Episodes
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 24.1: Solar Lottery, Part 1
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
And we come to Dick's first novel, Solar Lottery. In this episode we will look at the first three chapters of the book, which does a lot to set up the setting and the world.
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 23: The Indefatigable Frog
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Philip K. Dick takes on Zeno's paradox in "The Indegatigable Frog".
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Episode 45: John Steinbeck, Pastures of Heaven (1)`
Friday Jul 28, 2017
Friday Jul 28, 2017
In this episode we start a new series on John Steinbeck, beginning with his novel of short stories The Pastures of Heaven.
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 22: The Variable Man
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
In this episode of the Philip K. Dick Book Club we take on one of my favorite early Dick stories (novella to be honest), "The Variable Man".
(I mention that Hollywood never took on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but I was wrote. There was a 1944 adaptation. I stand by that my claim that this could make a good movie if revisted.)
Let me know what you think? Does "The Variable Man" deserve more love?
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Episode 44: Thomas Paine: Age of Reason (2)
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
Sunday Jul 23, 2017
In this episode we say goodbye to my favorite founder, Thomas Paine, as we look at the second part of Age of Reason. Next up....John Steinbeck.
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 21: Expendable
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Monday Jul 17, 2017
What happens when the bugs decide to do us in? What if the real ancient old ones are insects? Find out in episode of the Philip K. Dick Book as we look at "Expendable".
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Episode 43: Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1)
Monday Jul 17, 2017
Monday Jul 17, 2017
In this episode, we begin to close the book on Thomas Paine with the work that may be his most infamous or his most enduring, The Age of Reason.
Friday Jul 14, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 20: Tony and the Beetles
Friday Jul 14, 2017
Friday Jul 14, 2017
In "Tony and the Beetles", Philip K. Dick provides an allegory of postcolonialism and the impact of white privledge on people as they grow up.
Friday Jul 14, 2017
Episode 42: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (2)
Friday Jul 14, 2017
Friday Jul 14, 2017
In this episode we examine part 2 of The Rights of Man, where Paine gives some deatils on the functions of democratic societies and governments.
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 19: Impostor
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
"Impostor" is Dick's first published robot story that explored the idea of the machine programmed to think its human.
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Episode 41: Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man (1)
Monday Jul 10, 2017
Monday Jul 10, 2017
In this episide we begin a two-episode series on The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution. In the first part of this important book, Paine focuses on principles and responses to some of Edmund Burke's most odious critiques of the French Revolution.
Tuesday Jul 04, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 18: The Cookie Lady
Tuesday Jul 04, 2017
Tuesday Jul 04, 2017
In this episode of the Philip K. Dick Book Club we examine "The Cookie Lady," Dicks retelling of the Hansel and Gretel story. But what does a story about the old consuming the young have to do with our time? A lot, it seems.
Tuesday Jul 04, 2017
Episode 40: Thomas Paine: The Crisis and Other Pamphlets
Tuesday Jul 04, 2017
Tuesday Jul 04, 2017
In this episode we look at the remainder of Paine's pamphlets, including the final Crisis articles and "Agrarian Justice."