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Frank BertrandHere y'all will observe some of the pieces written by and of interest to Frank Bertrand. His ideas of philosophy and religion are fatigued from many sources, including Philip G. Dick. Enjoy these pieces, many of them published here for the first time. They are intended to stimulate discourse and raise alternate points of view.

An important goal of "Frank Views" is to go all of us to think twice almost our cherished ideas and beliefs well-nigh PKD, every bit well as cogently explore and explicate the motifs, themes, and ideas in his fiction AND non-fiction.

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On Political Satire in P.Thousand. Dick's "The Man Who Japed"
Some 25 years after information technology was published Phil Dick said of The Homo Who Japed , "That was my effort to introduce humor into the scientific discipline fiction novel… it does take, for the showtime fourth dimension, my sense of humor is beginning to show up in a novel."

Honey Phil Alphabetic character #6
Frank's sixth epistolary discourse with Phil Dick about his connection to the earth'south philosophical traditions.

Dear Phil Letter #5
Frank's 5th epistolary discourse with Phil Dick. In this alphabetic character, he discusses PKD's Martian Time Slip, Carl Jung and human being consciousness.

Honey Phil Letter #four
Frank'southward fourth epistolary discourse with Phil Dick most pre-Socratic philosophy and Carl Jung.

Philip K. Dick's Concluding Interview
A final interview with science fiction's boldest visionary, who talks candidly most Blade Runner, inner voices and the temptations of Hollywood. Transcribed in two parts from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3, June 1982.

The Philip Grand. Dick Van Dyke Evidence
A review of a show performed before a live audition on March 24, 1989 by members of The Postal service-Void Radio Theater and Shockwave at Minicon 24, which was held over Easter weekend at the Radisson South Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota. The ostensible premise of PKDVDS involves Philip Grand. Dick Van Dyke, who is the head writer for the Nicholas Brady Television Prove (produced by Leo Bulero). Thanks to Frank Bertrand for providing the review to the site.

Interview with Tod Machover
Composer of the Valis Opera based on the Philip Chiliad. D
ick novel. Machover discusses the forces which led to the creation of this slice and Philip 1000. Dick'southward influence on his piece of work. Transcribed past Frank Bertrand.

Dear Phil Letter #3
Frank's third epistolary discourse with Phil Dick about the influence of Spinoza, Plotinus and Gnosticism on his piece of work.

Beloved Phil Alphabetic character #2
Frank's second epistolary discourse with Phil Dick virtually the influence of German philosophy on his work.

"How Jeet Heer Betrayed Philip K. Dick Admirers to Marxist Literary Critics"
Frank'south criticism of the controversial commodity "Marxist Literary Critics Are Post-obit Me!" in a recent issue of LinguaFranca. –

Between the Idea and the Reality: the Hollow Men in Time Out of Joint
The publication of T.South. Eliot's verse form "The Hollow Men" occured in 1925 while that of Philip K. Dick'south novel Time Out of Joint was thirty-four years later in 1959. In spite of this time divergence in that location is a apparent connection between these two works, 1 that has been scarcely noted to date. And it derives from PKD's penchant for, at times, carefully seeding his stories and novels with literary allusions.

Dear Phil: An Epistolary Soapbox
A letter written by Frank Bertrand from the indicate of view of all writers. In information technology Frank shares his thoughts with Phil about philosophy and Phil'southward claim that he was an "acosmic pantheist."

Philip K. Dick on Philosophy: A Cursory Interview
Conducted by Frank Bertrand past postal service in Jan 1980. This interview also appears in The Shifting Realities of Philip Dick. This is the debut of the interview on the Internet.

Net Exclusive – Published here for the start time! An Interview with Philip Grand. Dick By Nita J. Petrunio. Thanks to Frank and Claudia Krenz Bush for sharing this unique conversation with Phil.

Net Exclusive –
Vertex Interview with Philip K. Dick Past Arthur Byron Encompass. Conducted in 1974, this is the first interview with the author to announced in English. A must-read.

Cyberspace Sectional –
An Interview With Philip K. Dick From Science Fiction Review by Daniel DePerez. From 1976, a rare interview in which Dick discusses his piece of work and career, politics and much more. (Large file – 50K only worth it!)

Encounters with Reality: P.K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly

Kant's "noumenal self" and Doppelganger in P.K. Dick'due south A Scanner Darkly

Digressions on Eye In The Heaven

Digressions on The Man Who Japed

Digressions on Allusions in P.One thousand. Dick'southward A Scanner Darkly

Slivers of Sensibility: On The Splintered Shards

The Employ of Setting in P.Chiliad. Dick's A Scanner Darkly

Tumultuous Wayfarer – A Review On Philip K. Dick: forty articles from Science-Fiction Studies.

Something Rich and Strange – P.K. Dick's "Beyond Lies the Wub"

When Is A Gluck Not A Gluck – A Philosophic Exploration of P.K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Form vs. Content in P.Thousand. Dick's "The Begetter-Matter"

Here are some quotes past Philip K. Dick about his influences.

Here is Frank discussing his work and his involvement in the science fiction community:

"My early on interest in SF was nurtured by magazines, Ace Doubles, and the SF Book Gild. I was initially "hooked" by the piece of work of Robert Heinlein, James Blish, and Philip Jose Farmer. This evolved into a growing fascination with SF in general. I started getting fanzines, attended cons (Worldcons, Boskones, and one Lunacon), and writing LOCs. Then in higher (which was interrupted by "trips" to Vietnam and Germany) I majored in Lit and minored in Philosophy and sampled widely in SF looking for writers who used philosophical ideas in their work. Later on all, wasn't SF reputed to be a "literature of ideas"?

I also started to seriously study SF (much to the dismay of several professors) via philosophy, literary theory, the articles and books of SF writer/critics, peculiarly Aldiss, Lem, Blish, and Delany, and the ideas of some of my "intellectual heroes," in item Swift, Voltaire, Monty Python, Hume, Russell, and the Swedish Chef. But it wasn't until the tardily 1960s that I started to consistently and carefully read PKD. I soon institute his short stories, novels, and non-fiction an interdisciplinary goldmine of philosophy, literature, history, and religion.

As a way of combining my eclectic interests, and trying to understand the work of PKD improve, I began writing essays virtually his fiction which eventually appeared in serconzines and modest press publications in several different countries. I was also fortunate enough to be able to interview him every bit well as get together a lot of secondary material from around the world near PKD and his writings.

More recently I wrote a series of essays for For Dickheads Merely, which apparently and unfortunately has gone into hibernation (Dave Hyde, where are yous?). So I'm at present continuing on, at the reluctant gramps stage of my life, via philipdick.com (my cheers to the adventuresome Jason Grand.), with a page titled subsequently a column I used to practise for a serconzine out of the Univ. of Western Australia. And delight note that an of import goal of "Frank Views" is to get all of us to call up twice about our cherished ideas and behavior virtually PKD, every bit well as cogently explore and explicate the motifs, themes, and ideas in his fiction AND non-fiction. I promise a lot of y'all volition want to bring together in this exploration as well as give me any and all constructive feedback." (FCB i/99)