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This time next week we will be in a Global Time-Slip to benefit The PKD Festival! The point of this $10 online teleconference is to keep the cost down for in-person conference in California. Next sunday includes @kyliu99.bsky.social @lavietidhar.bsky.social @brianevenson.bsky.social , and more..

A ★★★★ review of The Partisan (2024) Pretty epic WW II film for Polish film commission budget. Great lead performance from an actor unknown to me. The movie gets better as it goes, with a super-powerful last 40 minutes.

I am always down for WW II movie, and proper revenge on Nazis tales. This movie, shot on the Polish film commission part, is pretty epic. The last forty minutes were much stronger than the rest. Great ending.
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Dirty as hell.

Book Review: The Ganymedan R.T. Ester The Ganymedan R.T. Ester 416 pages, Paperback Published November, 2025 by Solaris   This was an impulse grab at the library, and I knew a...

Book Review up for a debut SF novel. AI starship picks up a murder suspect on Mars... IT was little long, but over all I enjoyed it.

Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was” Here in the twenty-twenties, a young reader first hearing of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four would hardly imagine it to be a work of science fiction.

Honestly I would love to see Orwell's Diss track on Foundation. In this case I find Asimov's take lacks a little imagination. Orwell's surrealism was not a good match for Asimov. Team Orwell here.

A ★★★★ review of Lost Command (1966) This is like the Hollywood take on the Battle of Algiers that is a 7/5 stars movie, and I am grading on a curve a bit. Anthony Quinn plays a French (I know he doesn't try to actually be French) peasan...

The Hollywood shitty version of Battle of Algiers doesn't sugar coat how bad the French occupation was. Flawed but interesting 60s war movie.

Book Review: A Spectre is Haunting Texas by Fritz Leiber A Spectre is Haunting Texas by Fritz Leiber  197 pages, Ace Books Mass Market Paperback First published, 1968 This book is an insane thi...

Totally Bonkers bizarro alt-history novel about 8-Tall foot Texans who control most of North America who having to deal with rebels from the moon colonies. How did this novel happen?

A ★★ review of Neighbors (1981) Blushi and Akroyd are hilarious but this pre-The Burbs movie is pretty terrible. Blushi had one line that I almost fell out of my chair on. The worst part is the score is painful and stupid.

Terrible score makes this weird comedy almost unwatchable.

Thanks for coming!

San Diego celebrated the 100th Birthday of Amazing Stories and Science Fiction in style. I was very proud to host this amazing panel of authors and teachers at Verbatim Books.

Book Review: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz 163 pages, Hardcover Published August, 2025 by Tordotcom   My first experience with this author was at...

Excellent new SF about bots opening a ghost kitchen. I am surprised that I was so invested in AI taking the jobs of cooks. Great world building.

A ★★★★★ review of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Nia Decosta directed the hell out of this movie that was to me, much more solidly directed than the first 28 years, although I loved bits of that one very deeply. The Jimmi's at the start and end of t...

I really liked 28 Years Later, and while certain aspects of the story in the first one connected with me more, this second was even better directed. Nia Decosta is one heck of a horror director.

A ★★★★★ review of Raining in the Mountain (1979) Another one of those King Hu's 70's films that I looked for desperately on DVD, that is just straight chillin on Tubi. Many of you would find this boring. There is really only two scenes of Wuxia wire...

Most will find this King Hu film boring, but the locations are amazing, and the final scene is insane. Also crazy is during the DVD days I tried to find this failed. Now it is get hangin on Tubi. Wild.
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We have not booked guests for April yet, in part because on 4/26 we having our all day telethon to raise funds for PKD fest : www.philipkdickfest.com/telethon

Book Review: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim 368 pages, Hardcover Expected publication: June 2, 2026 Of the most anticipated science fiction novels of th...

David Agranoff review Sublimation here: davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2026/02/book...

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

We will be talking about her short story Wire Mother and her forthcoming debut novel, Sublimation due out from Tor in June. So we will be talking robots, immigration, and dopplegangers and much more.

Read Wire Mother here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

Hey Everyone, April 7th PKD hangout information Tuesday April 7th 9PM EST/ 6 PM PST

This week we welcome the Nebula award-winning author @isabel.kim

Book Review: The Gatepost by Tim Weed The Gatepost by Tim Weed 264 pages, Paperback Expected publication: May 26, 2026 by Podium Publishing Very rare that an author comes out...

Book review. I loved this author's last novel the Afterlife Project, I struggled with this one. I think some of you will like better than me. Shamen visionquest novels are not my thing. Just being honest.

Book Review: Horror Library, Volume 9 edited by Eric J. Guignard Horror Library, Volume 9 edited by Eric J. Guignard 340 pages, Paperback Published February 3, 2026 by Dark Moon Books special guest-artis...

Book Review up +Horror Library +@ericjguignard.bsky.social is one of the most consistent editors in Horror fiction

Give me follow good chance but I recommend people come live so they can interact as well.

@htranbui.bsky.social Listening to your Dax episode, since you talking about Dorthy Fontana...if you have a Sunday afternoon free April 12th, I am doing an online lecture about her. Lots of Star Trek TOS inter-office memos, Behind the Scenes info about this badass writer. I think you would dig it!

Book Review: The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck  112 pages, Paperback Published November, 1995 by Penguin Books  So I found this book in a tiny libra...

Book review up! Yeah it is propaganda, but that is not always a dirty word. Steinbeck's 1942 warning about Nazi occupation is sadly still an important read.

Wow check out the schedule for our international online conference and Fundraiser April 26th. @kyliu99.bsky.social @brianevenson.bsky.social Sarah Langan, @lavietidhar.bsky.social, Ray Nayler, Umberto Rossi, and more..

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PFDW Episode #196 Star Trek Starfleet Academy S1 Roundtable W/ Issa Diao and Sara L. Mischener Podcast Episode · Postcards from a Dying World · March 30 · 2h 27m

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PFDW Episode #196 Star Trek Starfleet Academy S1 Roundtable W/ Issa Diao and Sara L. Mischener YouTube video by David Agranoff

Sara and Issa are back for our 13th episode breaking down a season of Star Trek. I am the minority report being the most critical but if you are looking SFA hate I will save you the time.
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Excited to talk about it when the time comes.

Book Review: Dead But Still Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay Dead But Still Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay 336 pages, Hardcover, Expected publication: June 30, 2026, by William Morrow   ...

Book Review for the upcoming @paultremblay.bsky.social novel. So what does a PKD obsessive think of this novel? The publisher calls it "PKD meets the Coen Brothers." This Science fiction horror novel is ready to ontological on your ass.

A ★★★★★ review of The Gun (2025) Amazing animated take on the early PKD story. Pretty and excellently made animated short by a San diego director.

Excellent short PKD film by a San Diego artist.
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April 12th I am doing a FREE lecture/workshop on the impact of Dorthy Fontana. She was a badass trailblazer, I am going to highlight her impact on the genre by going under the hood looking at inter-office memos and letters - deep from the Roddenberry papers at UCLA. Can't miss talk for TOS fans.