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

[Thomas Beshear]

All, or almost all, of the novels in those two PKD collections from LoA were 
already in print at the time, but they were available only in trade 
paperback editions, which are not sturdy for library use: Vintage Library 
publishes them; I have the ones for Ubik and The Man in the High Castle. 
Vintage did a good job of re-releasing most of Dick's novels, tho' the 
volumes cried out for introductory essays to educate this potential new 
generation of readers.

I would like to see more attention paid to his mainstream novels -- a couple 
of them are quite fine: Confessions of a Crap Artist and Puttering About in 
a Small Land.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "Kai Frederik Lorentzen" <lorentzen at hotmail.de>; "pynchon -l" 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: 5 Ways Phillip K Dick's Insanity Changed the World of Movies


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.

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