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Philip K. Dick Sci Fi Conference at CSU Fullerton

Posted on 1 May 2016 by

A great big “Thank You!” to Cal State Fullerton for hosting the 2016 Philip K. Dick Conference. The event was organized by the Acacia group and pillared by Fullerton’s department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics, in the college of Humanities … Continue reading →

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For The Science Fiction Enthusiast – Bradbury, Dick, Zelazny, & The Technological Trinity

Posted on 3 March 2013 by

I admire the pulpy heyday of clear-voiced, under-edited science fiction writers like Roger Zelazny, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick. I feel their generation of science fiction writers will be looked back on as the first to establish science fiction’s … Continue reading →

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What Is Science Fiction?

Posted on 11 October 2011 by

  What is science fiction? Spacecraft, phasers, and aliens? Cyborgs and genetic mutants? Post-apocalyptic imaginings of a mundane world starved of resources? Is it fantasy based on uncertain and potentially disastrous scientific advances, as in The Invisivle Man of H. … Continue reading →

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