It was 27 years ago today that Philip K Dick left this dimension and began an amazing adventure Beyond.
Of all the PKD links, I chose this (top title) because the article discusses how much Phil wanted to be known as a mainstream, literary writer and not just a sci-fi hack.
Today we don't think of sci-fi writers as disparagingly as during the "peeled eyeball" phase that Phil endured. Phil called it that because he said no matter how sophisticated his story, they would create a cover with a peeled eyeball to attract the adolescent males -- the main market for the lurid covers at that time. Sci fi movies have become blockbuster hits for Hollywood, and some of the best in recent years have been made from Philip K Dick stories and novels. As I've said in my own articles, and somewhere in my novel, Phil did become mainstream and made a shitload of money -- posthumously. He certainly has been vindicated.
Last year was the 20th Anniversary of a magazine that honored Phil quite often, Sci-fi Eye
Next year, is 2010... Arthur Clarke released a sequel to his 2001: A Space Odyssey in January of 1982. That book is called 2010: odyssey two Phil probably knew all about it and read it the minute it came out. Clarke was about ten years older than Phil, from England and Phil probably enjoyed his work. Next year PKD would have been 82, 28 years after his death. (28 - 82) That's phildickian and definitely an Omen that Now is the Time to publish AKS!
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