PKDheads Podcast

Hello everyone. Here is the twelfth episode of our Dick adjacent series and the seventh in David's Hugo's of the 60's series. Dune is up for discussion this time around. This time David is joined by editor and friend of the podcast Marissa van Uden and the Frank Herbert aficionado Michael Moore as they discuss the good the bad and the in-between on this must-read sci-fi novel. Our Patreon ►► http:...

Here is the second part of Anthony Trevino's conversation with Tessa B. Dick from last year's PKD Festival in Fort Morgan, Colorado. This type of on-the-spot interview was new to us, as was our equipment, so you may have to bear with us through some technical difficulties. However, the content is top-notch. Thanks again to Jason Bosch and also to Christine Amara for their contributions to the conv...

Hello Dickheads. This time around David and friends discuss the in's and out's of the John Brunner classic The Sheep Look Up. A novel that has been called the most accurate prediction in science fiction of the world we currently live in. From ecological disaster to a reality star president, it can all be found in this tale of an ecological dystopia that some would say hits a little too close to ho...

Note: There will definitely be a Part II coming soon. Last year our Patrons donated enough money to allow one Dickhead to travel out to Fort Morgan, Colorado, for the PKD Festival. We drew straws, and Anthony won. While he was there, amongst all the incredible fans, there came a chance to interview PKD's ex-wife, fellow writer, and close friend Tessa B. Dick. This type of on-the-spot interview was...

Dickheads Podcast ends our second season with one of PKD's most well-known novels, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? There's a lot to unpack in this novel that is often overshadowed by the immensely popular Blade Runner franchise of films, comics, and games. We do our best to discuss every aspect of the book, from religion vs. TV to would you rather hang out with androids or people. Plus: The K...

Hello Dickheads. David brought back scholar David Woken and regular guest Mark Gabrish Conlan to discuss The Moon is a Harsh Mistress winner of the Hugo Award in 1967. This novel, often referred to as his libertarian opus, would be not only the last time Robert Heinlein would win a Hugo (retro-Hugos aside) in the 60s but the last he would win ever. Mistress is a book of ideas; David and friends st...

The world has been conquered by space worms and humanity's last hope lies with a psychic revolutionary hiding from the law in the mountains of the worst place on earth, Tennessee. The Ganymede Takeover is the first of only two novels Philip K. Dick coauthored and the only one (of a planned 3) to be written with Ray Nelson. Plus: The Stones Rejected. Privileged modern babies. And Overbaked Brownie...

Hello Dickheads. Here is our latest installment of the Dick Adjacent series, and this time we are talking Norman Spinrad's controversial 1972 novel The Iron Dream. The satirical tale of a world where Hitler decided to emigrate to America and become a fiction writer instead of doing that whole World War II thing. Join David, Anthony, scholar David Woken, and regular guest Mark Gabrish Conlan as the...

Remain calm, smoke your sogum, and pay no attention to all those old-born repopulating our world. Unfortunately for Sebastian Hermes and his crew of resuscitation technicians, it's not that easy after discovering the slowly resurrecting corpse of a major religious leader. Join the DickHeads and writer/musician Jayaprakash Satyamurthy as they discuss PKD's 21st published novel, Counter-Clock World....

Hello, fellow DickHeads. Here is the eighth episode of our series on material related to the works, timeline, impact, and/or any other ties to Philip K. Dick. In this episode, David continues his series within a series about the Hugo Award winners of the 1960s with Way Station (Hugo Award for Best Novel 1964) by Clifford D. Simak. Musician, scifi fan, and old friend Matthew L. Whitaker joins David...

This time we take a look at The Zap Gun. PKD was paid to write the outline for this one and promptly ignored it entirely when it came down to the actual writing. Scott R. Jones author of Anthony's favorite book this year, Stonefish, Joins us in finding out if ignoring the outline was the right thing to do. Plus: Is a united Dickiverse that farfetched? Was this novel written 'too soon' considering...

Hello all. We here at Dickheads Podcast hope you are all staying safe and happy. Me and Anthony are holding up pretty well here in the lockdown, but David gets antsy if he's stuck in one place for too long. So, to stay sane during the COVID-19 pandemic, he decided to start doing some Zoom discussions. Our Patreon ►► http://www.patreon.com/LanghorneJTweed Find David Agranoff: Amazon ►► www.amazon.c...

David sits down with SciFi luminaries Gary K. Wolfe, Gordon Van Gelder, and F. Paul Wilson to discuss writer/editor William Anthony Parker White AKA Anthony Boucher, whom you may recognize from his countless mentions in our regular podcast. He stands, along with A.E. van Vogt and Don Wollheim, as one of the three people most responsible for getting Philip K. Dick to become a writer. Here they disc...

Evan Lampe visits David all the way from China to discuss the next set of books. Opinions vary about the quality, but there is no doubt this time in Philip K. Dick's life was productive. Plus, everything you need is inside these books. From a classical music jug band to a Christ figure selling drugs, the nerd kings discuss it all. Philip K. Dick and the World We Live In Paperback by Evan Lampe is...

"Acrid smoke billowed about him, stinging his nostrils." This line is the one said to begin the craziness that is Lies, Inc. But not its beginning. PKD's 19th novel started as a shorter work, The Unteleported Man. However, it has been published in many forms—some after Dick's death. Joining your Dickheads this time around is Writer/professor/provocateur D. Harlan Wilson lending his assistance in u...

David's back with a different set of friends to discuss the 1961 Hugo for best new novel winner, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Our Patreon ►► http://www.patreon.com/LanghorneJTweed Find A Canticle for Leibowitz: Amazon ►► https://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Leibowitz-LEIBOWITZ-May-09-2006-Paperback/dp/B0059EE0H6/ref=sr_1_4?crid=MMIFW1CEJTV5&dchild=1&keywords=a+canticle+for+leibowitz...

Hello, Dickheads. Shut-in as we are against the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we were still able to get together on Google Hangouts and have a great conversation with the President, co-Publisher, and co-Editor-in-Chief of science fiction and fantasy publisher DAW Books, Betsy Wollheim. She shares some of her vast knowledge with us built out of a lifetime in the publishing industry after being taug...

PKD's 18th published novel begins by telling us not only did human beings not originate on earth, but our progenitors have conscripted us into an unwinnable war. That's the world Dr. Virgil Sweetscent finds himself in a position to save. "Will he?" This would be the logical question to ask next, but instead, we hope you're asking, "What did DickHeads Podcast think of Now Wait for Last Year?" Plus:...

Here in our continuing series of PKD adjacent topics, David is joined once again by superfan Mark Gabrish Conlan to discuss the winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel from 1968, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. A deep dive into the story of a human orphan raised by Martians and the controversial author who wrote it. Our Patreon ►► https://www.patreon.com/LanghorneJTweed Stranger...

So, where to begin? There was some disagreement here about the overall quality of PKD's 17th published novel. One of us described it as "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe written by a room full of monkeys." Another as, "A sad wet placenta of a book." And the third said, "I didn't super like it." Join us in finding out what went right and horribly wrong in The Crack in Space. Plus: Fashionably...

Hello, Dickheads. David recently had the opportunity to interview Craig Callender professor of philosophy and co-director of the institute for practical ethics at UCSD. In this interview they discuss everything from how time is measured to why Back to the Future is terrible. Our Patreon ►► http://www.patreon.com/LanghorneJTweed Find Craig Callender: Craig's Website ►► https://ccallender7.wixsite.c...

Hello, DickHeads. Finally, after a month of holidays and a month of illness, we are back. And with something a little different. This time we got a pair of authors (Lisa Yaszek/The Future is Female and Alec Nevala-Lee/Astounding) together with LJT and David to discuss Cancel Culture and its relevance in light of the numerous award name changes; most notablyJeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance...

Well, here it is. Finally. Our discussion of Dr. Bloodmoney and I have to say; we get three very different views here. This one is a favorite amongst some brilliant people, but not amongst other brilliant people. The battle rages on. Plus: Post Apocalypse Fanboys. Flipper Baby Apologies. And the question of what's worse, Anthony's idea for a PKD's Barely Legal calendar starring a page based on Dr....

What'll it be? Can-D or Chew-Z? Both are quite a trip but watch out for the side effects. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is considered one of the MUST read novels in the PKD library. Here the DickHeads along with special guest J. David Osborne find out for themselves if this is true or not. Plus: Jailbreaking Twitter. Willy Eldritch and the Chew-Z factory. And a stigmata fleshlight. Our Pat...

Here is the first official offering of David's 1960s Hugo Award for Best Novel series. The other two Hugo winners (Man in the High Castle, Starship Troopers) are discussed in episodes of the main podcast. The entire Dick Adjacent series is dedicated to exploring the era of sci-fi in which Philip K. Dick wrote in by examining works of his contemporaries. Here, David is joined by writer/publisher Du...