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	Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy Kindred Dick.
		Dick's wife transcribed the sounds she heard him speak, and discovered that he was speaking Koine Greek, an ancient dialect which he had never studied.
		Dick consistently explored the themes of the nature of reality and humanity in his novels, which are populated by common working people, rather than galactic elites.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_K._Dick (3688 words)

	Philip K. Dick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dick's wife transcribed the sounds she heard him speak, and discovered that he was speaking Koiné Greek, an ancient dialect which he had never studied.
		Dick claimed that VALIS used "disinhibiting stimuli" to prep the subjects for communication, in one case the symbol of the vesicle pisces.
		Dick was also a voracious reader of works on religion, philosophy, metaphysics, and Gnosticism, and these ideas found their way into many of his stories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_K._Dick (3688 words)

	Scriptorium - Philip K. Dick
		Philip K. Dick was a husband to five wives, a father of three children, a brother obsessed by the loss of his twin sister, a son who blamed his mother for her daughter’s death, and a father figure to countless addicts and petty criminals who crashed at his California home.
		Dick’s early stories are concise and simple, written in the pulp style of 50’s science fiction, but they disclose a very complex political agenda and a reveal a visionary glimpse of the mature Philip K. Dick.
		Dick’s Gnosticism was characterized by a fundamental split between the mundane world and the spiritual world, where the course of one’s life was an obsessional desire to bridge the gap between the two.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/dick.html (7139 words)

	Philip K. Dick - Life & Work
		Philip K. Dick is one of the two or three genuinely great writers born and bred in the world of SF, and remains one of the most significant interpreters of America in the latter part of the twentieth century and a genius visionary of the future.
		Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was a great philosophical writer with a very fertile imagination.
		Philip Kindred Dick was born on 16 December 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
	www.geocities.com /pkdlw (437 words)

	Philip K. Dick - Life & Work
		Philip K. Dick is one of the two or three genuinely great writers born and bred in the world of SF, and remains one of the most significant interpreters of America in the latter part of the twentieth century and a genius visionary of the future.
		Philip Kindred Dick was born on 16 December 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
		Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was a great philosophical writer with a very fertile imagination.
	www.geocities.com /pkdlw (437 words)

	Philip K Dick Biography: PopSubCulture.com's The Biography Project
		Philip K. Dick was an incredibly imaginative writer, with the ability to twist every day circumstances around to such a degree that even the most mundane of situations could become outrageous and alien.
		APBnews.com dug up the 1972 FBI report filed by Philip K. Dick, in which he reported that a secret world health organization was plotting to use his writing to relay messages on "paresis", an alleged new strain of syphilis.
		Based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, the story follows the life of Dick's alter-ego, Horselover Fat, who has a strange VALIS "pink light" experience, which might be a real spiritual revelation, but looks an awful lot like a technological experiment gone awry or maybe even a nervous breakdown.
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/philip_k_dick.html (2629 words)

	pkd.html
		Philip K. Dick was one of the most influential and uniquely talented science fiction writers of all time.
		Philip K. Dick is in my opinion the greatest SF writer of the 20th century.
		Listen to Philip K. Dick Talk about his planed sequel to "The man in the high Castle.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Corridor/2982/pkd.html (1093 words)

	The Dick Factor: Philip K. Dick's Hollywood
		Philip K. Dick left a vast library for filmmakers to work with, and a film true to his work would be a fine tribute to one of the greatest science-fiction writers of the 20th century.
		While all these films have merit, and begin to explore Dick's ideas, there is a sense that the true PKD film is yet to be made: a film that leaves you grasping for the slightest sense that anything is surely real, that truly undermines the foundation of your being the way Dick's best work does.
		During his 1928-82 life span, Dick was a prolific author, with over forty science-fiction novels, several "mainstream" novels, countless stories, and a personal memoir to his credit.
	www.stim.com /Stim-x/0896August/Automedia/pkdick.html (911 words)

	Wired 11.12: The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick
		Philip K. Dick appeals to Woo, and to studio execs as well, because the humans take precedence over the science fiction elements of his stories - the robots, the gizmos, the spaceships that transport you to Mars.
		Philip K. Dick liked nothing better than to toy with the fundamentals of human existence, reality chief among them, so what better for the movie than a bullet that may or may not be tearing through the main character's flesh?
		Dick sometimes thought that history was an illusion and that the Nixon administration's dirty tricks only proved that "The Empire never ended." One wonders what he would think today.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.12/philip_pr.html (4773 words)

	Philip Kindred Dick
		Philip Kindred Dick was not only one of the most revolutionary authors of the science fiction genre, he was also a prophetic Gnostic.
		Dick has been uoted calling life a "cruel joke" and sayign that we, as humans, must "fight back on their level." The symbology in some of his books is often so multi-faceted that one reading of the book is not sufficient.
		Despite his being labeled as in the "non-serious" sci-fi genre (or maybe because of) Dick should be considered one of the most important literary figures of our, the 20th century's authors.
	www.angelfire.com /al/filosofy/phildick.html (4773 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Philip K. Dick
		Thomas Pynchon, Dick was obsessed with the second law of thermodynamics, and he coined words like kipple and gubble to denotes the corrosive power of entropy and its ability to render form into formlessness.
		Norbert Wiener, Dick viewed entropy metaphysically, casting it in some tales as evil incarnate or as the sign of some cosmic Fall.
		PKD had a twin sister, Jane, that died a few weeks after birth.
	fusionanomaly.net /philipkdick.html (874 words)

	The SF Site: Philip K. Dick Reading List
		Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928.
		Over the years, Philip K. Dick's novels and collections have slipped in and out of print.
		However, in 1991, Vintage, a division of Random House, the folk who bring us Ballantine and Del Rey titles, began an ambitious project to reprint many of his novels.
	www.sfsite.com /lists/pkd11.htm (506 words)

	Amazon.com: The Minority Report and Other Stories: Books: Philip K. Dick,Dullea Keir
		Philip K. Dick holds a special place in the annals of science fiction.
		What the Dick scholar will find here is a growing emphasis, at least in the short story format, on illusion and fakery, the seeds of some of Dick's novels, and, for the first time, stories which convey the frequent despair and desperation of those novels.
		Dick has some weirdly plausible things to say about play and the role of toys in our lives and mental health.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0694523348?v=glance (2757 words)

	Criticism and analysis - Philip K Dick
		Dick’s work poses a problem for evaluative criticism: its contradictions are as often as not the result of arbitrary and random reversals as of any conscious critique of bourgeois culture.
		Dick is fascinated by the incompatibility of absolute and relative value systems, and by means of the van Vogtian device he is able to give full attention to both.
		Dick’s characters are usually ordinary people—repairmen, housewives, students, salesmen—caught up in overwhelming situations that call into questiontheir basic beliefs about themselves and their world.
	www.stud.hum.ku.dk /rydahl/pkd/PKDcritic1.htm (11051 words)

	Hanson Robotics : Project > Phillip K. Dick Resurrected
		Philip K Dick's works addressed themes in which science, technology and robotics challenge and twist human identity.
		Philip K. Dick: Over the years it seems to me that by subtle but real degrees the world has come to resemble a PKD novel.
		The crowd is able to manipulate the expressions of Eva, the PKD robot's precursor, with slider controls and a matching explanation of the mechanism that create facial expression.
	hansonrobotics.com /project_pkd.php (1887 words)

	philipkdickfans.com - The web site devoted to science fiction visionary Philip K. Dick
		PKD Android Pix - Here are some new images of the Philip K. Dick android (courtesy of Hanson Robotics) that will be on display at the Wired Magazine Nextfest 2005, June 24 - 26 in Chicago.
		You can continue to share your thoughts with other PKD fans at the PhilipKdickFans.com forums (which are an extension of the old forums at this web site) while continuing to browse all the old content and some great new stuff here.
		The judges of the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society are pleased to announce six nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award:
	www.philipkdickfans.com /main.htm (1300 words)

	BRmovie.com: Profiles: Philip K Dick
		Dick felt left out of things when the BR production process started, because, to be honest, he was left out of things.
		Dick did not get to see the film released as he died a few months before the film's release.
		However, he did eventually see 20 minutes of film, including SFX and city shots and was blown away by it as it captured the concept of what he was thinking.
	www.brmovie.com /Profiles/BR_Maker_PKD.htm (1300 words)

	PKD / Philip K. Dick
		DICK: Oh yes, it's definitely science fiction, because the people who overthrow him are picked at random by an extraterrestrial satellite communications system which informs them what to do, and what information will bring down the tyrant, Ferris Fremont.
		Dick never actually believed that this was the real-world explanation for his own mystical experiences,
		PKD at his best places his readers in situations where reality is not clearly defined.
	members.tripod.com /doggo/doggpkd.html (1300 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Ubik
		Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.
		Philip K. Dick is a master in his own genre and I don't think anybody else dares to enter his realms.
		Dick again crafts a truly unique story that is full of wit and discussion on the nature of reality.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/2264028815 (1300 words)

	Philip K. Dick - Wikiquote
		Philip Kindred Dick (16 December 1928- 2 March 1982) American science fiction writer; often known by his initials PKD, and sometimes by the pen name Richard Phillips
		The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.
		The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Philip_K._Dick (1456 words)

	Philip K. Dick - Science Fiction Author - Official Site
		The former philipkdick.com site, including PKD fan forums, is now located at www.philipkdickfans.com.
		Media News: BBC Radio Features Philip K. Dick on original program "Confessions of a Crap Artist" tonight.
		All you need to know about the upcoming film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly due in theaters July 7, 2006.
	www.philipkdick.com (184 words)

	Philip Kindred Dick stuff
		• Dick was a Gnostic- some even think he was a Gnostic Prophet (but real Gnostics don't need no stinking Prophets).
		It was formerly known as the PKD FAQ - its unclear (to me) what it is known as now.
		Anyway, I think that he would have liked the Gnostic Friends Network.
	zenmind.org /curt-pkd.html (184 words)

	Philip K. Dick - Science Fiction Author - Official Site
		Philip K. Dick Android Debuts at Nextfest: Find out more and read his daughters thoughts.
		The former philipkdick.com site, including PKD fan forums, is now located at www.philipkdickfans.com.
		Check here often for up to the minute announcements about upcoming television appearances featuring the Philip K. Dick Android (June 24-July 1).
	www.philipkdick.com (184 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film Features Philip K Dick goes to Hollywood
		Yet Philip Kindred Dick is no Sixties anachronism, for he is now rated as one of Hollywood's most potent literary sources, having provided the books for Blade Runner and Total Recall, as well as the inspiration (albeit uncredited) for The Matrix and The Truman Show, films that are steeped with his distinctive, paranoid, hi-tech imagery.
		This is an intriguing question, though clearly Dick's extraordinary fecundity has played a part, along with the simple inventiveness of his ideas: disturbingly humanlike androids (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, filmed as Blade Runner); police who predict crimes before they happen (Minority Report); and the theft of memory and personality (Total Recall).
		He believed that visions bathed in pink light were passing him messages from an alien intelligence; that many of his fans were in the pay of the Kremlin; and that in a former life he'd been persecuted as a Christian in ancient Rome.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,742243,00.html (184 words)

	Discussion Community: My Epistolary Letter to Philip Kindred Dick.
		Tom Grime's interpretation of Philip K. Dick's "Black Iron Prison", the state of existence in which we all exist until we are able to undergo "anamnesis", the loss of forgetfulness and experience to the concept of gnosis, or completeness.
		Philip Kindred Dick interview in The Aquarian, No. 11, October 11-18, 1978; PKD OTAKU, No.4, 2002.
		Saramago's work is more about his graceful weave of language, characters and ideas, his courtly first-person-plural voice with its digressions and soliloquies on the nature of storytelling or the contradictions of parenthood or the way dogs observe human beings, than about the final pattern his books assume.
	www.thomhartmann.com /ubb/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/5/t/002664.html (184 words)

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		In the world of science fiction, the stories and writings of Philip K Dick are unparalleled.
		I hope you are infected by Dick's amazing knack for putting forward ideas in a wholly realistic alternate future or present.
		Many essays have been done on his popular work, instead I want to put forward his lesser known works, with my personal insight into the meanings of the writings, the intracacies and what Dick himself was going through at the time he wrote them.
	www.terminalclick.com /philipkdick (184 words)

	Philip K. Dick - Summary Bibliography (Long Works)
		Dick, Philip Kindred (Chicago, Illinois, USA, 16 December 1928- 2 March 1982)
		Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (1984)
		Collected Stories 1: Beyond Lies the Wub (The Collected Stories of Philip K Dick) (1990)
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Philip_K._Dick (150 words)

	Philip K. Dick
		Philip K. Dick, well respected science-fiction writer, worked closely with the BLADE RUNNER producers until his untimely passing in March 1982.
		DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, the classic science-fiction novel from which BLADE RUNNER was adapted, was first published in 1969.
		And seeing him as a character I created is a stunning and almost supernatural experience to me."
	www.devo.com /bladerunner/sector/1/philip.html (776 words)

	The Philip K Dick Bookshelf - Home Page
		At last...the much awaited last volume of The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick - Volume 6, covering the years 1980-1982, should be available within the next couple of months.
		Listen to the Philip K Dick android in a BBC radio show about the religious experience of PKD (you can skip the first 2 min of unrelated stuff)
		For WIRED magazine's NextFest, a team of artists, writers, engineers, literary scholars, and freethinkers have created an android portrait of Philip K Dick.
	www.pkdickbooks.com (190 words)

	Philip K. Dick Quotes - The Quotations Page
		Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
		Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
		Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
	www.quotationspage.com /quotes/Philip_K._Dick (121 words)

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