A versatile spray can.>
An alarming perfume (via Rachel Martin).
A Philip K. Dick fan site with links to (nonacademic) resources.
Another fan site (largely for book collectors): The Phildickian. Lethem's essay on Dick.
PKD with our favorite accessory, probably from the early 1960s.
Some of the many covers for Dick's many books.
The most important of the many films made from Dick's work. Another. And another.
An important contributor to Dick's voluminous output.
An era of suspicion, if not paranoia.
One visual figure for Dick's aesthetic goals.
Also important to Dick's vision.
Stuck in a box.
Someone is almost always watching.
Who are you? What's wrong with you?
On the "Dies Irae": from the Catholic Encyclopedia, and one of many English translations.
An image of entropy. A big fan of entropy.
Another image of entropy. Another image of where we end up. (Note both names.)
New Yorker writer Gopnik on the Dick revival.
About Dick's Exegesis (1974), with an excerpt.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Heinlein, Campbell, Asimov
A case for sf today, from The Atlantic.
Lots of pix of midcentury US sf fans.
An ethos fostered though not quite created by John W. Campbell.
A cover from Astounding (1941) that illustrated Heinlein's "Universe."
Another Campbell-era Astounding cover, from 1940.
A mid-1960s paperback cover for Stranger.
Midcentury sf spaceship designs.
How artificial gravity works (simplest version).
An object of non-falsifiable (hermeneutic) interpretation.
An object on which hypotheses can be tested.
The original for "Nevertheless, it still moves!"
Generation ship plots in television.
Rudyard Kipling, beloved of Heinlein and poet of engineers.
Kipling also wrote science fiction.
Pulp-era robots were scary.
The first sf robots, from Capek's R.U.R. Imagining friendly, even very friendly robots.
Sf writers who wrote only for fans, who in turn often read only sf. Sigh.
In popular film and television SF, viewers are encouraged to identify themselves with revolutionaries, not with the people in charge.
Lots of pix of midcentury US sf fans.
An ethos fostered though not quite created by John W. Campbell.
A cover from Astounding (1941) that illustrated Heinlein's "Universe."
Another Campbell-era Astounding cover, from 1940.
A mid-1960s paperback cover for Stranger.
Midcentury sf spaceship designs.
How artificial gravity works (simplest version).
An object of non-falsifiable (hermeneutic) interpretation.
An object on which hypotheses can be tested.
The original for "Nevertheless, it still moves!"
Generation ship plots in television.
Rudyard Kipling, beloved of Heinlein and poet of engineers.
Kipling also wrote science fiction.
Pulp-era robots were scary.
The first sf robots, from Capek's R.U.R. Imagining friendly, even very friendly robots.
Sf writers who wrote only for fans, who in turn often read only sf. Sigh.
In popular film and television SF, viewers are encouraged to identify themselves with revolutionaries, not with the people in charge.
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