Episodes
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 99.5: Martian Time-Slip (5)
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
The conclusion to my thoughts on Philip K. Dick's brilliant novel "Martian Time-Slip".
Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 102: The Penultimate Truth
Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
Tuesday Aug 07, 2018
In this one-off episide, I will be looking at Philip K. Dick's "The Penultimate Truth". It is a rich novel on fake news, labor, power, and time travel. It is one of Dick's stronger political novels.
With this novel we are done with the novels of 1964. Coming up, the stories Dick published in 1964.
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 113.2:The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (2)
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Part 2 of my review of Philip K. Dick's "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch". You need to wait a bit to know what those three are.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Poor Deckard. Doomed to be kipple, but maybe he can find some meaning in an electronic frog. Let's read the final chapters of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and move onto a book with a much shorter title.
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 114: Lies, Inc. (The Unteleported Man)
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
The first of two parts exploring Philip K. Dick's novel "Lies, Inc." This part will explore the material in his 1965 novella "The Unteleported Man."
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 121.4: The Zap Gun, Part 4
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
The final part of my review of "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick. Is it possible that a toy can stop an alien invasion?
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 122.1: Counter Clock World, Part 1
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
In "Counter Clock World", Philip K. Dick takes us to an Earth where time moves backward, knowledge must be destroyed, and the dead come back to life. At least these is still money to be made digging up graves. Beware the library.
Wednesday May 22, 2019
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 147: VALIS
Wednesday May 22, 2019
Wednesday May 22, 2019
Philip K. Dick's "VALIS Trilogy" begins with a little novel called VALIS. A fan favorite, but not one I care for very much. Let me know what you think.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2019
Wednesday Apr 17, 2019
In the 1975 short story (unpublished in his life) "The Eye of the Sibyl", Philip K. Dick writes about himself and his fiction and the Roman oracle. A good preview of the type of thinking that dominated the later part of his life.
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 100.5. The Simulacra, Part 5
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
And that is all she wrote for "The Simulacra". Here are my final thoughts. Up next is a one off episode on "The Clans of the Alphane Moon"
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 121: The Zap Gun, Part 1
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
My review of the opening chapters of "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick. An interesting novel exploring the relationship between the military-industrial complex and a consumer economy. In this part of the novel we meet our depressed hero with an explosive name, Lars Powderdry.
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 130.2: A Maze of Death, Part 2
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Part two of my thoughts on "A Maze of Death" by Philip K. Dick. Things start to get dark quickly.
Sunday Mar 24, 2019
Sunday Mar 24, 2019
Philip K. Dick has been writing obliquely about Malthus since some of his earliest stories. In the "Pre-Persons" Dick takes on these issues again, and along the way angered the feminists. Is this story just his response to Roe v. Wade or does it have a more significant place in his argument against gerontocracy?
Saturday Jun 01, 2019
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Future Plans
Saturday Jun 01, 2019
Saturday Jun 01, 2019
The Philip K. Dick Book Club will be on hiatus for a while, but here are my future plans. Let me know if you have any additional ideas.
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 117.4: Now Wait for Last Year (4)
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
The final episode containing my thoughts on Philip K. Dick's "Now Wait for Last Year". This novel has one of the best endings in a Philip K. Dick novel. Marriage still sucks, but maybe we need to stick with it because it is one of the areas where we can find institutionalized solidarity.
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 117.1: Now Wait for Last Year (1)
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Another one of my favorite novels by Dick from the 1960s, "Now Wait for Last Year." Here is the first thoughts on the novel.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
In this episode we start to look at Philip K. Dick's CONFESSIONS OF A CRAP ARTIST, written in the late 1950s. It was a mainstream novel that explores some interesting themes of family and new religious movements.
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 127.3: Ubik, Part 3
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Sunday Jan 13, 2019
Joe Chip, our story's hero, tries to make sense of a world in which everything decays and even technologies revert to earlier forms, in part three of our look a Philip K. Dick's "Ubik". Maybe the secret is that everyone is dead.
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 116.1: The Crack in Space (1)
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
Sunday Oct 14, 2018
Part one of my thoughts on Philip K. Dick's "The Crack in Space", one of his most politically significant novels.
Monday Apr 29, 2019
Monday Apr 29, 2019
In part 3 of my review of Philip K. Dick's A SCANNER DARKLY we follow Bob Arctor as he descends into the ultimate of paranoia and addiction by investigating himself. Is this is metaphor for the ultimate fate of the surveillance state? Of course.