The American SF author Tom Disch founded the Philip K Dick award and “only discovered after Phil’s death that I was under investigation by the FBI thanks to Phil”. Photograph: Allstar/Wareners/Sportsphoto Ltd./AllstarChosen by Adam RobertsWhen I was a teenager, and despite the fact that money was short, I splashed out on the collected short fiction of Philip K Dick – four hefty paperback volumes, which I still have, and still read. Selections of this home-brew theology have been published under the title The Exegesis of Philip K Dick, and they make for wild reading, equal measures bonkers and astonishing. Philip K Dick, though, is the anti-Descartes. Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams airs on Channel 4 in September.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2017 08:26 UTC