahpkd:

gnoth:

oh my god! i want to be this graphic! :|

wow

hmhbooks: Available now, three gorgeous new rejackets of...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:14:53 -0400

hmhbooks:

Available now, three gorgeous new rejackets of classic Philip K. Dick novels. They join their friends and other rejackets here.

Our posters. About to head out into the wild. The full...

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:20:49 -0400

Our posters. About to head out into the wild.

The full production of 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick opens September 14 at the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company in downtown Pittsburgh.

The Philip K. Dick Movie Report Card

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:26:52 -0400

The Philip K. Dick Movie Report Card:

RYAN BRITT

Friday will see the release of a new Total Recall, which aims to erase our memories of another movie called Total Recall. Do films remember other films wholesale? Or do films dream of electric films? In either case, it remains to be seen if Total Recall is a cinematic imposter of a Philip K. Dick story or is instead just the second variety of a well-worn 90’s action movie.

In the meantime, join me as I turn my scanner, darkly, toward all of the films made from Philip K. Dick’s work and try to figure out which of them are quality movies and which actually have something in common with the source material. I’ll give each movie two letter grades: one for being a good or bad movie and one for being faithful to the source material. (Note: faithful doesn’t always mean just following the plot, but capturing the themes and essence as well.)

Read the full article on Tor.com.

Solving the "Blade Runner" mystery - the backstory for Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:17:33 -0400

Solving the "Blade Runner" mystery - the backstory for Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?":

Last month, Lawrence Downes reviewed David F. Dufty’s How to Build an Android in the New York Times Book Review. The book is the story of an android designed to look and talk like famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Downes writes:

But the character who ends up being most intriguing is poor nonhuman Phil, whose unknown destiny gives the book a tinge of sorrow. Tied as he is to the life and words of a deeply troubled and testy namesake, he can be churlish at times, giving snotty answers to simple questions. A Wall Street Journal writer said of Phil, “The most advanced robot on exhibition was also, in my view, the most obnoxious.”

That’s hardly surprising. But one mystery is why Phil’s creators never gave him an answer to a question you would expect anyone to ask Philip K. Dick. It’s the title of the story that inspired Blade Runner: Do androids dream of electric sheep?

That prompted this letter to the editor of the book review from Off-Ramp commentator Marc Haefele, who has a long and wonderful resume which includes editing Dick back in the day.

To the Editor:

Lawrence Downes, in his review of David F. Dufty’s How to Build an Android, wonders how the Philip K. Dick android would have answered the question posed by the book title Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I can tell you exactly what the real Philip K. Dick would have said: “I don’t know. It wasn’t my original title.”

The original title of the manuscript I received as Phil’s editor at Doubleday & Company, around the end of 1967, was Do Androids Dream? I felt the title was a little too paperback sci-fi sounding. So I proposed to my superior, Lawrence Ashmead, that the book be called The Electric Sheep. He suggested the compromise that appeared on the published hardcover the following year. Phil did not object.

Looking back, I think Do Androids Dream? was a better title.

This week on Off-Ramp, Marc reviews the Getty’s Klimt exhibit, debunking the snob who labeled Klimt a “kitschmaster.”

flippydoodle: Philip K. Dick: “The appropriate response to...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:28:10 -0400

flippydoodle:

Philip K. Dick: “The appropriate response to reality is to go insane.” Quote poster by Evan Robertson. You can buy prints here (Etsy). View more here.

BBC: "Blade Runner: Which predictions have come true?"

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:56:55 -0400

BBC: "Blade Runner: Which predictions have come true?":

Time: Blade Runner at 30: Celebrating Ridley Scott's Dystopian Vision

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:52:38 -0400

Time: Blade Runner at 30: Celebrating Ridley Scott's Dystopian Vision :

Whatculture: "5 Best Philip K Dick Film Adaptations"

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:27:29 -0400

Whatculture: "5 Best Philip K Dick Film Adaptations":

NYT: Talking Head ‘How to Build an Android,’ by David F. Dufty

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:26:20 -0400

NYT: Talking Head ‘How to Build an Android,’ by David F. Dufty:

“How to Build an Android” is the honest title of an earnest book, the first by David F. Dufty, a senior research officer at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It explains how a team of researchers at the University of Memphis collaborated in 2005 with an artist and robotics expert, David Hanson, to create what was then the most sophisticated android anywhere, a replica of the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick…

"The stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious creation and loss of an artificially intelligent..."

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:00:30 -0400

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The stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

In late January 2006, a young robotocist on the way to Google headquarters lost an overnight bag on a flight somewhere between Dallas and Las Vegas. In it was a fully functional head of the android replica of Philip K. Dick, cult science-fiction writer and counterculture guru. It has never been recovered.

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- How to Build an Android (Excerpt on Tor.com)

explore-blog: Science fiction has slowly and ineluctably...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:01:30 -0400

explore-blog:

Science fiction has slowly and ineluctably settled into a monotonous death: it has become inbred, derivative, stale. Suddenly you people have come in, some of the greatest talents currently in existence, and now we have a new life, a new start. As for my own role in the BLADE RUNNER project, I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are justified and completed by BLADE RUNNER. Thank you..and it is going to be one hell of a commercial success. It will prove invincible.

In 1981, after seeing a bit of Blade Runner on TV, Philip K. Dick wrote a letter to producer Jeff Walker.

(↬ Coudal)

Photo

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:06:30 -0400

Photo

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:28:31 -0400

For your viewing pleasure, a picture of PKD with a sheep. I...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:29:44 -0400

For your viewing pleasure, a picture of PKD with a sheep. I cannot confirm the electricness of said sheep, however.

You Don’t Know Dick: Brief Encounters with Philip K. Dick...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:20:00 -0400

You Don’t Know Dick: Brief Encounters with Philip K. Dick opens tonight. If you’re in the Pittsburgh area, grab your tickets online and save a few bucks.

2012 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:04:28 -0400

2012 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced

lunatickling: - Philip Kindred Dick

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 08:05:04 -0400

lunatickling:

- Philip Kindred Dick

Book trailer for The Exegesis.

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:01:02 -0400

Book trailer for The Exegesis.