Sci fi fantasy video

[Tonypimpskin]

Did the DVD ever go on sale? I DMd them like a man about it like two months ago, and they said there will be one, but I still haven't seen it on the site.

 they got them on skate warehouse

[No Wave Comply]

I don’t know how many Neuromancer fans there are on here, but they dropped a Neuromancer hat on Thursday. It’s my favorite book (sci fi is my favorite genre), so I had to order it right at noon on Thursday. It then came in the mail yesterday. That’s the fastest shipping I’ve experienced.

You could say their shipping department is on Mona Lisa Overdrive. 

[GaryDahLegend]

if your woman's a ghost, she doesn't know it. neither will you.

[MuggsyU]

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I don’t know how many Neuromancer fans there are on here, but they dropped a Neuromancer hat on Thursday. It’s my favorite book (sci fi is my favorite genre), so I had to order it right at noon on Thursday. It then came in the mail yesterday. That’s the fastest shipping I’ve experienced.

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You could say their shipping department is on Mona Lisa Overdrive. 

Never thought I would ever see a Mona Lisa Overdrive joke on Slap.

if your woman's a ghost, she doesn't know it. neither will you.

Amazing. I wish I could rep both of you.

[Bobbybanana]

I was too distracted by the Mona Lisa quote to even notice they actually dropped a neuromancer collab.

[No Wave Comply]

Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

[argggghhhhhhh]

Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

[double fakie ollie grind]

Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

[No Wave Comply]

Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

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This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

[argggghhhhhhh]

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Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

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Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

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This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

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Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

Just got a scanner darkly, very excited to tuck into that when work slows down. Harlan ellison is a goat as well.

Could also be sick to do something with ted chiang or cixin liu.

[jfrankparnell]

I bought the Neuromancer hat right at noon too and was also surprised to find it on my doorstep the following day.

I want this PKD shirt:

[No Wave Comply]

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Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

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Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

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This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

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Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

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Just got a scanner darkly, very excited to tuck into that when work slows down. Harlan ellison is a goat as well.

Could also be sick to do something with ted chiang or cixin liu.

Not familiar with these SF writers. It's nice to get recs outside my usual bubble. Cheers!

I bought the Neuromancer hat right at noon too and was also surprised to find it on my doorstep the following day.

I want this PKD shirt:

My man loved cats.

[MuggsyU]

I bought the Neuromancer hat right at noon too and was also surprised to find it on my doorstep the following day.

I want this PKD shirt:

I just got this “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” shirt and wore it to work because it was the last day of Read Across America week. My students only noticed Dick on the shirt and couldn’t believe anyone’s name is Dick.

I wore my Neuromancer shirt with my Sci-Fi Fantasy hoodie the day before along with my Akira hat. I did wear the Neuromancer hat to start off the week.

[spooky electric]

Is Jerry's 'Dues Ex Machina' board a typo gone into production or a joke I don't get?

[No Wave Comply]

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I bought the Neuromancer hat right at noon too and was also surprised to find it on my doorstep the following day.

I want this PKD shirt:

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I just got this “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” shirt and wore it to work because it was the last day of Read Across America week. My students only noticed Dick on the shirt and couldn’t believe anyone’s name is Dick.

I wore my Neuromancer shirt with my Sci-Fi Fantasy hoodie the day before along with my Akira hat. I did wear the Neuromancer hat to start off the week.

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Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

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Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

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This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

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Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

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Just got a scanner darkly, very excited to tuck into that when work slows down. Harlan ellison is a goat as well.

Could also be sick to do something with ted chiang or cixin liu.

Cixin Liu is personally responsible for my biggest existential crisis.

[argggghhhhhhh]

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Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

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Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

[close]

This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

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Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

[close]

Just got a scanner darkly, very excited to tuck into that when work slows down. Harlan ellison is a goat as well.

Could also be sick to do something with ted chiang or cixin liu.

[close]

Not familiar with these SF writers. It's nice to get recs outside my usual bubble. Cheers!

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I bought the Neuromancer hat right at noon too and was also surprised to find it on my doorstep the following day.

I want this PKD shirt:

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My man loved cats.

I'm pretty sure pkd was investigated by the cia as well, def need to read more of his work.

can this become a sci fi thread until they post another video or something

also they could do a video called reason where skateboard robots (the team) refuse to believe that there is anything to skate other than skate parks, and visit some wild parks with single trick clips from singular parks to mesh the parks together like a park library. Meanwhile, jerry tries to convince them that there is more to skate than just parks but ultimately fails and is overthrown by the park skating montage.

[Cthulhu!]

Sci-Fi literature recommendations are very neat. Please post more.

Also
DVD copies are out there
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https://orchardshop.com/products/sci-fi-fantasy-endless-beauty-dvd
https://seasonsskateshop.com/products/sci-fi-fantasy-endless-beauty-dvd-copy
https://atlasskateboarding.com/products/sci-fi-fantasy-endless-beauty-dvd

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Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

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Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

[close]

This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

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Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

[close]

Just got a scanner darkly, very excited to tuck into that when work slows down. Harlan ellison is a goat as well.

Could also be sick to do something with ted chiang or cixin liu.

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Not familiar with these SF writers. It's nice to get recs outside my usual bubble. Cheers!

Ted Chiang wrote ‘Story of Your Life’ which became the movie Arrival. I’m not deep in the sci-fi like some of you, but I like him a lot.

There’s a copy here for anyone who wants to read it; it’s a short story if that helps:

https://fyp.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/chiang_story_of_your_life.pdf

[MuggsyU]

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Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

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Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

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This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

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Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

[close]

Just got a scanner darkly, very excited to tuck into that when work slows down. Harlan ellison is a goat as well.

Could also be sick to do something with ted chiang or cixin liu.

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Not familiar with these SF writers. It's nice to get recs outside my usual bubble. Cheers!

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I bought the Neuromancer hat right at noon too and was also surprised to find it on my doorstep the following day.

I want this PKD shirt:

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My man loved cats.

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I'm pretty sure pkd was investigated by the cia as well, def need to read more of his work.

can this become a sci fi thread until they post another video or something

also they could do a video called reason where skateboard robots (the team) refuse to believe that there is anything to skate other than skate parks, and visit some wild parks with single trick clips from singular parks to mesh the parks together like a park library. Meanwhile, jerry tries to convince them that there is more to skate than just parks but ultimately fails and is overthrown by the park skating montage.

I think Jerry would be proud of this thread being turned into a science fiction thread.

I’m currently reading Ubik. About halfway done and really enjoying it. Afterwards I’m going to start When Gravity Fails.

I also just read an article in Simon Reynolds’ book Futurorama where he argues there’s not much music in Sci-fi literature. I have to agree with his article.

[spooky electric]

gurney halleck rips on the baliset in dune

[Owen]

I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

[rukes]

I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

Androids Dream is great. I think I enjoyed it more than the film. Sort of expands on a lot of stuff.

Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is great. Scanner Darkly. Ubik. Transmog of Timothy Archer. They all decent, can't really go wrong with PKD

[Gnarfunkell]

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Penultimate truth graphic could be insane, or a faith of our fathers graphic from the dangerous visions collection. I'd buy a pkd collab pretty damn quick

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Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

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This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

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Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

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Just got a scanner darkly, very excited to tuck into that when work slows down. Harlan ellison is a goat as well.

Could also be sick to do something with ted chiang or cixin liu.

Ted & Cixin are great, haven’t thought about them in a while!


I’m also a huge fan of Ray Bradbury and Ursula LeGuin.

[argggghhhhhhh]

I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

no wave comply listed some good ones, Do androids dream of electronic sheep is a great start and the penultimate truth is my personal favorite. You could start in a lot of places with pkd.

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Nice selections! Dangerous Visions is a legendary anthology. I also love Harlan Ellison.

I had the first edition mass market paperback (Belmont) of The Penultimate Truth for years, but ended up selling it because I have the 90's trade paperback Vintage edition (along with all the other PKD novels they released).

I think graphics made from any of the first edition DAW paperbacks (especially The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, or A Scanner Darkly) would be insanely nice. Same goes for the original hardcover of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, which is my favorite of his novels.

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Still holding out hope for a PKD inspired graphic or shirt.

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This would be sick. Probably a bit trickier to put together than a Gibson collab though. Gibson is on social media, alive, and into fashion. Not too hard to get ahold of and would prob be fairly easy to sell him on a clothing collab.

PKD’s estate is probably a pretty huge operation. Run by his kids from what I understand. Not sure they would give a little skate brand the time of day. Still, I’d love to see it. PKD is probably my favorite author.

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Mine too, as far as SF writers. My favorite crime writer is "Big" Jim Thompson. Both were extremely prolific and out of their minds.

As far a legal issues, I think Sci-Fi could get away with something like their recent Darth Maul graphic. I don't think they got the rights from Lucasfilm/Disney for that one.

[close]

Just got a scanner darkly, very excited to tuck into that when work slows down. Harlan ellison is a goat as well.

Could also be sick to do something with ted chiang or cixin liu.

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Ted & Cixin are great, haven’t thought about them in a while!


I’m also a huge fan of Ray Bradbury and Ursula LeGuin.

Ursula Leguin is so good. Octavia butler has some good stuff as well, gotta get that asimov going as well. So many great places to go with sci fi

[lurkluke]

I've just finished reading almost everything Alistair Reynolds wrote. I've read a bit of classic sci fi, but Alistair Reynolds is my all time favourite.

It's Space Opera/Hard Sci fi. I can recommend Chasm City, or Prefect Dreyfus as starting points for one of his universes (both pretty different though in tone, and take place in vastly different times), and House of Suns. All great reading.

[No Wave Comply]

gurney halleck rips on the baliset in dune

I wish they would have made this a thing in the Villeneuve Dune films.

I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

Nice to see everyone's great PKD recommendations. Of those mentioned, all of which are excellent, I think The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Penultimate Truth, Ubik, or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are all great starting points that are very representative of his thematic preoccupations. Other popular titles like The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and the VALIS Trilogy are also fantastic, but kind of their own trips within the world of PKD. I would check these out only if you like one or more of the introductory titles.

Some outliers to recommend which haven't been mentioned are Now Wait for Last Year and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said because besides being amongst my favorites of his, they deal with mind/reality/time-altering drugs and all have eerie parallels to the present day (alongside The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, the GOAT, and A Scanner Darkly). The cool thing about PKD is that if you like his stuff, there's a bunch of other novels and short stories to choose from. Speed tends to make one insanely prolific (as it also did for my favorite band, The Fall, and my favorite director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder).

Ursula K. LeGuin rules (loved The Left Hand of Darkness when read for a college freshman course). Other vintage SF writers I'd recommend (besides the aforementioned Harlan Ellison) are Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination), Theodore Sturgeon (More Human Than Human), and Michael Moorcock (The Final Programme).

[argggghhhhhhh]

TYNWC

[MuggsyU]

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I wish they would have made this a thing in the Villeneuve Dune films.

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I read The Day of the Triffids recently and I really enjoyed it.

I was going to say that this was the only scifi novel I have read but does Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy count? That was a fun read and again quite different to my usual reading.

I watched Blade Runner for the first time recently and loved it and have heard nothing but good things about PKD so keen to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Any recommendations for other PKD books?

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Nice to see everyone's great PKD recommendations. Of those mentioned, all of which are excellent, I think The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Penultimate Truth, Ubik, or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are all great starting points that are very representative of his thematic preoccupations. Other popular titles like The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and the VALIS Trilogy are also fantastic, but kind of their own trips within the world of PKD. I would check these out only if you like one or more of the introductory titles.

Some outliers to recommend which haven't been mentioned are Now Wait for Last Year and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said because besides being amongst my favorites of his, they deal with mind/reality/time-altering drugs and all have eerie parallels to the present day (alongside The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, the GOAT, and A Scanner Darkly). The cool thing about PKD is that if you like his stuff, there's a bunch of other novels and short stories to choose from. Speed tends to make one insanely prolific (as it also did for my favorite band, The Fall, and my favorite director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder).

Ursula K. LeGuin rules (loved The Left Hand of Darkness when read for a college freshman course). Other vintage SF writers I'd recommend (besides the aforementioned Harlan Ellison) are Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination), Theodore Sturgeon (More Human Than Human), and Michael Moorcock (The Final Programme).

Along with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears, the Policemen Said is my favorite PKD novel. I really love his short stories too. I should give The Man in the High Castle another chance. That’s the only PKD I didn’t enjoy.

Great to see a fellow fan of The Fall in here.

I need to check out The Stars My Destination, as I’m a big fan of The Demolished Man.