Philip K. Dick speaks.

The Best of Philip K. Dick
(Echo Point Books, 2013)

Pacifica Radio's From the Vault archival program is featuring a 1976 conversation between sci-fi author Philip K. Dick and Pacifica Radio's Mike Hodel. Topics include Richard Congdon, Harlan Ellison, Richard Lupoff, Kurt Vonnegut, the business of writing, A Scanner Darkly, The Man in the High Castle, and the first story sold by Dick (to Anthony Boucher who was, in Dick's words, "a great writer, a great editor, a great anthologizer, and a great person").

Philip K. Dick this week on BBC Radio 7; neglected sci fi

This week, BBC Radio 7 features Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (made by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner). Go here for the schedule; episodes generally can be heard online for a week after broadcast.

Also of interest: Orson Scott Card in a November 3 online discussion with the Washington Post; writers and scientists select neglected science fiction.

Depeche Mode's Vince Clarke: Book reviewer?

As the NYPL blog reveals, Depeche Mode's Vince Clarke may be the book reviewer we've all been waiting for. A few excerpts:

• On Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly:
"F----in' weird."

• On Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder: 
"My 'addiction to fiction' began right here."

• On John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath:
"The last sentence makes me cry (every time)."

Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner at Cornell.

Sean Young in
Blade Runner

The online exhibition "Android Dreams" at Cornell University looks at Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and its later noiresque film adaptation, Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982).

Philip K. Dick, neo-Nazis, and the FBI.

The blog Letters of Note features letters from science fiction author Philip K. Dick to the FBI regarding individuals approaching him to place coded messages in his books.