Tag: VALIS
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Philip K. Dick Again
I just finished Lawrence Sutin’s Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick (1989, Harmony Books). Enjoyed every page. Instead of reviewing the entire book, I want to share two good parts. Page 265 features a classic PKD parable mixing scientific knowledge with divine wisdom. Phil wrote this in 1979: A new ambulance is filled with gasoline…
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Russell Galen as Renaissance Man
by Bill Ectric I think of literary agent Russell Galen as a Renaissance Man. Martin Torgoff calls Galen “a true lover of words and books” in the acknowledgment section of Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. Philip K. Dick dedicates his masterpiece VALIS, “To Russell Galen, who showed me…
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Blues For Horselover Fat: William Gibson on Philip K. Dick
From PhilipKDickfans.com, William Gibson says, “Remarkable the number of Phil Dick’s fans who have no desire to read any other sf. It always impressed me. ‘Well, no, I don’t read that stuff…. But do you know this guy Dick?’ How did they get on to him? Word of mouth…. He was the only product of…