David Agranoff
@davidagranoff
Author of the Wonderland award nominated The Last Night to Kill Nazis. Postcards from a Dying World & Co-Host of the Dickheads podcasts about Philip K Dick and Sci Fi history. Columnist for Amazing Stories. Writes SF, Horror, and Bizarro. Vegan SxE
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Schedule in the comments. Free! Join us! Movie screenings, academic lectures, screenplay and play table reads, a museum of rare SF artifacts and much more . Guests of Honor Tim Powers , Brian Evenson and Sarah Langan. Release party for the first novellas of Pink beam press.
June 30th Daniel J. Solove, “Dangerous Oracles: Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, and AI Predictions.” Daniel is a Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the George Washington University Law School.
June 23rd, Caroline Bicks, Author of Monster in the Archives. Caroline is the Stephen E. King Chair at the University of Maine. She spent a year in the SK papers and wrote a book about the writing of a couple of his classic novels. This will be an archive nerd out!
June 16th, Chris Danta – Staying down under, Chris is a professor of literature in the School of Cybernetics. He presented a paper at Global Time SlipThis is a general discussion, but check out his piece “Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation.”
June 9th: Ellen J. Greenham, Professor of Comparative Literature at Murdoch University and author of After Engulfment: Cosmicism and NeoCosmicism: in Lovecraft, PKD, Heinlein, and Frank Herbert. The Australian academic will join us to talk about the topic of PKD and cosmic horror
June 2nd Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of Cabin At the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts, will talk about his PKD-influenced forthcoming novel Dead, But Still Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Pink Beam press the SF imprint of quoir is releasing special releases for pkdfestival in August. It includes my novella Sim Cop and the Haunted City. PKD fest Aug 20-23rd
Sunday!!!!! Global Time Slip!!! 1:30 PM EST/ 10:30 PST Cody Goodfellow hosts a Cyberpunk reunion with @rudytheelder.bsky.social and @johnshirley2024.bsky.social This one hour of 17 hour international Science Fiction and Philip K. Dick conference
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.
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
Remember Dickheads Podcast listeners and PKD nerds. Live PKD hangout this Saturday morning 9 am PST... Link in the comments...
Big news!!! Next book title reveal... Sim-Cop and the Haunted City* by David Agranoff (Pink Beam Press) a new imprint of @quoir
@clashbooks.bsky.social ANTiFA vampire vs A mummy revived by the Nazis. Let’s go…
The 4th Philip K. Dick Festival is coming. Submit a paper! Write a short story, Adapt a story for screenplay, join the community and explore Reality! Guests of honor Brian Evenson, Tim Powers, and Sarah Langan!
Praise for my novel, Great America in Dead World. From Ray Nayler author of Mountain in the Sea, Cody Goodfellow author of New Tomorrow and James Reich author of Skinship... Check it out...
Had an amazing time at SF in SF talking PKD’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. On the panel with Cyberpunk legend Rudy Rucker, David Gill and Tachyon publishing’s Jacob Weisman. Great audience questions, sold some books. Great time.
Last night I finished the novel Red Star Hustle by @sam.j.miller and it was amazing. It is a part of a double with @maryrobinettekowal and I will get to her half soon but picked this up at @mystgalaxybooks when Sam signed there. Great gay crime space opera. Loved it
Every Tuesday night 6 PM PST Free PKD hangout on Zoom. Think of the it as a free class on Philip K. Dick and science Fiction. the second hour we hang out and talk about what we are reading, watching, learning this week Professor John Rieder…
This week on the PKD hangout! October 28: Vincent V. Cava the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and several creep pasta tales and has a collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing the classic PKD story Beyond Lies the Wub.
Up coming PKD live hangouts! Free live discussions. This week is a big one, don’t miss it! It helps if you have read the work of the week but not required. So this week...
Finished reading the soon to be released crime thriller by cyberpunk legend @johnshirley2024.bsky.social . An editor with a past breaks bad after his son dies from an overdose and he survives a mass shooting on the same day. Finding the person responsible for his son’s death leads...