Part 2 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview The Interview Philip K. Dick:  Taping– I’m gonna stop– I’m gonna stop talking like that.  Talk real talk, like real people do.  Of course, see, I can’t– Are you taping? James Holmes:  No, I’m not taping. (I was in fact taping while setting the levels for recording.) Philip

Read More »

Part 19 Phillip K Dick 1971 interview What happened A little bit of history behind the Phillip K Dick interview The Phillip K. Dick interview was made in 1971 with the intention of airing it publicly on the Stanford student radio station KZSU in early 1972. It was recorded with my Tandberg reel to reel

Read More »

Part 18 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview James Holmes:  Have you ever thought you were God? Philip K. Dick:  Only on the way to the funny farm.  On the way back I realized that I wasn’t and I was very disappointed and wanted my money back.  They said “God doesn’t need money anyway and he shouldn’t

Read More »

Part 17 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview James Holmes: Well, what would you, as an epitaph to your life, what would you. Philip K. Dick: Wait a minute, no sir. Somebody else will have to do that, I’m not going to do that. Some guy, this is what you’re supposed to do, you’re supposed to actually

Read More »

Part 16 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview James Holmes: How about it, have you read any Borges, Jorge Luis Borges? Philip K Dick:  What nationality is that? James Holmes: Argentina.   Philip K Dick:  This guy who came over from Sweden, from Swedish tv, sent me a copy of some of his stuff, said he was very

Read More »

Part 15 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview James Holmes:  What do you think of the ten, you know just list off what you would suggest other people to read which you might consider to be the ten best science fiction books? Philip K Dick: Well I’ve spent the last two months drawing up a list, I’ve

Read More »

Part 14 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview James Holmes:  Who do you think are the leading science fiction writers now? Philip K Dick:  In terms of their potential or their present ability or their past ability. James Holmes: For whatever. Philip K Dick:  Well the one things that really matters is present material and the possible future

Read More »

Part 13 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview James Holmes: If you could be anyone in history, who would you be?  Philip K Dick: As little as possible, I’d like to go in and out of history in such a way that I did not get noticed, because that is what the Nazi’s called de stille imlande and

Read More »

Part 12 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview James Holmes:  Is there any good criticism?  Philip K Dick:  What do you mean? James Holmes:  Well, you know–  Philip K Dick:  Helpful to the writer? James Holmes:  Yeah, helpful to you, or–  Philip K Dick:  Yep.  James Holmes:  You know, stuff that you could learn from. Philip K Dick:  Even irrelevant

Read More »

Part 11 Philip K Dick 1971 Interview James Holmes:  Do you think there are gonna be any science fiction pulp magazines in the future?  Do you think they are declining? Philip K Dick :  I think that the written word in many ways is declining as such, thank God, because the written word is artificial compared to

Read More »