Gregory Benford on Philip K. Dick. SF author/physicist Gregory Benford reminisces about his friend Philip K. Dick: ...I used some connections in the CIA to inquire with the FBI about Phil, and the break-in. Word came back that there was no Dick file at all. When I told him that he said they had probably destroyed it to “cover their trail.” He did love music and spent a lot on his FM system.
With Tim Powers he often listened to major symphonic works, and mentioned that he could not quite register the nuances from the left speaker. Gregory Benford: PKD in OC (Thanks, Dave Gill!) David Pescovitz at 10:34 am Tue, Aug 19, 2014 Hello Kitty is aboard Japan's Hodoyoshi-3 satellite orbiting the Earth. The goal of the project is to get more private companies interested in working with satellites, said Toshiki Tanaka, researcher in charge of the project at the University of Tokyo's Nano-Satellite Center.
Jason Weisberger at 10:30 am Tue, Aug 19, 2014 Star Wars before they ruined it, available again? Rare 1979 Philip K. Dick interview (new) HD [full documentary] Philip K. Dick - Valisystem. Information Machine: Back in Time Series | Rare 1979 Philip K. Dick interview. Source: LucidMaui youtube Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.
In his later works Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Harlan Ellison gets a haircut. Perhaps the strangest book event I’ve yet attended began on Saturday at Sweeney Todd’s Barber Shop in Hollywood. Shortly after 2 p.m., a 1950s-era hot rod pulled to the curb on Hollywood Boulevard, disgorging the legendary writer and iconoclast Harlan Ellison, accompanied by a pair of greasers in full leathers. At 79, Ellison has been a fixture in Los Angeles for more than half a century, cranking out such diverse works as fiction, teleplays and comic books. His 1967 anthology “Dangerous Visions” — featuring original stories by Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, J.G. Ballard, Norman Spinrad, Roger Zelazny and Samuel R.
Ellison wrote the “Star Trek” episode “The City on the Edge of Forever,” and created characters by which James Cameron’s “Terminator” franchise was inspired. The event on Saturday was for a reissue of these stories, in two volumes — “Pulling a Train” (158 pages, $14.95 paper) and “Getting in the Wind” (174 pages, $14.95 paper) — from the Brooklyn-based Kicks Books. Philip K Dick: Interview with Charles Platt, from 1979. Two interviews over the weekend honoring PKD « Busby777′s Weblog.
Interview Anne Mini. PKD on his work not being inspired by acid trips. VERTEX: Isn't "Faith of Our Father's," from Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, supposed to have been inspired by or written under the influence of acid? DICK: That really is not true. First of all, you can't write anything when you're on acid. I did one page once while on an acid trip, but it was in Latin. Whole damn thing was in Latin and a little tiny bit in Sanskrit, and there's not much market for that.
The page does not fall in with my published work. The other book which suggests it might have been written with acid is Martian Time-slip. That too was written before I had taken any acid. VERTEX: How much acid did you take anyway? DICK: Not that much. VERTEX: In the light of your own experiences with acid, how accurate do you think The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is as far as drugs are concerned? DICK: You remember what happened when they got on that drug? An Obscure Interview With PKD. Caption courtesy of Dangerous Minds: Philip K. Dick, Germs-manager Nicole Panter, author KW Jeter, and artist Gary Panter, at Philip K. Dick’s Santa Ana condo.
The photo was taken from Nicole Panter's flickr account. My Facebook friend Henry Baum hepped me to this interview from Slash Magazine 1980. Check out that photo! (I may have posted it here before, who knows?). There's A LOT of talent on that couch. I like the idea that the characters in Dick's books are owners rather than renters. Special thanks to Henry Baum! Wow, when I was looking for a picture of the shirt, I found this article about PKD, looks long...
Philip K. Dick and The Germs | The American Book of the Dead. A Talk with Philip K. Dick (1976) : Hour 25 with Mike Hodel.