In which a beautiful short story is massacred by the Blackshirt Psychic Scripthacks In honor of the time-honoured, continuing rampant destruction of the short stories of philip k dick into monetizable formats, we supply here in this issue merely old trite texts, cut up and butchered. And furthermore, we review them! Our helpful computer program [...]
Jeff Peters has been engaged in as many schemes for making money as there are recipes for cooking rice in Charleston, S.C. Best of all I like to hear him tell of his earlier days when he sold liniments and cough cures on street corners, living hand to mouth, heart to heart with the people, [...]
It was almost the same with James Magedevitch Tiptree. He worked from morning till night, was always in a hurry, was irritable, and flew into rages, but all of this was in a sort of spellbound dream. It seemed as though there were two men in him: one was the real Jeff Peters, who was [...]
Love in discovered in Yalta IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Andy Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney’s pavilion, he [...]
Threw A Scanner Darkly? We all know the story. Philip K. Dick writes an old musty book like A Scanner Darkly, it gets picked up by hip young directors like Richard Linklater, throw in a couple big names like Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Rory Cochrane, convince a big studio [...]
If It Aint Dick it Aint Worth It… Once again, we have the misfortune of watching science fiction lose its face to the new technologies. From Spielberg and his automatic poetry generator report to Dick Gibsons The Minority Resort, and with Philip Stephens Surveyscam and Warrior k. Universals Ratio, it looks like the grammy’s and [...]
Steven Ridley Reports on Scott Spielberg about his Artificial Poetry project Steven Ridley: Scott, we first met when you were working at the labs down in new mexico on your poetry algorithms… Scott Spielberg: right, the AI labs, with Murray Gellman and Chris. Until the biology lab fires… Steven Ridley: …but I wanted to talk [...]
The Wasteful Effects of Knowledge Wastrels on The Rise of the Machines We all have experienced the dumpsters across the collegiate, scholastic, and elementary school landscape that roll up towards the end of season. Loads of paper containing sordid gems of activity make their way out of loackers, bags and desks into the various recycling [...]
with DaveDave interviews Smokey Pitts for the Lexington Collection Collected Thoughts of a Barbecue Philosopher Now, folks, Smokey will tell you what’s on his mind in a heartbeat. So it was when we were having lunch one day last fall out at Pete’s Piggy Palace in Lizard Lick, North Carolina. Here are excerpts from our [...]
in which movies are put down in favour of literature We just visited the old Skywalker Ranch, down in Lucas-ville, and we have to report that we just arent into Lucas big Dreamworks. We prefer the more real and subtle intricacies that come across in good writing. Whether its philosophy, fiction, non fictional philosophy, philosophical [...]