Some P. K. Dick lore, monographs and such
At ttbooks.org, including programs on (npr) To the Best of our Knowledge. Such as:
See also: Total Recall re. his residence in These Parts:
There's a lot to find out about this Rare One. And we won't be able to find out enough to grok-to-Fullness, it seems.
(Sure fucking-BEATS finding out even One More ugly Factoid about the Orange Short-fingered Vulgarian, I wot;
temporary immersion in PKD actually erases that foul taste whenever noting the presence of that Pestilence ..for a time.)
Bon appetít.
Anne R. Dick
... Anne R. Dick was the third wife of the late Philip K. Dick. She was a pioneer in the American Crafts movement and her bronze ...
Doug Gordon - 2017-09-27 13:30
Umberto Rossi
... and comics studies. He has published a monograph on Philip K. Dick's fiction, The Twisted World of Philip K. Dick (McFarland 2011), ...
Doug Gordon - 2017-09-29 14:40
Jonathan Lethem
... read the complete works of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Lethem later said Dick’s work was "as formative an influence ...
Mark Riechers - 2017-09-27 13:36
David Gill
Philip K. Dick Scholar, Writer, Lecturer David Gill has been a devoted ...
Doug Gordon - 2017-09-27 14:44
See also: Total Recall re. his residence in These Parts:
How Philip K. Dick's North Bay experiences influenced his work
BY ERIK JORGENSEN
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Philip K. Dick is the van Gogh of science fiction writers, striding the hazy line between genius and insanity. PKD, as his fans call him, never lived to see his writing transformed into such blockbuster films as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau and A Scanner Darkly. North Bay fans of his stories should know that he lived in the area, and his time here shows up in his work.
When Dick died in 1982 at age 53, his New York Times obituary described him as a "prolific, sometimes visionary science-fiction writer, whose multilayered stories probed the discrepancies between illusion and reality." While bureaucratic absurdities are Kafkaesque and governmental overreach is Orwellian, in the world Dick created, reality itself conspires against you.
Dick never lived to see the amazing and lasting legacy his labors gave birth to, but it's intriguing to follow his path through the North Bay to see how it influenced his skewed literary visions. Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago and grew up in Berkeley. He began visiting Sonoma County as a child and lived in Sonoma at 550 Chase St. with Joan Simpson in the summer of 1977.
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There's a lot to find out about this Rare One. And we won't be able to find out enough to grok-to-Fullness, it seems.
(Sure fucking-BEATS finding out even One More ugly Factoid about the Orange Short-fingered Vulgarian, I wot;
temporary immersion in PKD actually erases that foul taste whenever noting the presence of that Pestilence ..for a time.)
Bon appetít.