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The Philip K. Dick Award is an American science fiction award given annually at Norwescon and sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) the Philip K. Dick Trust. Named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick , it has been awarded since 1983, the year after his death.
If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others", also known as the "Metz speech", is a 1977 speech and essay by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. He delivered it as the guest of honor on September 24, 1977, at the Second Metz International Science Fiction Festival in Metz, France .
The Android and the Human" is a speech given by science-fiction author Philip K. Dick at the Vancouver Science Fiction Convention, taking place at the University of British Columbia in December 1972. [1] It was subsequently published in the fanzine SF Commentary, issue 31.
The Philip K. Dick Society was an organization dedicated to promoting the literary works of Dick and was led by Dick's longtime friend and music journalist Paul Williams. Williams also served as Dick's literary executor [ 139 ] for several years after Dick's death and wrote one of the first biographies of Dick, entitled Only Apparently Real ...
A Scanner Darkly is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, published in 1977.The semi-autobiographical story is set in a dystopian Orange County, California, in the then-future of June 1994, and includes an extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use (both recreational and abusive).
The actor revisited the speech he read at a 1964 civil rights event, ... Dick Van Dyke, 98, Who Once Shared Podium with MLK Jr., Makes Rare Appearance to Encourage Voting: 'Hatred Is Not the Norm ...
Philip K. Dick, The Little Black Box, 1964 - a short story depicting Mercerisms origin, published 4 years prior to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Criticism. Benesch, Klaus (1999). "Technology, Art, and the Cybernetic Body: The Cyborg As Cultural Other in Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".
In 1943, English actor Greer Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress and spoke for an undefeated four minutes. Clémence Michallon revisits this page in Oscars history ... The speech, sadly ...