A Philip K. Dick Bibliography

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which recently published the The Philip K. Dick Exegesis and many of the PKD’s science fiction novels, is also publishing his novels in e-book format.

The titles  include Now Wait for Last Year,  the next novel to be adapted into a movie,  A Scanner Darkly, semi-autobiographical novel about the California drug subculture (a great read, much better than the movie made in 2007), and one of his masterpiece, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Available titles include:

• The Divine Invasion (9780547601199) read more
• Lies, Inc. (9780547601212) read more
• Now Wait for Last Year (9780547601298) read more
• A Scanner Darkly (9780547601311) read more
• The Simulacra (9780547601304) read more
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (9780547601328) read more
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (9780547601335) read more
• VALIS (9780547601342) read more

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Interesting article on the Exegesis by someone who has met Philip K. Dick.

The Voices in Philip K. Dick’s Head

By CHARLES PLATT Published: December 16, 2011 in the New York Times Book Review

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The second volume of the new five-volume edition of Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick is available on Amazon. This book, entitled “Adjustment Team”, contains 26 stories and novellas from the extraordinarily productive years of 1952 and 1953, along with extensive story notes.

This series of books, published by Subterranean Press, is the first hard cover reprint of the Collected Stories, since the third and last Underwood-Miller print run  in 1991. According to Frank Hollander (see his reviews on Amazon) these books are poor re-editions of the original Collected Stories, with many unacceptable flaws. I would say that the cover isn’t great either.

Volume 2 of the Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announces the publication of the Exegesis as well as the creation, with Bookpulse (I am not sure what this is), of a social eBook app for the Exegesis. This app will “allows readers to share annotations from Dick scholars, connect with their favorite social network, discover other books by Dick, and interact with others”.

Jonathan Lethem, who is co-editor of the Exegesis with Pamela Jackson says: “The Exegesis is a great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. It’s the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn’t a legend and he wasn’t mad. He lived among us, and was a genius.” I can’t wait to get my copy.

Philip K. Dick’s daughters Laura Leslie and Isa Hackett and Jonathan Lethem have embarked on a promotional tour and will appear at New York’s Union Square Barnes & Noble on Nov. 7 (7 p.m.), the Los Angeles Public Library with Jackson and moderated by Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin on November 14 (7 p.m.), and Moe’s Books in Berkeley, California, with Jackson on November 22 (7:30 p.m.). I can’t wait to meet them.

The Exegesis, Harcourt 2011, hard cover

Joshua Glenn posted on his blog an article that was published initially in Hermenaut in 1999.  This very interesting piece, peppered with many pictures of the man and his books, is both a biography and an analysis of P. K. Dick’s work. A great read.

Issue #15 of the Hermenaut, 1999.

To help Sparkplug comics publisher Dylan Williams defray the costs related to a serious illness, Floating World Comics has collected original comics art based on Philip K. Dick novel by comics creators like Michael Deforge (Spotting Deer), Adam Hines (Duncan the Wonder Dog), Malachi Ward (Expansion) and Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole). The posters were sold on ebay earlier this month and went for about $100 each. Digital poster prints will be available soon. Check the Divine Invasion tumblr for more information on auctions.

–> Auction for a Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch poster by Ian McEwan will end October 5.

Philip K. Dick Posters

Norman Spinrad publishes his 1990 essay on Philip K. Dick on his SCRIBD page.
In this text, published in his book SCIENCE FICTION IN THE REAL WORLD, he says:
“The final testament of Philip K. Dick is THE TRANSMIGRATION OF
TIMOTHY ARCHER, the last novel Phil wrote, a work which is
luminously lucid, eminently sane, a literary breakthrough for Phil
at the end of his career and in a certain sense a piss-take on the
Philip K. Dick of VALIS, THE DIVINE INVASION, and the “Exegesis.”
and I have to say that I fully agree with him.

Norman Spinrad

As we are nearing the 30th anniversary of Blade Runner we are told that a new Blade Runner movie will be shot by Ridley Scott. The movie will be a follow up on Blade Runner but it is not said whether it will be a prequel or a sequel. This is announced as the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep comic books series is winding down. After Blade runner the Final Cut, the comic book series including the prequel DADOES Dust to Dust it seems that the franchise is kept alive. Whatever happens it will be interesting see how Ridley Scott’s vision of DADOES has changed in 30 years.

Gollancz (Orion Publishing Group) will publish 1,000 sci-fi titles from its catalog, including novels from Philip K. Dick,  in e-book format through the SF Gateway.  This follows the success the Masterworks Series, but will include many out of print titles from about 100 authors. The SF Gateway will be the largest SF and fantasy books library with 5,000 e-books planned by 2014. It will be linked to an upcoming online version of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference work in the field. The encyclopedia will be freely accessible and will link to the SF Gateway.

Read more about the SF Gateway and the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Radio Free Albemuth gets Best In Festival Award at the Miami, FL Geek Film Festival. Is this good or bad? Just wondering.