…which hasn't been published yet, but I read the galleys. The publishers wanted a blurb for the jacket. That's a biography of Phil Dick, who seems to me the most fascinating science fiction writer who ever lived. To me, by my judgment, wrote the greatest…

…he led the weirdest life of any science fiction writer. And this is an absolutely fascinating biography. Even if you've never read Phil Dick, I recommend the book. If you've never read any of his novels, the book will get you so fascinated you'll run…

…about Sirius, and she admits there's a lot of synchronicities connected with her writings on Sirius. She wasn't aware of Phil Dick, and she wasn't aware of my... experiences with Sirius. But there are synchronicities connected with her writing of those…

…done my brain considerable damage with Cannabis extracts and the novels of Philip K dick which are a very dangerous combination. Phil Dick has written many novels on the theme that a well designed Android Wouldn't even know it was an Android. The Android…

…and having read a lot of Philip K dick I knew if that was true I'd be the last one to know it because as Phil Dick pointed out a fully functioning Android would have to believe it was whoever it was supposed to be acting like. So if I was an…

…was a period in 1973 when I was getting communications from sirius, or thought I was, and then in 1974 my friend Phil Dick started getting communications from sirius too or thought he was, and so I've always been intrigued with sirius. Oh I eventually…

…I'm very grateful to Phil for that. Well, I don't know anything about what's grown out of Phil Dick's work except for the Phil Dick fan sites. I never read any Phil Dicks though. Read valis, read valis and then read ubik and then read all the REST…

…You just can't get through to them. There doesn't seem to be a human being there at all. That makes you realize why Phil Dick had those constant recurring paranoid fears that there are a lot of robots among us disguised as human beings. After all that…

…an afterword to a book by Scott O Powell who was a friend of Phil Dick's. And how many people here are aware of Phil Dick and his writings? How many are aware of the last years of Phil Dick, the mysteries surrounding his, the first stories of Phil…

…And how many people here are aware of Phil Dick and his writings? How many are aware of the last years of Phil Dick, the mysteries surrounding his, the first stories of Phil Dick? Yeah well in 1973 Phil thought he was receiving communications from…

…writings? How many are aware of the last years of Phil Dick, the mysteries surrounding his, the first stories of Phil Dick? Yeah well in 1973 Phil thought he was receiving communications from extraterrestrials. Then later he decided it was Russian Telepaths…

…was living in Amsterdam or that he was in Boston. He was recorded all over the world. It was a great controversy among Phil Dick fans and science fiction fans in general as to whether he was alive or not. The Phil Dick society finally, after extensive…

…a great controversy among Phil Dick fans and science fiction fans in general as to whether he was alive or not. The Phil Dick society finally, after extensive investigation, announced that his wife was at his funeral. They met other people who were at his…

…the trouble of interviewing the doctors in the hospital. Phil was definitely dead. So all those people who were seeing Phil Dick wandering around were either seeing his ghost or they had overactive imaginations. Then Phil started manifesting in the dreams of…

…a very clever imitation. Well, what else are they to say when you make an appearance. Well, you know they may be right. Phil Dick was a great science fiction writer and a friend of mine. He pointed out a perfect Android to replace somebody who would…

…question: did I encounter god in February 1974 or did I encounter something so much like god that I can't tell it from god? Phil Dick spent the last eight years of his life meditating on that question was it god or was it something very much like god?…