Announcing Dick-Fest 2024 in Ft. Morgan, Colorado!

 

Mark your calendars, Dick-Heads, and prepare yourselves for Dick-Fest 2024 -- June 13-16, 2024...

The Fest is being helmed by the incomparable Ganymedean Slime Mold, Lord Running Clam, who you may know as David Hyde. Designed to be a Dickian hybrid of fan and scholar cultures, The Fest is a petri dish of high weirdness, from which strange collaborations and even friendships can emerge. There will be lectures, music, art, imbibing, and esoteric conversation! Reconnect with your favorite Dick-head, or meet some new ones! 

Ft Morgan is, as they say, where the bodies are buried. In this case, Jane and Phil. The city and surrounding area provide important context to Dick's familial ancestry (hint: it's bleak!). And proximity, even to the deceased, is bound to stoke our enthusiasm even as we pay our respects. 

Featured speakers include: Andrew M. Butler, Sam Umland, David Agranoff, Ted Hand, Frank Hollander, Josh Lind, Blake Wilson, and myself. With many more names on the way. If you'd like to present or want to get involved in the planning stages of the event, shoot an email to me (thetotaldickheadATgmail.com) or Lord RC (pink-beamAThotmail.com). 

Stay tuned to this channel as more info becomes available. 

For reference, here's info about the 2012 Dick-Fest, as well as this one which inspired it. 

Precious Artifacts Arrives!

In addition to finishing out a grueling five-week intensive summer class, I have extra reason to smile. I came home last week to find, waiting for me in my mailbox, Henri Wintz and David Hyde's new PKD Bibliography, Precious Artifacts!

What is it is is an alphabetized list of Dick's published works. There's a picture of every cover ever in here, with detailed info. Check out this info graphic I stole from the dickien.fr site..

 

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Say you wanted to compare multiple covers from Clans of the Alphane Moon just to see if any of the pictures of Phil weren't taken from the Blade Runner photoshoot with Ridley Scott, Precious Artifacts has got you covered.

David Hyde, Lord RC, already produced the essential Pink Beam PKD Companion, and while this volume does not include extensive plot information, there's plenty of eye candy and interesting stuff to be learned on every page. Henri Wintz has long run the Philip K Dick Bookshelf website which housed the largest collection of cover imagery anywhere on the web. So this was a match made in the Palm Tree Garden.

These guys self-published this bibliography which is especially admirable and Dickian in the small-business is good business ethos, which is truer now than ever. Precious Artifacts is available at amazon and createspace (where I got my copy - not so happy with Amazon these days). If you're a completist, this has better be on your shelf..