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Books

Private Lives: Ian Penman On Rainer Werner Fassbinder

With his new book shortly to be published by Fitzcarraldo, Ian Penman talks Fassbinder, 'negative dandyism' and image addiction with Jeremy Allen
Books

Radical Speculation: Science Fiction As Revolution

Joe Banks speaks to Iain McIntyre, co-editor of illustrated essay collection *Dangerous Visions And New Worlds – Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985*
Anniversary

Behind The Walls Of The Iron Galaxy: El-P, Cannibal Ox & Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick's massive influence on underground rock is well documented but less has been said when it comes to hip hop. Eden Tizard looks, in particular at El P's Fantastic Damage and The Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox
Anniversary

Safe When Handled As Directed: Philip K Dick’s Ubik Turns 50

As Philip K Dick’s Ubik turns 50, Sean Kitching assesses the legacy of science-fiction’s greatest seer, a man who looked for God in the ephemeral detritus of American pop culture
Film

Once More With Feeling: Philip K Dick And Blade Runner

With Blade Runner 2049 in cinemas now, Robert Bright looks back at the interior and exterior worlds of Philip K. Dick
Film

Philosophy And Neon: What Makes A Good Philip K. Dick Film?

With Blade Runner 2049 released next week, Sep Gohardani takes a look back at film adaptations of Philip K Dick's work and asks what makes them successful, or not as the case may be.
Books

Collapsed Horizon: Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, 40 Years On

In the fortieth anniversary year of Philip K Dick's fortieth novel, Eli Lee finds a prescient and poignant work of grief, less concerned with sci-fi predictions of the future than with exorcising the ghosts of the past and confronting the quiet horror of addiction in the present
Books

God Is Dead – What Next? A Harry Crews Retrospective

On the weekend of what would have been the author's 79th birthday - now two years after his death - Sean Kitching takes a trip through the terrifying, grotesque and uncannily resonant world of Harry Crews
Books

Axis Of Empathy: Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle Revisited

Fifty (one) years on, Eli Lee analyses the realities and unrealities behind one of the seminal science fiction writer's densest novels
Film

Memory Pain: The Original Total Recall Revisited

Pre-empting next month's remake, Paul Verhoeven's 1990 sci-fi is being released on Blu-ray. Andrew Stimpson can remember it for you wholesale
Things I Have Learned

Things I Have Learned About Sci Fi By Neil McAdams Of Black Breath

Just stop dicking about and get into sci-fi, says Neil McAdams to Toby Cook. Some of it is about the survival of the human race, and some of it is about humanoid-ant hybrid detective stories

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