Philip K. Dick Fan Site

David Hyde (Lord Running Clam) and Henri Wintz are close to publishing their PKD bibliography, PRECIOUS ARTIFACTS: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, USA and UK Editions, 1955-2012. What promises to be an amazing accomplishment and update to all previous biographies is scheduled to be published in June. They have also launched a Kickstarter project in support of this book and you can pledge there and receive one of their great rewards. And also started a Facebook page where they discuss the book and their progress towards publication in June 2012. To help spread the word, please ‘like’ and ‘share’ their book on your networks.

Home Page: www.PKDickbooks.com/precious_artifacts.html
Kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/495272397/precious-artifacts-a-pictorial-philip-k-dick-bibli
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A new issue of PKD Otaku has been published. You can view it here: PKD Otaku Issue 24 or view past issues.

Please be patient after clicking on the link for this issue. The file is large and requires more time to download. An alternative would be to save the file to your computer and read the issue from there.

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This book is an excellent academic study of the theme of religion in the works of Philip K. Dick. The book is a slim volume and could have been much longer but you still get your money’s worth from the amount of analysis and information crammed into those pages.

The book is divided into three sections which consist of Dick’s writings view from a religious point of the view in three areas of his career. His early writing is covered along with his middle and later (VALIS) years are extensively reviewed and analyzed. I felt that the work covered the topic extremely well and I learned not only about Dick’s work but about religion.

The text was published several years ago so it might be a little difficult to get a hold of but the price might turn some readers off. If you are interested in a religious analysis of the works of Philip K. Dick, I believe this one is the only one out there and it is very well written.

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I sense something brewing with the issue of incorrectly managed copyright renewals and Public Domain Philip K. Dick stories. We have already seen the news about the producers refusing to finish paying for the rights to Adjustment Team and there are eleven stories that have been put into Project Gutenberg that I have archived on this site also. These facts appear to be generally known.

At SFFaudio.com there have been two articles that makes me believe first that they are researching the topic and second that there are many other short stories that are now in the Public Domain that few people realize. Their article Commentary: Philip K. Dick’s PUBLIC DOMAIN short stories, novelettes and novellas is the most stunning for me. The article details the status of each story and I count twenty-six in the Public Domain with seven more likely.

Another article,Copyfraud by the Philip K. Dick estate for Philip K. Dick stories published in 1954 and 1955, color codes a copyright form and most of the stories are listed to be in publications or issues that they do not appear in. The vividness of this image jumps out at the reader.

This is the list of incorrect entries:

1. Shell Game
2. James P. Crow
3. The Golden Man
4. Small Town
5. Survey Team
6. Foster, You’re Dead!
7. Upon the Dull Earth
8. The Turning Wheel
9. Prominent Author
10. Sales Pitch
11. Breakfast at Twilight
12. Of Withered Apples
13. Jon’s World
14. The Crawlers
15. Time Pawn
16. A World of Talent
17. Adjustment Team
18. Souvenir
19. Progeny
20. Human Is
21. Meddler
22. The Last of the Masters (aka Protection Agency)
23. Strange Eden
24. Exhibit Piece
25. The Father-thing

There is some overlap but I think that the years covered are 1952-1955 and that the research beyond those years hasn’t occurred yet. At the rate this is going there won’t be much that isn’t in the Public Domain. This would be a huge waste of potential revenue that Electric Shepherd Productions will lose if they no longer own the rights to all these stories. And I’m not aware of the legal aspects or issues if any of the films made have recourse to sue for fraud.

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Summary by Brian Davies: Time Out Of Joint (1959)

Review by Jason Koornick: Time Out Of Joint (1959)

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On Political Satire in P.K. Dick’s The Man Who Japed

Digressions on The Man Who Japed

I made changes to the list of YouTube video links to multi-part documentaries about Philip K. Dick on the Multimedia page. Instead of a list of links to part 1, part 2, etc. I created a page for each series and embedded the videos into the page.

This is what I ended up with:

• Philip.K. Dick documentary on BBC’s “Arena” originally broadcast on 9th April 1994.
• The Penultimate Truth about Philip K. Dick (2007)
• Philip.K. Dick – “Great Lives” Actor Michael Sheen discusses the life and work of Philip.K. Dick with Matthew Parris and Roger Luckhurst, Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College, The University of London. “Great Lives”, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the 6th of December 2011.
• Documentaire Philip K. Dick (in French no subtitles)

So you only need to scroll a little bit to see the next part of the movie. Enjoy!

Rt Rev Allen Greenfield made this comment on the “About The Site” page which I thought was an excellent question I couldn’t fully answer:

Has someone come up with a list of the PKD books and stories he refers to throughout The Exegesis. I’ve read all of his books, pretty much as they appeared, even the recent mainstream overdue fine novels, but far less of the short stories. I am asking because I would like to tell my less avid readers which are the “must reads first” before taking on The Exegesis. Some are obvious, some less so.

I would list these novels and stories I’m not sure:

Eye in the Sky (1957)
Time Out of Joint (1959)
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
The Penultimate Truth (1964)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
The Unteleported Man(1966)/“Lies, Inc.” (1984) (Revision of The Unteleported Man(1966))
Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)
Ubik (1969)
A Maze of Death (1970)
“Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said” (1974)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)

But I am not an expert in this area and I wanted to put the comment out on the home page for discussion. Please comment, and add or delete from my list as you need.