The commentator cianide187@hotmail.com
posts on 9/30/2007 10:21:15 PM
the pkd show is No more. DJZJ has transcended this life and will not be available to host the show in this demention. I believe he took to much canD and has lost himself forever.... perhaps he is with palmer eldrich now, plotting some way to make his return...... I will miss him, he was a great friend. book good.
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The commentator Brian Hoey
posts on 10/24/2006 9:08:04 AM
I remember reading a SF novel or story in the 60's set in a future, underground city. The protagagonist lives in an automated apartment that malfunctions: he has to argue with his fron door when he goes out and his automated meals are always at an inappropriate time (breakfast instead of dinner etc). Can anybody identify the story for me?
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posts on 9/12/2006 1:17:58 PM
Listen to DjZj interview Shane O'Brien and O'Brien's Edge.
"West Coast Blues With an East Coast Rock Attitude". Live stream 1PM or you are in Orange County 89.1 FM
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posts on 7/24/2006 7:30:58 PM
Tune in! The Philip K. Dick Show thursdays 1pm stream at KUCI.org or, if you are in Orange County try the radio dial at 88.9fm.
Featuring music, local bands pkd readings and general Chew-z, Can-d chaos.
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posts on 7/20/2006 7:07:24 PM
to anyone who has seen the movie, i am in dire need to find out the name of the book the character you first see in the movie wit the bugs. When he goes and buys that 70 wine bottle and then he grabs A BOOK; WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT BOOK? something fence i think; if you know please responf to this messAGE. tHANKS
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posts on 5/15/2006 9:25:49 PM
Just leaving this message to say few other books have blown my mind in such a strong way as The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. God, that was a ride! Long live Philip K. Dick.
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posts on 4/26/2006 1:09:00 PM
counterfeit vs. authentic? sounds like you have a cool teacher who assigned a PKD book that you haven't read. read the darn book. it's a good book. not as good as some of his books that didn't win awards but nevermind. the guy who sells used trinkets & stuff--the main character basically--is a good place to start looking.
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posts on 4/25/2006 10:18:05 PM
Does anyone know examples in the book Man in High castle where the theme counterfeit vs authentic is demonstrated
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/31/2006 7:03:27 PM
The Hanging Stranger
appeared in Science Fiction Adventures, December 1953
Geeez... there's a body hanging outside from a pole. Doesn't anyone care? Am I the only one who cares? Should I care? Ooops... its a mistake to care!
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/26/2006 2:34:08 PM
The commentator Oldtrekker2 posts on 3/4/2006 1:38:59 PM
The Chromium Fence appeared in Immagination, July 1955 -- When personal hygene promotions become the law, watch out!
War Veteran appeared in If, March 1955 -- A war veteran knows more than then he should about a war to come.
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Oldtrekker
posts on 3/24/2006 6:56:29 PM
Other readers and TV viewers may have made this connection too. The 1995 TV series "Slidders" owes a lot of premise to Eye in the Sky. The changing universes that shift between the minds of people caught in the accidental breakdown of a high energy particle accelerator is very much like the TV premise of moving to alternate Earths.
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The respected commentator derr
posts on 3/21/2006 7:30:58 PM
hi. thanks for the interesting notes and info on pkd stories from the past.
lets face it, if its some facts from the fifties, its in the past all right.
i hope the estate of pkd eventually markets a dvd about this great author.
i mean of course his relatives...and if
they are reading this, please let us know about it, or how we can get it.
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/16/2006 7:36:22 PM
Shell Game
appeared in Galaxy, September 1954
Well, of course, I'm not paranoid; but I know you are and here's how we are going to determine who is and who isn't?
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/15/2006 8:11:34 PM
Upon The Dull Earth
appeared in Beyond Fantasy Fiction, November, 1954
When the spirits take your fiance, let her go or you may regret what happens upon her return.
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/14/2006 7:36:54 PM
Psi-man Heal My Child (aka Outside Consultant)appeared in Imaginative Tales, November 1955
It could be the end of the world as we know it when alternate medicine becomes more effective and trustworthy as a means of treatment versus conventional medicine.
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/11/2006 4:26:56 PM
Second Variety
appeared in Space Science Fiction, May 1953
used in a movie, "Screamers"
Humans versus robots that learned to build and modify themselves after they were first developed by humans.
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/8/2006 9:16:29 PM
The Last Of The Masters (aka Protection Agency)
appeared in Orbit Science Fiction, Nov-Dec 1954
When getting rid of high tech mayhem becomes a way of life for some people.
[PKDick said in 1978: "Now I show trust of robot as leader, a robot who is the suffering servant, which
is to say a form of Christ. Leader as servant of man: leader who should be dispensed with -- perhaps.
An ambibuity hangs over the morality of this story. Should we have a leader or should we think for
ourselves? Obviously, the latter, in principle. But -- somethinmes there lies a gulf between what is
theoretically right and that which is practical. It's interesting that I would trust a robot and not an
android. Perhaps it's because a robot does not try to deceive you as to what it is."]
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/6/2006 8:38:02 PM
Sales Pitch
appeared in Future, June 1954
Fed up with advertising and want to get away? Well, maybe in another solar system there will be some relief, maybe. [PKDick said in 1978 that he didn't like the ending either.]
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/6/2006 4:42:47 PM
Foster, You're Dead
appeared in Star Science Fiction Stories No.3, 1955
edited by Frederik Pohl
The cruel side of a government's nuclear war paranoia.
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The commentator Oldtrekker2
posts on 3/4/2006 1:38:59 PM
The Chromium Fence
appeared in Immagination, July 1955
When personal hygene promotions become the law, watch out!
War Veteran
appeared in If, March 1955
A war veteran know more than then he should about a war to come.
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