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  • Sophia Hanson Wants to Believe

    Sophia Hanson Wants to Believe

    Don’t try to make human what you are not willing to regard as human.

  • Weekly Geekery

    Phillip K. Dick’s holy spirits—or hallucinations? Lovecraftian scientific horror in Stranger Things. Shakespeare + math = … Narcissists doth make psychiatrists of us all. As women of color win science fiction awards, ATTACK OF THE RABID PUPPIES!

  • The Mystical Dick

    What neither Scott nor most audiences of Blade Runner knew was that Dick’s mind really was every bit as far out as what was on the screen, if not more so. Philip K. Dick barely lived to see one movie made of…

  • The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Rick Moody

    The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Rick Moody

    The Rumpus Book Club chats with Rick Moody about his new book Hotels of North America, unreliable narrators, hotel porn, how titles are uncopyrightable, and Internet comment sections.

  • Talking Philosophy With Philip K. Dick

    Melville House has just published a collection of interviews of the late Philip K. Dick. Head over to their website to read an excerpt from the last interview the author ever gave, to Gregg Rickman, shortly before his death.

  • Humans Dream of an Electric Philip K. Dick

    Creepy robots were often at the heart of Philip K. Dick stories. The future is now: a company is building a realistic looking robot to haunt your dreams and it looks strikingly similar to the science fiction author. Electric Literature…

  • Speculating in Bangkok

    Yet the more I imagined this scene, the more I had read between the novels of Bukowski’s lowly dredge through life and Dick’s mind-bending canon of science fiction, I began to see more and more of an affinity between the…

  • Swinging Modern Sounds #63: It’s Supposed to Be Bad

    Swinging Modern Sounds #63: It’s Supposed to Be Bad

    Rick Moody emails with Scott Timberg, author of the new book Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, about Bob Dylan’s new Sinatra covers album, the need for cultural gatekeepers, and the “slippery sub genre” of bad-on-purpose art.

  • Weekly Geekery

    Vindicating psychiatry. The science of learning to read. Philip K. Dick warned you, but you didn’t listen. This robot can date for you. Love all over the world via Twitter. Studying social engagements and the marriage ones too.

  • Public Domain Has It

    My heart pounded and my breath choked in my windpipe. I had stumbled on an accidental mention of a totally unfamiliar race. Obviously non-Terrestrial. Yet, to the characters in the book, it was perfectly natural—which suggested they belonged to the…

  • A Losing Game

    I imagined if I had been writing in the 1950s and 1960s, I, too, may have been writing for the pulps. I got the sense that [Jim] saw me as a kindred spirit, that I reminded him of himself as…

  • The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Gary Panter

    The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Gary Panter

    The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.