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Philip K. Dick's Divine Interference by Erik Davis Originally posted on the nettime server in the mid-1990s 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. As a Christian logo, the fish predates the cross, and its Piscean connotations of baptism and magical bounty (the miracle of loaves and fishes) reaches back to the time when the harshly persecuted cult secretly gathered in the catacombs of Alexandria. Ichthus, the Greek word for fish often inscribed within the symbol, is also a code, an acrostic of the phrase "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior." One apocryphal story claims that Christians would secretly test the spiritual allegiance of new acquaintances by casually drawing one curve of the fish on the ground. If their companion was "in the know," he or she would complete the fish shape.

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schedule of events events by track events by title events by location ... Add Your Event! The Multiple Myths of Philip K. Dick Guest event run by John Bestoso Time Saturday, January 26 beginning at 10:00 AM and running until Noon Location Sever 102 ( Guide to Locations Short Description Was Dick a mad visionary? Drug-crazed genius? Regular converser with God? Or PR stunt-creator run amok? Details As Philip K. Dick’s writing has gained popularity since his death, tales of his real life have threatened to overshadow his work. Yet many of the so-called facts are of very questionable provenance, constructions of biographers, book promoters and Dick himself. Through telling, retelling, and interpretation, the myths have, over time become his predominant media image. A Family Darkly: Love, Loss, and the Final Passions of Philip K. Dick, and David Gill of TotalDickHead.com explore the Gordian knot of the multiple myths of the writer’s life. How much fact is there in the biographies, and how much in the eye of the biographer? At this point, is possible for even those who knew Dick best to come up with a coherent narrative of his life? Availability HRSFA Log out

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skip to main skip to sidebar Total Dick-Head News, Analysis, and Philip K Dick-Related Info Kipple Chronicled by a PKD Scholar Tuesday, January 15, 2008 The Oracle Says, "You Want This Shirt" I love it when people send me stuff I can blog about. It makes all this so much easier. Today I got a great email from one Alejandro Zamudio who, along with a 'team of designers and fans of Philip K Dick,' have developed an 'electroluminescent shirt inspired by The Man in the High Castle.' Zamudio writes: "Recently we have created a prototype of an electroluminescent shirt inspired by The Man in the High Castle, by which dwellers of 1960s San Francisco can cast hexagrams from the Book of Changes and publicly display what the Oracle has said to them." The group's website reads: Note to the designers: Please ask the shirt how I might get one. I want! Posted by Ragle Gumm at 10:56 PM 2 comments My Date With 'Destiny in a Mini-Skirt' Above: Linda Levy in 1972. Photo by Philip K Dick 2008 is shaping up to be pretty good for me. First I get invited to speak at Harvard , then I end up having coffee this afternoon with the most famous of Dick's dark haired girls, Linda Levy. I started wondering today if perhaps I've died and gone to Dick-head heaven, but I was on my way to the CHP to take care of a fix-it ticket, so I decided I'm still here in the

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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick Eric Brown ; ISBN 0141186674. Dick's famous alternate history, perhaps his greatest novel, has now been reissued in the livery of Gollancz's popular 'SF Masterworks' series: specifically, as number three of a new hardback series of ten SF Greatest Hits. The text inside the covers is a straight mimeograph of the same battered old 1970s paperback edition that you probably have on your shelf (or if you don't and shame on you then its an edition you'll find easily enough in charity shops if you look with enough assiduity), although Chris Moore's cover-art is extremely nice, and the whole book is a pleasure to hold in the hand. (The new Penguin edition also uses the 1970s text-setting, although it includes a new introduction by Eric Brown - ed Gollancz are presumably banking on SF fans wanting certain classic novels in a more durable format, and this novel is precisely the sort of classic the true fan will want to own, to read and re-read.

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The Psychedelic Shakespeare Solution presents : I UNDERSTAND PHILIP K. DICK by Terence Mckenna Afterword which appeared in the book : In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis edited by Lawrence Sutin This raises some questions: Can we refer to a delusional system as a folie a' deux , if the deux Does the delusion of one visionary ecstatic validate the delusion of another? How many deluded, or illuminated ecstatics does it take to make a reality? PKD proved that it only takes one. But two is better. Wrong. Or rather, of course, sure. But that is not the point, the point is that I understand Philip K. Dick. I know that sounds like hubris and if I am wrong I am sorry (as*Phil says somewhere.) (as* PKD lived at 1126, then a few years later and for six months I lived at 1624.) But part of the delusional system in which I live contains and adumbrates the notion that I know what happened to the poor dude. We shared an affliction, a mania, sort of like Queequeg and Ishmael. And like one of those whale chasing sailors "I alone escaped to tell thee of it". Schizophrenia is not a psychological disorder peculiar to human beings. Schizophrenia is not a disease at all but rather a localized traveling discontinuity of the space time matrix itself. It is like a travelling whirl-wind of radical understanding that haunts time. It haunts time in the same way that Alfred North Whitehead said that the color dove grey "haunts time like a ghost."

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home about Philip K. Dick: Speaking with the Dead An "Interview" by Erik Davis After spending the bulk of his life cranking out pulp paperbacks for peanuts, the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick is now finally recognized as one of the most visionary authors the genre has ever produced. While masterminds like Arthur C. Clarke anticipated technological breakthroughs, Dick, whose speed-ravaged heart called it quits in 1982 when the man was only 53, foresaw the psychological turmoil of our posthuman lives, as we enter a world where machines talk back, virtual reality rules, and God is a product in the check-out line. Dick's fractured and darkly funny novels have left their mark on video games and rock bands, avant-garde theater and electronic opera. But his influence has been particularly profound in Hollywood. Ridley Scott turned Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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55. ARTICLE philip K dick’s very first published short story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” The release of a volume of four of philip K. dick’s 1960s novels earlier this http://www.articlejournal.net/issue_three/p_k_d.html

about search subscribe content ... audio/video THE THREE STIGMATA of PHILIP K. DICK Despite his recent canonization, mainstream critics still cast this American visionary as a poor writer, a drug addict, and a wacko. by David Gill According to its Web site, the Library of America is a nonprofit publishing house "dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America's best and most significant writing." Of course this begs the question how can anyone determine what exactly the "best and most significant writing" is, but let's put that aside for the moment. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as the "quasi-official national canon of American literature," the LoA has released authoritative volumes by Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams and many, many others. Dick's inclusion in the LoA is an incredible accomplishment for any writer, let alone a sci-fi writer who many critics have denounced as unreadable and unworthy of study. Upon hearing of the book's release, a sense of relief washed over me. No longer would I have to defend my serious scholarship of Dick's work, no longer would I have to justify assigning Dick's novels in college literature courses—finally I had some hard evidence to support my assertion that Dick was one of the most insightful and courageous philosophical writers of the 20th century. But my satisfaction was short-lived. A string of articles that announced Dick's arrival as a literary Golden Boy rehashed the same accusations he endured from critics for most of his life: clunky prose, recycled characters, creaky plots. Instead of celebrating Dick's long, prolific career and his incredible professionalism, these reviews chronicled the darkest moments in Dick's life and cataloged the long list of criticisms people have leveled at his writing. In a

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Boing Boing Home Gadgets TV Suggest a Link ... Joel Philip K. Dick robot Posted by David Pescovitz, June 23, 2005 9:30 AM permalink An android embodiment of surrealist SF author Philip K. Dick will be demonstrated at Wired's NextFest this weekend in Chicago. The Dick bot is a collaboration between Hanson Robotics Inc, the FedEx Institute of Technology's Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Automation and Robotics Research Institute at UTA, and Dick's friend Paul Williams. From the Hanson Robotics overview: The robot will portray Dick in both form and intellect through an artificial-intelligence-driven personality. The hardware will manipulate Hanson's proprietary lifelike skin material to affect extremely realistic expressions with very low power. Cameras in the eyes will allow the robot to perceive people's identity and behavior through advanced machine vision and biometric-identification software. The robot will track faces, perceive facial expressions, and recognize people from the crowd (family, friends, celebrities, etc). The visual data will be fused with some of the best speech recognition software, advanced natural language processing, and speech synthesis in the world. All of this will run in sync with Hanson Robotics' highly expressive robot face to emulate a full human-conversational system.

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Philip Kindred Dick December 16, 1928 (Chicago, Illinois) - March 2, 1982 (Santa Ana, California) Novels Dick, Philip K., Solar Lottery, Ace, New York, 1955. (aka World of Chance The World Jones Made, Ace, New York, 1956. The Man Who Japed, Ace, New York, 1956. Eye in the Sky, Ace, New York, 1957. The Cosmic Puppets, Ace, New York, 1957. Time Out of Joint, Lippincott, New York, 1959. Dr. Futurity, Ace, New York, 1960. Ace, New York, 1960. The Man in the High Castle, Putnam, New York, 1962. Hugo The Game-Players of Titan, Ace, New York, 1963. The Martian Time-Slip, Ballantine, New York, 1964. The Penultimate Truth, Belmont-Tower, New York, 1964. The Simulacra, Ace, New York, 1964. Clans of the Alphane Moon, Ace, New York, 1964. Dr. Bloodmoney; or, How We Got Along After the Bomb, Ace, New York, 1965. The Three Stimata of Palmer Eldritch, Doubleday, New York, 1965. Now Wait for Last Year, Doubleday, New York, 1966. The Crack in Space, Ace, New York, 1966. The Unteleported Man, Ace, New York, 1966. The Ganymede Takeover, Ace, New York, 1967. (with Ray Nelson)

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Science Fiction Studies # 5 = Volume 2, Part 1 = March 1975 Stanislaw Lem Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans Translated from the Polish by Robert Abernathy No one in his right mind seeks the psychological truth about crime in detective stories. Whoever seeks such truth will turn rather to Crime and Punishment . In relation to Agatha Christie, Dostoevsky constitutes a higher court of appeal, yet no one in his right mind will condemn the English author's stories on this account. They have a right to be treated as the entertaining thrillers they are, and the tasks Dostoevsky set himself are foreign to them. If anyone is dissatisfied with SF in its role as an examiner of the future and of civilization, there is no way to make an analogous move from literary oversimplifications to full-fledged art, because there is no court of appeal from this genre. There would be no harm in this, save that American SF, exploiting its exceptional status, lays claim to occupy the pinnacles of art and thought. One is annoyed by the pretentiousness of a genre which fends off accusations of primitivism by pleading its entertainment character and then, once such accusations have been silenced, renews its overweening claims. By being one thing and purporting to be another, SF promotes a mystification which, moreover, goes on with the tacit consent of readers and public. The development of interest in SF at American universities has, contrary to what might have been expected, altered nothing in this state of affairs. In all candor it must be said, though one risk perpetrating a crime

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skip to main skip to sidebar A Commonplace Book Deeds of Arms and Other Matters Medieval and Otherwise Saturday, September 22, 2007 So many Philip K. Dick movies. So few good ones Blade Runner Lathe of Heaven and Donnie Darko A Scanner Darkly Scanner Blade Runner Posted by Will McLean at 9:12 AM Labels: Movies Speculative Fiction 2 comments: Shalmestere said... Ummm, Lathe of Heaven was Ursula K. LeGuin :-) 1:38 PM Will McLean said... That was my point, Shalmestere. Lathe of Heaven (1980)was written by LeGuin. But that movie was much more Dickian in feel and tone than Total Recall or Paycheck. 4:07 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post ... Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Will McLean , and have written and illustrated several articles on the medieval tournament. This blog is mostly a platform for my other writing about the Middle Ages, and whatever else moves me: other history, movies, SF, space exploration, contemporary politics and economics. You can find my livejournal feed at Willscommonplac View my complete profile Labels Deeds of Arms Medieval Medieval Combat armor ... Armor vs. Weapons

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articletitle = 'Columns : Four Novels of the 1960s'; document.write(''); Shadowbridge The Quiet Girl The Commons Red Spikes ... The Yiddish Policemen's Union April 16, 2007 Excessive Candour The Bone Song of Philip K. Dick By John Clute The science behind science fiction suddenly makes sense, thanks to Hard SF novelist and working scientist Wil McCarthy. Hollywood insider Michael Cassutt takes us behind the scenes to reveal the struggle sci-fi goes through to get to your screen. Scott Edelman, Science Fiction Weekly's editor-in-chief, sounds off about everything and anything that matters in the sci-fi universe. In 2007, it might be best to remain tomb quiet and read the book and feel the song in the bones. Four Novels of the 1960s first appeared. It is a collection assembled by a neonate, and we shall see if it shows. The first title chosen, The Man in the High Castle (1962), is perhaps the one Dick book whose canonization in the Library of America could not rationally be avoided. High Castle is famous and should be; it won a Hugo, and should have; it was the first entirely Dickian novel to reach publication; it is just about the best Hitler Wins novel yet written; and by using the I Ching as a kind of magic-dice narration cage to control the moves of the tale, it steps alluringly sideways every time you think you've got it pinned. Nothing of interest about Lethem shows here, because the choice is inevitable.

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