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Philip K. Dick: a (very) short introduction
PKD (1928-1982) was an American scifi writer and a self-proclaimed "fictionalizing philosopher."
He wrote almost forty science fiction novels, over a hundred short stories and a few essays. He also kept a journal, his Exigesis, documenting and exploring his religious and visionary experiences.
The best way to really get to know PKD is to dive right in into his work. If you like, you could try one of the films based on his work first. But, imho, not one of those films comes close to breadth you'll find in his books.
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The ultimate PKD link list!
- www.philipkdick.com
- The official site of the PKD Trust. Here you can find exclusive content, like previously unpublished parts of PKD's Exigesis.
Also make sure to take a look at some of the wonderful cover-art of the PKD novels - www.philipkdickfans.com
- Great fan site where you can connect with other PKD fans using the forum
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick
- The wiki on PKD. Available in several languages.
- www.imdb.com
- Keep yourself updated on everything about PKD films. There are two upcoming films: Radio Free Albemuth (2008) and the biography The Owl in Daylight (2009).
- www.philipkdickaward.org
- The official website of the annual PKD award. Last year's winner was Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (2007).
- www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo
- The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by Robert Crumb based on VALIS.
- deoxy.org/pkd_how2build
- How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, a (never delivered?) speech PKD wrote in 1978.
- www.noapologiespress.com/others/pkd1
- Schizophrenia and The Book of Changes, a PKD essay. Taken from the book, The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick, editied by Lawrence Sutin. Vintage Edition, 1995.
- deoxy.org/pkd_tcs
- Tractates Cryptica Scriptura, taken from PKD's Exegesis.
- deoxy.org/plurifrm
- Pluriforms, taken from PKD's Exegesis.
- deoxy.org/gnosis10
- The Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation, taken from PKD's Exegesis.
- deoxy.org/gnosis11
- Outline in Abstract Form of a New Model of Reality Updating Historic Models, in Particular Those of Gnosticism and Christianity, again, taken from PKD's Exegesis
- www.pkdickbooks.com
- An other very good fan site. Make sure to visit the video and the philosophical writing sections!
- totaldickhead.blogspot.com
- The blog of PKD scholar David Gill
- www.techgnosis.com
- The website of PKD scholar Erik Davis. Here's one of his articles on PKD: Technomancer: An exhumed VLS piece on PKD
- gadir2k4.tripod.com/dickcionario
- Confused by some of the terms in PKD's book? Check this PKDictionary. Unfortunatly last updated in 1998.
- www.adherents.com/lit/sf_PKD
- PKD in Science Fiction. List of science fiction novels which contain references to Dick, or, in which he is a character.
- video.google.com
- Full length (57') version of Arena: A Day in the Afterlife of Philip K. Dick (BBC).
- yt_.gnn.tv/blogs/16984/A_Scanner_Darkly?
- A good fan tribute blog on GNN.
- homoplasmate.blogspot.com
- Fan blog. This site has more info about gnosticism. Make sure to check this out as well: Cosmogony and Cosmology by PKD, 1978.
PKD books on Amazon
The Philip K. Dick Collection
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Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
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The Philip K. Dick Reader
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Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
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Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of The 1960s / The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik (Library of America No. 173)
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Books about PKD on Amazon
What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations Of Philip K. Dick
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Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick
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I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick
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Philip K. Dick: Revised and Updated (Pocket Essential series)
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PKD DVDs on Amazon
A Scanner Darkly
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Blade Runner (Five-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition)
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Total Recall (Special Limited Edition)
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Total Recall 2070
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The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
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Become a PKD scholar!
If you know of any other academic work, please inform me!
- htwww.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov45
- Science Fiction Studies, #45 = Volume 15, Part 2 = July 1988, SPECIAL ISSUE: PHILIP K. DICK
- papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=650686
- Of Philip K. Dick, Reflexivity, and Shifting Realities: Organizing (Writing) in Our Post-Industrial Society by Christian De Cock, Swansea University
After introducing the problematic from the perspective of organisation studies - the growing awareness of the tenuous nature of organisational reality and the difficulty we have in constructing texts that deal with this tenuous reality in a reflexive way - I explore the key characteristics of Dick's novels and the essence of his writing techniques. This is followed by a discussion of Ubik to give the reader a flavour of a typical Dickean novel. I conclude with the logical, but rather too predictable, discussion of the importance of Dick for the field of organisation studies. Of course, it would be nonsensical to suggest that we can apply Dick in the way it has happened with Foucault, Derrida or Elias, but to name a few. Yet there is be something curiously attractive about an author who used the most trashy tropes of a genre (SF) to create a body of work that both transcends and invigorates that genre. Could this point to an analogue in organisation theory that might enable us to frame new possibilities of writing or reading organisational narratives? Perhaps. - www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=sca-917
- Online Literary Criticism Collection, Critical sites about A Scanner Darkly
- www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/bladerunner
- Study Guide for Philip K. Dick: Blade Runner (1968)
- paulwilliams.com/pkds
- PKDS - the Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter
Academic books about PKD on Amazon
(Anne R. Dick, by the way, was PKD's wife, that's why I included it here and not in the "Books about PKD" section)
Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer
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Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
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On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies
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If you like PKD, you might like this as well!
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scifi
- The wiki on science fiction.
- www.depauw.edu/sfs/index
- Science Fiction Studies is published three times a year (March, July, November) by SF-TH Inc. at DePauw University. The Science Fiction Studies Website publishes abstracts of all articles, as well as the full texts of all reviews, historical documents, and selected essays appearing in the journal since its founding in 1973 by R.D. Mullen. We normally maintain a one-year blackout before texts published in the journal appear on the website.
- 208.100.59.10/cgi-bin/index.cgi
- The ISFDB is a community effort to catalog works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and forthcoming books.
- www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_%28Bookshelf%29
- Free SciFi books on Project Gutenberg.
- www.baen.com/library/
- The Baen Free Library is a digital library of the science fiction and fantasy publishing house Baen Books where (as of February 2007) 94 full books are available for free download in a number of formats, without copy protection.
- wondersmith.com/scifi/index
- Free SciFi Classics and short stories.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
- The H.P. Lovecraft wiki. Also, check out the Cthulhu Mythos
- www.julianjaynes.org
- "At one time, human nature was split in two, an executive part called a god, and a follower part called a man. Neither part was Consciously aware." Read more about this here: Bicameralism (psychology).
- deoxy.org/tcrime
- Thoughtcrime for beginners.
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- kephrira kephrira Apr 17, 2008 @ 10:51 am
- Great lens; you beat me to it actually, I was going to make a lens on the same subject. He really was a great author, able to tell an enthralling story whilst at the same time having something to say which makes you think; I particularly like his short stories.
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