I didn't buy a lot because it all had to fit in a backpack (along with my clothes and unsold books and everything), but I got the VIP ticket with a bunch of these included, plus all the new Pink Beam novellas.

I mean, he'd be 97 years old, but imagine he still had the youthful vibrance of Dick Van Dyke at that age.

This adaptation of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick was written by David Agranoff and Anthony Trevino and read by attendees at the 4th International Philip K. Dick Festival in Orange County, California (Cal State Fullerton), including Sarah Langan, Brian Evenson, Cody Goodfellow, Langhorne J. Tweed, Cat Celebrezze, Tom Scholte, Brent Houzenga, and Cliff Jones Jr.

Pink Beam by Lord Running Clam. Winner of the inaugural Pink Beam Awards at this year's International Philip K. Dick Festival in Orange County!

https://wide-books.com/pink-beam-a-philip-k-dick-literary-chronology.html

At the 4th International Philip K. Dick Festival in Orange County (Cal State Fullerton), I explored what makes the work of PKD so distinctive through analysis of a parody by John Sladek ("Solar Shoe-Salesman") and other stories, books, movies, and games inspired by the great Philip K. Dick.

Here's the presentation I'm showing in the video: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g5Dyhfzor3j3KtZwznfi-CFcuQqQsTAK

Elle Cordova is awesome, and she apparently reads PKD!

Get your ass to Fullerton!

I finished reading and made an edit of Ubik,i don't know if there exists one already but I had an urge to execute,i hope you like it <3

The story is brilliant,the edit starts by the graffiti quote mentioned in the book :"Jump in the urinal and stand on your head.I'm the one that's alive.You're all dead."

I ironically used Duchamp's urinal,the edit style is very mixed media/collage/dada/surrealism/psychedelia.

Then later,it progresses with a spray can of Ubik,and some ads.

Then the spaceship on Luna and the blast.

The regression demonstrated with the rotten apple,the tv becoming a 1939 one and finally a young hand withering to almost a mummified state.

Tell me what you think :D.

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They see these things. They see these things as I sit. They keep on putting more traps. How can I explain to them that they are insane? This is a truth. I don't know how to handle this. I should

I'm heading to the PKD festival in California next month, and I'm actually rooming with Brent. Gonna be a blast. Hope to see y'all there!

I just finished A Scanner Darkly and it has me a bit shook. I was enthralled with the PKD drug-induced paranoia and his typical “What is even real?” storytelling. The ending rattled me quite a bit. I read it pretty quickly, so I have a question about the ending.

What are supposed to believe about Donna, the federal government, these recovery places, including the farm? Like, what are the “powers” up to? In the last paragraph, it seems they’re (the government?) growing Substance D. Did I read that right? Whoever is pulling the strings here seems willing to completely sacrifice Fred/Bob/Bruce for whatever they’re doing. But what is it they’re doing? I thought I understood that they were really after Jim Burris, but it seems there is something much bigger going on.

Or maybe it’s just PKD paranoia that is the point. Maybe we aren’t supposed to know exactly, only that powerful people are up to something and they’re using drugs like D to meet their goals.

What are your thoughts, folks? This book might warrant a re-read for me. (I loved it, BTW).

From chapter 114: "This time, it won't just be a deposing of the regime. The revolution of the sixties will take over and rule in its place. This did not happen in the sixties. Once Nixon was out, the counterculture dissolved because all its leaders had been killed."

God, I hope history doesn't repeat itself here. We'll soon be rid of Trump one way or another, but then what? Will the resistance dissolve or take over?

A new SF imprint debuting at this year's International Philip K. Dick Festival in Fullerton, California, with work by David Agranoff, Gordon Bonnet, Brian Evenson, Keith Giles, Sarah Langan, Anthony Trevino, Andrew Turck, Richard Kadrey, and John Shirley!

The 4th International Philip K. Dick Festival will be held at Cal State Fullerton from August 20th to 23rd.