21. Philip K Dick A bibliography of philip K dick s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/philip-k-dick/

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22. The SF Site: Philip K. Dick Reading List The SF Site s 10 part reading list, primarily based on the Vintage reprints. http://www.sfsite.com/lists/pkd11.htm

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928. While attending UC at Berkeley, he dropped out rather than take ROTC training. There he stayed to write some 36 novels and 5 short story collections. He won the 1962 Hugo for The Man in the High Castle and the 1974 John W. Campbell Award for Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said . He died of heart failure caused by a stroke in 1982. Philip K. Dick Links Philip K. Dick site Philip K. Dick site Philip K. Dick site Philip K. Dick site ... The Philip K. Dick Mailing List Philip K. Dick Reading List Installments Novels A Maze Of Death (1970) Fourteen strangers come to Delmark-O, thirteen by the usual method and the other by praying. Once there, they all find that even praying is useless, for it is a place where the very atmosphere is steeped in paranoia and psychosis. It appears that God is either absent from Delmark-O or bent on destroying His creations in this metaphysical thriller. A Scanner Darkly (1977) Bob Arctor deals a lethal, addictive drug called Substance D. Fred is a cop assigned to tail and to bust him. To do so, he goes undercover as a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. He's addicted to his wares, the principal effect of which is to split the brain into two distinct, combative entities. Fred doesn't realize that he is after himself. Clans Of The Alphane Moon (1964) Here is posed a disquieting question of where sanity ends and madness begins. Who among us is qualified to make such a judgement. The small, habitable moon was once an insane asylum. It's patients, abandoned long ago, formed clans based on their different psychoses. The result is a bizarre parody of our own society. This fragile equation becomes unbalanced when Earth and the alien Alphanes vie for control of the moon's resources.

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PHILIP K DICK SEO Consultant Big Bill's PKD Stuff! (He wrote "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" that they based 'Total Recall' on, don't you know!) check out the PKD swicki at eurekster.com Buy PKD Books Through My Amazon Links! U.S.A. U.K. PARANOID CHICAGO ... CHRONOLOGY BY PUBLICATION Philip K. Dick is one of a handful of science fiction writers whose work is known beyond the sci-fi world. Philip K Dick's most famous book is possibly "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", which was filmed by Ridley Scott as "Blade Runner" in 1982. Philip K Dick's most lasting work, though, may well turn out to be "The Man in the High Castle", which depicts a world after Germany and Japan have won the Second World War. For collectors there is a very interesting body of work to acquire, plus the opportunity to purchase many of Philip K Dick's titles at still reasonable prices. Be warned, though, several of Philip K Dick's scarcer titles are very expensive indeed! During his short but productive life, Philip K. Dick acquired a cult following as one of America's most original science fiction writers. Since his sudden death from a stroke in 1982 (he was just 53 years old), his many admirers have sought to promote the importance of Dick's work. Throughout his life his work was critically acclaimed and sold regularly if not extensively, but since his death that acclaim has grown. More importantly, though, his audience has widened far beyond the confines of the science fiction fraternity and many new readers have discovered Dick, particularly following the posthumous publication of his previously unpublished mainstream novels such as "Puttering About in a Small Land".

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26. Philip K. Dick Biography An exploration of the relationship of dick s mystical experiences and his fiction with the Gnostic religious tradition. http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/pkd.biography.html

T HE G NOSIS A RCHIVE Gnostic Studies on the Web GNOSIS ARCHIVE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY Date: 01 Apr 94 15:52 EST To: RYDEEN.PAUL@forum.va.gov, pkd-list@wang.com [For those who may have missed it the first time, here is a copy of an article I wrote last year. It originally was published in Crash Collusion magazine, no. 5. Copies may be had for $4 from Box 49233, Austin, TX 78765. Issue 7 is due very soon, and features an article by Adam Gorightly called "PKD, the Unicorn, and Soviet Psychotronics". It's also $4. For those of you who saw this article last time I posted it, note that this is a cleaned-up copy with all scanning errors and typos removed. Feel free to distribute it elsewhere. As always, your comments are welcome.] Philip K. Dick: The Other Side Paul Rydeen ... the group had taken an active interest in their situation, viewing it as a manifestation on an earthly plane of certain super-terrestrial forces. - Jack Isidore (1) My first exposure to the mind-bending fiction of Philip K. Dick was in early 1981. It must have been January or February because I remember it still being quite cold. To my surprise, a friend of my dad's had given him a recent issue of Playboy, which I eagerly perused whenever I had the chance. On one such occasion I needed to prove to myself a maturity beyond the pictures of naked ladies, so I commenced to read the magazine's various features. It turned out to be the December 1980 issue; one feature was Phil's story "Frozen Journey" (2). Although this high-school senior had been reading science fiction for a decade or more, I must confess I was confused by the shifting realities portrayed in "Frozen Journey". Further readings did little for my comprehension.

27. PKDS - The Philip K Dick Society Newsletter The philip K. dick Society was active from 1983 to 1992, during which time 30 issues of the philip K. dick Society Newsletter were published. http://paulwilliams.com/pkds.html

Paul Williams' Home Page How to order these zines PKDS - the Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter The Philip K. Dick Society was active from 1983 to 1992, during which time 30 issues of the Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter were published. All of these back issues are now available , in printed form, not on-line. They are sold in "packages" (often 4 issues, sometimes bound together). The average issue is 16 pages, some are longer, one is a cassette tape. Most include rare material by PKD. Every issue contains a long and very informative news column on PKD-related matters. Editor: Paul Williams, former Literary Executor of the Estate of Philip K. Dick. Issue #17 How to get PKDS Newsletters: Under each heading below, you will find descriptions of each PKDS package. To order any of these, or a full set, click on the link at the top or bottom of this page. There you will have the option of ordering online, or of printing the order form and sending payment by snail mail to: PKDS, Box 232517, Encinitas CA 92023 USA. If you have any questions, email

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Home Discuss Advertise Archives ... Subscribe! 11 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Movies and Counting January 9th, 2008 25 Comments Movie News Movie Posters Movie-related Philip Kindred Dick, aka Philip K. Dick, aka PKD, was often considered a science fiction writer that was way ahead of his time. He was critically acclaimed and won several writing awards, but was not particularly successful commercially for most of his career. Much of his writing was dystopic and unnerving, but filmmakers have found a fair bit of commercial success with film adaptations of his writing, starting with Blade Runner. (PKD died during the production.) expect her to go down on you in the theater 1. Blade Runner (1982) Director : Ridley Scott. Writers Release Date : Jun 25, 1982. Actors : Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah. IMDB Blade Runner Video : Final Cut trailer. 2. Total Recall (1990) Director : Paul Verhoeven. Writers Release Date : Jun 1, 1990 Actors : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone. IMDB Total Recall 3. Screamers (1995)

29. Study Guide For Philip K. Dick: Blade Runner (1968) Chapterby-chapter commentary on the book originally titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/bladerunner.html

Study Guide for Philip K. Dick: Blade Runner Using this Guide List of other study guides Doing Science Fiction research? Check out the Science Fiction Research Bibliography. Looking for information on the film? Try the Blade Runner Online Magazine Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 4 ... Chapter 22 Philip K. Dick is one of the crucial figures in modern science fiction. He was too prolific for his own good, churning out dozens of novels for cheap paperback publication, often in such haste that their conclusions tend to be their weakest part. He was obsessive, disorganized, and in his later years paranoid. Yet his conceptions were often brilliant, and he has come to be looked on as one of the masters, though only a small fraction of his work is in print at any one time. His titles are often wonderfully surrealistic, as in the striking Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said ; and Blade Runner was originally titled (for reasons that will become apparent as you read it) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. When Ridley Scott made his 1982 film based loosely on the novel he eliminated the electric sheep (along with much else), and Dick's title no longer made sense (nor would it have been very effective on a marquee). The film company bought the rights to another novel by a different author and threw away everything but the title

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31. Philip K. Dick: A Sage Of The Future Whose Time Has Finally Come - New York Time The author’s best books distinguish themselves from ordinary science fiction by focusing not on technology, but on the toll that technological advances http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/opinion/08fri4.html

@import url(http://graphics.nytimes.com/css/common/screen/article.css); var google_hints = "Science+Fiction,Books+and+Literature,Library+of+America"; var google_ad_channel = "ar_opinion"; Skip to article Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now ... Times Topics Opinion All NYT Opinion World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... Autos Editorial Observer Philip K. Dick: A Sage of the Future Whose Time Has Finally Come Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print By BRENT STAPLES Published: June 8, 2007 Philip K. Dick was still an obscure pulp novelist known mainly to teenage boys when a friend predicted that he would one day have more impact on the world than celebrated writers like William Faulkner, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. The prediction seemed almost delusional in the 1960s, when Dick was popping pills around the clock and churning out novels in a science fiction ghetto from which he seemed destined never to escape. He did get out, but only posthumously. And with his recent celebration as the sage of futurism, and his pervasiveness on bookshelves and in Hollywood, the early predictions about the growth of his influence have come to seem prescient. Dick was largely unknown to the general public at the time of his death in 1982. Most of his novels and short stories were out of print and seemed destined to stay that way. Things began to change after his favorite and best written novel, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” was introduced to the country in the form of the now classic movie “Blade Runner.”

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Philip K. Dick: biography, bibliography, filmography, links INTERNAL LINKS Essay: More Human Than Human Philip K Dick interviews amazon uk books L. Frank Baum ... site map "Reality is that which when you stop believing in it... doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick, VALIS The "Truth" About Philip K. Dick A schizophrenic man named Philip K. Dick turned his hallucinations about the universe into a writing career. A schizophrenic universe turned its hallucinations into a man named Philip K. Dick. A hallucinogen wanted a writing career and turned Philip K. Dick into a universe. A hallucination named Philip K. Dick turned his writing career into the universe. A dick turned its schizophrenic hallucinations into a man named Philip K. Universe. The truth is none of those things. The truth is all of those things. The truth is some of those things. Biographical Notes For Philip K. Dick Philip Kendred Dick and Jane Kendred Dick were born in Chicago on December 16 th , 1928. Dick's fraternal twin, Jane, died 41 days later. At age 1 his family moved to Berkeley, California

33. Philip K. Dick And Human Kindness Discusses the centrality of ethical themes in dick s writing. http://www.spectacle.org/396/scifi/dick.html

Philip K. Dick and Human Kindness I have never been able to stand the self-conscious novelist, who teaches university for a living and delivers one Great American novel a year. Self-reverential and -referential, this individual bleeds "literature" to the exclusion of anything unconscious and true. Opposed to this is the natural, the idiot savant, the desperate man who has no idea that he is writing anything memorable, the madman whose pulp fiction is half garbage and half genius. This was Philip K. Dick, who started and ended his career writing cheap Ace paperbacks, who did too many drugs and left too many marriages and died at age 53, but whose writing has a quality of unexpected wild insight that guarantees he will be remembered. He is best known as the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , which was filmed, not very faithfully, as Blade Runner . The originalwhich would have made a better, but less popular, movie if filmed exactly as written is among the best of Dick's explorations of the question: What is human? Dick took too many hallucinogenic drugs in his lifetime, and they undid him. There is a very funny, yet very grave scene in

34. Philip K. Dick : Ubik : Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? : Book Review Read a review of Ubik and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by philip K. dick. http://www.mostlyfiction.com/scifi/dick.htm

skip to: page content links on this page site navigation footer (site information) Mostly Fiction BOOK REVIEWS all authors all titles newsletter home ... Author Info Philip K. Dick Author's Bibliography Book Marks About the Author MOSTLYFICTION.COM BOOKSHELF: Beyond Reality NEXT AUTHOR ... Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy READ MORE ... Rudy Rucker : The Hacker and the Ants Tony Millionaire: Billy Hazelnuts More Philip K. Dick novels! If you find this site helpful please consider recommending it to your friends or place a link at your site to MostlyFiction.com Thank you for Supporting MostlyFiction.com! " Ubik " (Reviewed by Judi Clark JUL 4, 1999) It's interesting to read a futuristic Science Fiction novel that was written in 1969 and takes place in 1992. Normally, I would expect it to distract the story line, but instead I found it entertaining. In Ubik , Dick imagines a future in which all appliances in a conapt (condominium apartment?), even the front door, require coin deposits to function. This makes for some humorous situations for our lead character, Joe Chip, who never has a nickel to his name. Joe works for Runciter Associates as a tester of people with anti-talents. These are services offered against precogs (people who predict and manipulate the future), telepaths and various other parapsycological talents. Runciter is run by Glen Runciter and his twenty-year old wife, Ella, who is in "half-life" status. Technically she is dead, but through means of modern technology, Glen can still talk to her and ask her advice on the business. Speaking of business, it has been poor lately, so Runciter jumps at an opportunity that will employ eleven of his best talents on the off-world of Luna. When they arrive on Luna, a bomb goes off and luckily, it seems, that only Runciter is killed. He is rushed into cold-pac and brought to the same Swiss Moratorium as his wife. Joe hopes that they act quick enough to establish communications with Runciter, or else Joe is on his own to run the business. (This is the same guy that never has a nickel...) Meanwhile there are some very strange things happening to Joe and this group of talents.

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Subscribe Renew Give a Gift Change Address ... WIRED Science Top Stories Magazine Wired Blogs All Wired Main Speed Racer's Underlined: Radiohead, Obama, the Philip K. Dick Award Finalists By Allison Roeser Categories: Current Affairs Radiohead: (Maybe) Coming to a City Near You, Somewhere, Sometime (Pitchfork Media) Radiohead is taking an alternate approach to confirming their upcoming North American tour by dropping bits of information here and there. Most recently they released a list of the 22 cities they plan to grace, but venues, dates and ticket prices remain veiled. Will Smith Thinks Your Personality Could Be Lacking in Scientology (OH NO THEY DIDN'T!) Upon the wrapping of the film “Hancock,” Will Smith was seen doling out cards for personality tests at local Scientology centers to the crew. If the crew members aren’t already so over the thrill of working with celebrities every day, a trip to the local ‘tology center with friends and family could soon replace maps of stars’ homes as a fun way to kill an afternoon. Back to the Day Job for Stewart and Colbert The New York Times In case you missed it, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to work last night, determined to make it through their 22-minute tapings without writers. The results were satisfactory, though Colbert’s already warped on-air personality adapted to the situation with a little more ease.

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@import url(http://www.engadget.com/media/style.css); What's happening at Sundance? Tip us on news! RSS Feed Category Feeds Engadget in: Philip K. Dick robot flees offworld Posted Feb 13th 2006 4:28PM by Marc Perton Filed under: Robots Replicants, they call them. Created for offworld work. When one of them goes missing, they call me in. But this one's different. Created in the likeness of Philip K. Dick by Hanson Robotics. Vanished suddenly. Missing for weeks. No one knows what happened. But the story is that some museum called the Smithsonian wanted to put him in a box and display him around the country. Not something a replicant would want. I suspect this one has already found some like-minded supporters who will attempt to keep it offworld indefinitely. Too bad he won't live. But then again, who does? Read Permalink Email this Comments ... Subscribe to these comments Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1) Neutral RICE Feb 13th 2006 4:45PM They found uncle ED. Reply Neutral san Feb 13th 2006 4:46PM Oh that was inspired Marc. Reply Neutral Tom Feb 13th 2006 4:51PM Nice homage to Blade Runner.

37. Philip K. Dick Biography (Writer) — Infoplease.com Biography of philip K. dick, Mindbending sci-fi author. http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/philipkdick.html

Site Map FAQ in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Spelling Checker Daily Almanac for Jan 26, 2008 Search White Pages Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites 2007 Year in Review Black History Month Leap Year Martin Luther King Day ... 2008 Calendar Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips Philip K. Dick Writer Born: 16 December 1928 Died: 2 March 1982(heart failure) Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois Best known as: Mind-bending sci-fi author Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific science fiction author who ditched bug-eyed monsters and spacemen to explore the nature of reality and paranoia on a cosmic scale. In spite of winning a Hugo Award for his 1962 novel The Man in the High Castle , Dick was largely unknown until 1982, when his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was made into the film Blade Runner (directed by RIdley Scott and starring Harrison Ford and Daryl Hannah ). After his death Dick's work found a new audience, and the "mainstream" novels of his early career (ignored at the time) were finally published. Among his best-known novels are Martian Time-Slip Ubik (1969) and Valis Extra credit: Dick was married five times... His friend, K.W. Jeter, has written two sequels to

38. Philip Dick-Brad Steiger Sometime after the book s publication, I received a letter from philip K. dick, who told me that he suspected that he was such an individual as those whom I http://www.mysterious-america.net/philipdick-brads.html

By Brad Steiger In my book Gods of Aquarius: UFOs and the Transformation of Man [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976], I introduced the concept of the Star People, individuals who feel that they bear within their genes awareness acquired by extraterrestrial interaction with humans in prehistoric or ancient times and who have now been activated by DNA memory to fulfill a mission in assisting others in their spiritual and evolutionary advancement. Revelation: The Divine Fire (Prentice-Hall, 1973). A feminine voice told him that this book would help him to understand what was occurring to him. He was also told by the voice to get in touch with me. Although Dick said that he did read the book and that he did receive the requisite information and comfort that he was promised during the vision, he was reluctant to contact me until he read of my research with those individuals whom I had given the name of Star People. Dick said that he was about to publish a novel ( Valis, 1981) that would advance numerous similar concepts. Dick explained phylogenic memory as complex DNA information packets distributed in dormant form: his civilization; 3) His true nature and faculties; 4) What he must do.

39. Philip K. Dick's Future Is Now (washingtonpost.com) What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th Century, philip K. dick is to the second half, wrote Maus author Art Spiegelman. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A6396-

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2019: Off-World presents Philip K. Dick: Reason, Mind, and Being Roger D. Cook ( rogercook@qwest.com This was what happened to all the things that came out of the wet earth, out of the filthy slime and mold. All things that lived, big and little. They appeared, struggling out of the sticky wetness. And then, after a time, they died. Philip K. Dick Fragment from the unfinished novel: Gather Yourselves Together Preliminary considerations of what kind of traits an android might possess are often discussed by proponents of artificial intelligence in questions of philosophy, and linguistics. Philosophy of the mind is concerned with what the brain is construction of as a basis for how to understand how the brain behaves in relation to external causation, neophysical states and various psychological interpretations of mental activity. Philosophers often categorize theories of the mind into materialism, dualism, and functionalism. In order to elucidate the various possible positions taken by P.K.D. I will discuss each of these in turn. Materialism is the view that the mind is simply a phenomena that is not separated from the brain. The brain is governed by the laws of physics and biology. Materialists believe these two fields can give us the answers of how the mind works and consequently how we act. The materialist's central claim is that the brain and our actions are influenced only by chemicals and the firing of neurons. In short, the material of the brain can have causal power over the material of the world. This view is often espoused by the behavioral psychologists like John Watson and B.F. Skinner. In his article on the mind/body problem philosopher Jerry Fodor puts it this way: "All the talk of mental causes can be eliminated from the language of psychology and philosophy in favor of talk of environmental stimuli and behavioral responses" (p. 114). This material interpretation of brain states makes the problem of causation easy for the materialists to explain.

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