Philip K. Dick, the author who gave us our most vivid daymares and weirdest conundrums, is having his 80th birthday today. What can you do to celebrate?
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Here are a few ideas:
- listen to a two-hour radio tribute by Dick blogger Total Dickhead.
- read this guy's essay about why Dick is up there with Don DeLillo or David Foster Wallace.
- wonder what happened to the missing android PKD.
- Read R. Crumb's awesome comic about Philip K. Dick's religious experience
- listen to a newly released Dick audiobook, Mr. Spaceship.
- discover the hidden link between Dick and philosopher Heidegger.
- watch an entire BBC documentary about Philip K. Dick on Youtube.
What did I miss?
DISCUSSION
nice...
I remember when Blade Runner was on the verge of being released...early '82...I was only 11 so the chances of seeing it in the theatre were slim (I managed to sneak in to a showing in one of the greatest capers of my youth)...Harrison Ford and the guy that did Alien? I was as keen as an 11 year old could possibly be about it...so I started reading the book, and then every PKD book I could find - NOT an easy task in the early '80s Calgary...finally I had EVERYTHING...except The Simulacra, it took 9 years to find it...and a few months later Vintage started publishing the now ubikuitous (hee hee) reprints... :\
Happy Birthday Philip K. Dick!