philip k dick C/D, S+D

i look at this as a a companion to that jack spicer anthology

I love Man In The High Castle forever and always.

this is amazing

never seen such a great PKD bio before. Fake "PKD" ads featuring Terry Gilliam and Elvis Costello, commentary from Aldiss, Disch, Powers, wives and friends interviewed etc

I just looked that for a second. Who is doing the narration, the guy from In The Heights?

I have no idea. assume this was some BBC thing

seems like the only PKD confidante that doesn't make an appearance is KW Jeter

got to the credits at the end. readings are credited to ... Greg Proops?! random.

!!! thanks for posting Shakey, I will check this out immediately.

Yup, Greg Proops is the narrator. I think this thing was made about 94-95, which is prime Whose Line era.

http://www.philipkdick.com/images/new_letters_walker-bladerunn.jpg

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-1/

And continuing

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/philip-k-dick-sci-fi-philosopher-part-2/

Sad news that Dick's first literary executor (before that, founder of Crawdaddy) Paul Williams has passed. As noted, he had never been then same after his bicycling accident and injury, but what an amazing legacy to have left behind, the cultural enthusiast as key figure in ensuring further attention for that which he loved.

The World Jones Made is fantastic, just so's you know

Just finished Ubik, very good

The Crack in Space is so great

the upcoming Simpsons Lego ep seems to have more to do with a PKD story than Lego:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGSpOfIr9Y

well, right you are. books on the bookshelf:

sort my pieces the policefig said
do minifigs dream of plastic sheep
beyond lies the nub
a scanner blockly

Should I get ebook of The Crack In Space, which is on sale today?

I see that calstars is a fan.

I only read it once, but remember it as one of his chuck-it-out-in-a-week-for-the-money jobs, along with Vulcan's Hammer and a couple of others. There are better PKD books really.

Crack started out slowly but then took an insane left turn that carried it through to the end. The book is enjoyable as both as both scifi and also as a commentary on race.

If it's cheap, why not? I like his pulp books a lot tho

I'm reading the Simulacra now, which at about 1/3 through has yet to hit its stride.

Btw if you live in New York, most of his stuff is available as free e-book loans from the public library.

Hm. They all say "0 Availability on 0 Copies." Maybe the system is down.

http://io9.com/last-nights-lego-simpsons-episode-was-filled-with-phili-1571977258

20 years ago I would have maybe thought that was funny

lol at the absence of pun in 'we can build you'

The Simulacra not one of his strongest works. Bit of a hodgepodge of things from his other novels

Lies, inc. takes place in 2014, so it has that going for it

Man In the High Castle on Amazon?!?!?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSI5EHQ/ref=dv_dp_ep1

Apparently this just got released like five minutes ago or something....

Talk about zero pre-release fanfare.

bodes well

Sounds awesome.

Hopefully there's at least one entire episode devoted to a character trying to make sense of an I Ching reading

i've been on another PKD kick recently, but this time in combination with an emmanuel carrere kick. i read carrere's The Adversary (wonderful book) which led me to go ahead and check out his other stuff. currently reading the mustache, which is heavily influenced by PKD (a man shaves his mustache and then his wife claims that he never had a mustache, leading to mounting psychological agony, paranoid conspiracy theories, sleeping pills, identify confusion, mindwarping, etc), and then realized that carrere wrote a biography of PKD (I am alive and you are dead). i'm still in the first 1/3 of the biography but i love it so far. a lot of carrere's writing exists in a weird zone between fiction and nonfiction, and his biography is no exception. i could see how some people looking for a comprehensive factual account of his life wouldn't like it, but i think it's a fine way to approach a person like PKD - i feel like PKD would approve.

i also recently acquired the exegesis but it's gonna be a while before i get around to it and i'm not sure i'll ever even partly understand it anyway.

"I Am Alive and You Are Dead" is great, probably the best Dick "biography" there is. Although it does ultimately make him out to be a rather sad figure imo.

not really interested in the exegesis myself

Ditto on all three comments.

anybody else watch it?

I'm fairly split. The visuals and world-building, top notch and no expenses spared -- the dialog and acting, almost unwatchably stiff, and the changes they've made to make sure the series can potentially keep going past the framework of the book are all painfully conventional. Watching this actively clouded my memories of the details in the book. But then I went online and saw 800+ four to five star reviews afterwards which was a very PKD kind of experience so it all worked out

This weekend I will but not yet.

milton it's good to know which parts of my critical brain I need to tamp down in advance. I can just about get by on mere world-building I think.

I feel cheated when characters act contrary to their ultimate convictions WHEN ALONE

This has been greenlit by Amazon for a full series.

I liked this. I probably should re-read the book now.

What if the show is the REAL 'Man in the High Castle'??

We'll know if Lady Stoneheart never appears oh wait

only one way to find out - let's ask the i-ching xp

i may come off as a total novice but ... what exactly happens at the end of The Man In The High Castle (the book)? I've always been confused (which may be part of the point).

it's been a while, but don't the main characters get confirmation from the i-ching that they're living in a false/parallel universe and the universe from the book-within-a-book is the real one?