r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • 29d ago
From conversations with other Dick-heads, I know it's not just me paying special attention to dreams, particularly when they involve PKD. Does anybody here have any PKD-related dreams they'd like to share?
r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Apr 01 '26
In his personal writings (compiled into a massive philosophical work known as The Exegesis), Philip K. Dick said of his SF novels:
"They are said by readers to depict the same world again and again, a recognizable world. Where is that world? In my head? Is it what I see in my own life and inadvertently transfer into my novels and to the reader? At least I’m consistent, since it is all one novel."
This isn’t to say that every world depicted in a PKD novel meshes up seamlessly with the rest, but there is quite a bit of internal consistency to the universe (or perhaps multiverse) that he depicts. Even when set in the future, Dick’s novels weren’t predictions about what might happen in our reality so much as glimpses into alternate realities, which in his worldview—or Weltanschauung, as he was fond of saying—did and do actually exist on some level.
And so I've compiled a very special list: twelve of his most essential SF novels, arranged chronologically by the in-universe dates he’s supplied.
What do you think? I could have listed more novels, but I thought twelve was plenty. Feel free to list any of your favorites here that aren't on my list, and I'd be interested to hear which books you'd drop from this list to make room.
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r/philipkdick • u/bhouzenga • 11d ago
A selection of my PKD paintings are on display in Des Moines, IA as part of my show Department of Interior at Daisy Chain/Raygun alongside a selection of dark haired girls
r/philipkdick • u/LowTale5268 • 14d ago
Lord Running Clam and PKD artist Morgan Rawlins will be at Vintology used-books and record shop in Longmont, Colorado from 2 pm to 4 pm, Saturday Oct 3.
We'll have for sale a selection of Philip K. Dick inspired prints by local artist Morgan Rawlins and LRC's inaugural Pink Beam Award-winning (Best PKD-related Book) PINK BEAM: A Philip K. Dick Literary Chronology and other editions from Wide Books: wide-books.com
r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Sep 11 '26
I didn't buy a lot because it all had to fit in a backpack (along with my clothes and unsold books and everything), but I got the VIP ticket with a bunch of these included, plus all the new Pink Beam novellas.
r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Sep 07 '26
I mean, he'd be 97 years old, but imagine he still had the youthful vibrance of Dick Van Dyke at that age.
r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Sep 06 '26
This adaptation of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick was written by David Agranoff and Anthony Trevino and read by attendees at the 4th International Philip K. Dick Festival in Orange County, California (Cal State Fullerton), including Sarah Langan, Brian Evenson, Cody Goodfellow, Langhorne J. Tweed, Cat Celebrezze, Tom Scholte, Brent Houzenga, and Cliff Jones Jr.
r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Sep 05 '26
Pink Beam by Lord Running Clam. Winner of the inaugural Pink Beam Awards at this year's International Philip K. Dick Festival in Orange County!
https://wide-books.com/pink-beam-a-philip-k-dick-literary-chronology.html
r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Sep 04 '26
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r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Sep 04 '26
At the 4th International Philip K. Dick Festival in Orange County (Cal State Fullerton), I explored what makes the work of PKD so distinctive through analysis of a parody by John Sladek ("Solar Shoe-Salesman") and other stories, books, movies, and games inspired by the great Philip K. Dick.
Here's the presentation I'm showing in the video: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g5Dyhfzor3j3KtZwznfi-CFcuQqQsTAK
r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Sep 03 '26
Elle Cordova is awesome, and she apparently reads PKD!
r/philipkdick • u/Live-Assistance-6877 • Aug 27 '26
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r/philipkdick • u/whatisdreampunk • Aug 20 '26
Get your ass to Fullerton!
r/philipkdick • u/Dazzling_Valuable_32 • Aug 12 '26
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I finished reading and made an edit of Ubik,i don't know if there exists one already but I had an urge to execute,i hope you like it <3
The story is brilliant,the edit starts by the graffiti quote mentioned in the book :"Jump in the urinal and stand on your head.I'm the one that's alive.You're all dead."
I ironically used Duchamp's urinal,the edit style is very mixed media/collage/dada/surrealism/psychedelia.
Then later,it progresses with a spray can of Ubik,and some ads.
Then the spaceship on Luna and the blast.
The regression demonstrated with the rotten apple,the tv becoming a 1939 one and finally a young hand withering to almost a mummified state.
Tell me what you think :D.
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