5 Ways Phillip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies

[Mark Kohut]

Here is a, perhaps interesting, bit of book industry fact with one major reason 
to explain it.

The Library of America Philip K. Dick novels were/are the fastest selling LofA 
yet published. (Many
much older volumes have higher sales over their longer in print time) 

Some say it is because the Lof A sorta went slumming in "popular 
fiction"........Most know that that
is wrong and ignorant in a number of ways BUT...............

Sales of LofA Dick, however, are mich higher than say, Cheever, Roth and Updike 
into libraries BECAUSE
unlike those LofA authors libraries had almost no PK Dick in stock because he 
was published as
pulp fiction mostly, no marketing campaigns, few reviewers' copies, no 
hardcovers, etc.......

I hope his estate, his kids, are getting (relatively) rich showing good karmic 
adjustment...



----- Original Message ----
From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 7:41:00 AM
Subject: Re: 5 Ways Phillip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies


When I read "Ubik" I thought that all that plundering by movies and TV --- 
"Brazil", "Futurama" and
"Matrix" come to mind first --- does not even come close to the enthralling 
effect of the book itself.

They should have given PKD the National Book Award for this masterpiece.

On 28.03.2011 03:12, Jordan Hunnicutt wrote:

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