Dickheads Podcast

14/05/2025

Our co-host David Agranoff has something cool on the way! You can check it out on the website for the magazine that defined Sci-Fi. Amazing Stories has the cover reveal and the entire first chapter of David's next novel due out July 8th from Quoir. Great America in Dead World is an experimental science fiction novel, written using the PKD formula it comments on our modern world while taking a philosophical look at reality itself in a post-truth society.

SYNOPSIS FOR “GREAT AMERICA IN DEAD WORLD” by David Agranoff: Kai is a post-human woman who is technologically modified to survive the harsh realities of climate change and works as a “Janie” whose only job […]

17/03/2025

Here is the first of our Zoom Hangout series. This one features an interview with Philip K. Dick Film Festival organizer Dan Abella. And remember, you can join us every Tuesday at 6 PM PT for more interactive interviews and general PKD chat. –LJT

The 'Not a Book Club Book Club' podcast on PKD, his books, and influence.These Dick Hangouts on Zoom will include interactive interviews for Di*****ds Podcas...

11/03/2025

Hello fellow PKD nerds!
March 11th, 9 PM EST/6 PM PST The weekly (Philip K.) Dick Hangout on Zoom includes Live interviews for Di*****ds Podcast, and you can be a part of it. This week we are joined by Alec Nevala Lee. Afterward, we will discuss our current PKD-related studies as a group. Everyone is welcome!
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The 'Not a Book Club Book Club' podcast on PKD, his books, and influence.Hello fellow PKD nerds!March 11th, 9 PM EST/6 PM PST The (Philip K.) Dick Hangout on...

10/03/2025

(PKD) Dick hangouts/interviews in March… Join us live Tuesdays at 9PM EST/6 PM PST to join the discussion.

This Week! March 11 – Alec Nevala Lee - Alec is the Hugo and Locus Award finalist for the group biography Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Dey Street / HarperCollins), His next book was the biography Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller, which was released by Dey Street / HarperCollins in 2022. He is working on Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey From Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs, a biography of Luis W. Alvarez, which will be published by W.W. Norton on June 10, 2025. His fiction includes the thrillers The Icon Thief, City of Exiles, and Eternal Empire, all published by Penguin Books.
https://sfsu.zoom.us/j/87900303620?pwd=bmAlhbHP5TGUYUp9ugkb3vbiW9uW9g.1

March 18 – Cynthia Pelayo, author of Vanishing Daughters, will talk about the influence of UBIK on her new novel.

March 25 – Ray Nayler, author of A Mountain in The Sea and Where the Axe is Buried, we will discuss the influence of PKD and the benefits of reading Stanislaw Lem in Russian.

March 31 – John Shirley – novelist and screenwriter the author William Gibson called Cyberpunk Patient zero. We will talk about learning from the masters at Clarion in the 70s and the origins of Cyberpunk.

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14/02/2025

Our reviews editor D. Harlan Wilson has a new book coming out on Kubrick’s futurist cinema. Here’s your chance to rake him over the coals! DM us if you’re interested in covering this title for Extrapolation.

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17/01/2025

Hey Di*****ds we have a different pink Laser beam of truth next Thursday. Our co-host David Agranoff will be leading a LIVE discussion of Phil's 50s masterpiece Second Variety for the LA Library's Mark Twain Branch. Join us.. One week from tonight!