Philip K. Dick

‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ comic (2009-11) immerses reader in PKD’s world

The marketing approach and selected quotes about the “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” comic adaptation (2009-11, Boom! Studios) is all wrong. The Village Voice

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‘Blade Runner 2019: Los Angeles’ (2019) vibrantly expands saga

The “Blade Runner” franchise continued in novels and a sequel film before finally getting its first comics continuation (not counting “Do Androids Dream of Electric

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‘Blade Runner’ makes stylish move to TV with ‘Black Lotus’

“Blade Runner: Black Lotus” (midnight Eastern Saturdays, Cartoon Network) puts dystopian future L.A. – in 2032, but it looks the same as the original movie,

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Carrere explores PKD in ‘I Am Alive and You Are Dead’ (1993)

French Philip K. Dick mega-fan and novelist Emmanuel Carrere takes one of the most unusual approaches to a biography in “I Am Alive and You

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Sutin’s ‘Divine Invasions’ (1989) is definitive PKD bio

Beware before you crack open Lawrence Sutin’s “Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick” (1989). It’s considered the elite PKD biography for good reason:

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‘Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick’ (1995) collects odds and ends

Lawrence Sutin follows up his excellent biography of Philip K. Dick, 1989’s “Divine Invasions,” with a peek at his research materials as he curates “The

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‘Transmigration of Timothy Archer’ (1982) puts bow on PKD catalog

It’s tempting to think of the last four books Philip K. Dick book wrote – all after his 1974 beam-of-pink-light experience – as his crazy

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‘Barjo’ (1992) wryly adapts ‘Confessions of a Crap Artist’

In a cosmic coincidence, Philip K. Dick’s depressive yelling-into-a-void rants that make up his wonderful midcentury California novels share common ground with the comedic sensibilities

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‘Crack in Space’ (1966) tackles elections, multiverses

“The Crack in Space” (written in 1963, published in 1966) is an unusually earnest novel from Philip K. Dick, who tackles American race relations through

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‘Screamers: The Hunting’ (2009) a redundant trek

With the sequel “Screamers: The Hunting” (2009), we get further away from the Philip K. Dick source material adapted into 1995’s “Screamers”: the 1953 short

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