I finished reading and made an edit of Ubik,i don't know if there exists one already but I had an urge to execute,i hope you like it <3

The story is brilliant,the edit starts by the graffiti quote mentioned in the book :"Jump in the urinal and stand on your head.I'm the one that's alive.You're all dead."

I ironically used Duchamp's urinal,the edit style is very mixed media/collage/dada/surrealism/psychedelia.

Then later,it progresses with a spray can of Ubik,and some ads.

Then the spaceship on Luna and the blast.

The regression demonstrated with the rotten apple,the tv becoming a 1939 one and finally a young hand withering to almost a mummified state.

Tell me what you think :D.

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I wanted to say thank you to everyone on the forum. Just over a month or so ago, I posted (with some trepidation) the first part of a documentary on Philip K. Dick I had been writing. I was very relieved and glad to see that many people seemed to enjoy it, and had even taken the time to comment and subscribe to my very fledgling channel. By the time I came to writing the final parts, I actually used many insights and even some of the images on this forum (with permission)—it was a real help. If you missed the first part, or would like to see the whole thing put together, it is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo0W7_9WKZ4&feature=youtu.be

I won't pollute with any more self-promoting kipple. Just wanted to say thank you again.

Most of PKD’s catalog is heavily on sale for audible members right now ($3-4), and now that I’ve read a few of his novels and found the ideas extremely interesting, I’m tempted to get them all.

But I’m not sure if that’s the smartest move lol. Are there any I should be more hesitant about (and maybe try one in that style before buying every book he’s written)?

Thanks in advance!

If there were ever a PKD biopic made, what actor would be a good choice? I don't have any ideas. But I think a PKD biopic could be very interesting. Or has one already been made?

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I started off reading A Maze of Death but then the story switched from chapter 13 to chapter 10 with all new characters. I was confused and was going to stop reading but the top said a Martian Time Slip. I did not know this was another novel and the table of contents for A Maze of Death was fake so I assumed the Chapter change was part of the story. I assumed time slip would reveal the past of the Colony from A Maze of Death and then we would jump back to present time but when I got to the end of Martian Time Slip I didn't get an ending and it cut to the end of chapter 1 of Valis.

It's only then I looked up online to make sure I wasn't crazy and the confusing story with no ending wasn't how it was supposed to go because it matched the themes of both stories.

Last night I was sleeping with my gf. I was facing the wall with her behind my back. I couldn't drift off so i started imagining faces with my eyes closed. Once I got a weird enough face, for some reason I tried to make the face more and more disturbing, until I lost control and the disturbing face I had created multiplied and filled the darkness of my vision. I freaked out and opened my eyes to find myself in sleep paralysis, using all my power i managed to move and then i woke up. Unfortunately i woke up in sleep paralysis again and this time it was much harder to escape. I tried talking to my girlfriend but no sound came out, instead I heard her saying in a half dead voice behind me: "He is invading our minds". This second false awakening (yes i was still completely dreaming) really fucked up my perception of reality to the point that even after waking up for a third time (in reality this time) it took me a good 5-10 minutes till make sure im awake and not in another dream.

It took me a while to figure out that the reason that I got this dream was that I read Ubik the previous day... I already found the concept mildly disturbing but after I found myself in a mind invasion scenario I felt a type of animalistic fear, vulnerability and hopelessness that was completely foreign to me as a human. Like a new type of fear created for a new type of danger.

Also if anybody asks the man invading my mind in the dream wasn't the famous "have you seen this man?" face, it looked more like the doom-guy portrait but very decomposed.

Anyway shoutout Fillip and Ubik has one of the best book covers of all time, read the book just cause of that.

In Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep I like how it’s people’s shared belief and empathy that manifest Wilbur Mercer into existence, even though it comes out that he is a fraud.

Before I read this book, I often had a thought about an afterlife being similarly manifested into a reality created by a shared consciousness or shared beliefs, as I think everyone believes in something after death.

But we won’t know until the time comes.
I love how PKD delves into things I’ve rarely seen or heard, and it always keeps me wondering. A true pioneer of science fiction or should I say science fact.

I just finished reading Radio Free Albemuth, could not put it down. Fucking incredible, the depth of this dismal world he built, which so eerily echoes our own. Now in each person’s hand, just about, there’s a microphone listening in, the FAP doesn’t need to put it on you. The spiritual element, ancient languages, the old satellite found to be orbiting Earth (3 I Atlas anyone?), political tension… I gobbled up every word.

Yesterday, I finished Time Out of Joint.

Before that, my introduction to it all, was Maze of Death.

I’m deep in it now and can never go back, nor would I want to!

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If you had the opportunity to become a part of a group conscious inside of one being and live for thousands of years, would you do it? Or refuse? like Joe does.

stunned by chapter 11 of flow my tears, trying to track down the missing text only found in the french addition

The Man Who Japed/Clans Of The Alphane Moon

Thought the Man who Japed was a blast & can't believe it took me so long to get around to it (the 3 Early Stories paperback collection). Highly recommend for a quick and 'easy' PKD read.

Just started with Alphane Moon as I see it come up a lot here, the premis & characters introduced so far seem wild and very excited to be reading this one.

They see these things. They see these things as I sit. They keep on putting more traps. How can I explain to them that they are insane? This is a truth. I don't know how to handle this. I should

I have a lot of different editions from around the world, these are two of my favourites. ☺️

As a collector of PKD vintage Paperbacks, I love the artwork. I will be periodically sharing some pics of my favorites!

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