Chuck Schumer really sucks at his job.

Saw the new Predator movie. If I only worked 4 days a week I would see more movies in the theater.

Book review up for @dharlanwilson.bsky.social 's newest novel(ish) book that takes place in a hilarious post-reality dystopia with plenty asides on science fiction, and film that descends into memoir and a weird art manifesto.

Well I am still working on a longer more detailed review but yes order this book it is fantastic.

This is my favorite interview I have done about my own fiction, and mad respect for Eric who edited in clips of Sammy Terry , Pictures of Earth Crisis and clips from the Navarone movies...

Oh hell yeah! @johnshirley2024.bsky.social interview is up on Paperback Warrior - a great podcast! Check it out!

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Kinda bonkers Korean serial killer movie. Would've been more effective if the leads were more likable. They tried to make the mob boss likable. Entertaining, but just good, not great.

ICYMI this is the panel on Severance I moderated at SFAM. IF you like Severance give it a listen...

Book review up. Well I reviewed 90% of it because I have a story in this anthology. Great stories by everyone involved.

Just finished writing notes for tomorrow's live podcast on Philip K. Dick's Mass Cultural Epistemology. Many of the questions are about how Phil's quest for knowledge made him such an extraordinary voice. John Reider, our guest, is also an expert on 19th-century proto-Sci-Fi...

A super violent Samurai movie about warring clans, one that embraces gun and technlogy and the 11 Samurai who attempt to hold their castle with swords. I mean I enjoyed it.

Saturday night Pre-dude Bridges series continues with this warmed-over turd. Only impressive thing is the entire movie has not one likable character.

Every Tuesday night 6 PM PST Free PKD hangout on Zoom. Think of the it as a free class on Philip K. Dick and science Fiction. the second hour we hang out and talk about what we are reading, watching, learning this week Professor John Rieder…

book review up. While I am not the biggest fan of the Stand, I think this anthology is a towering achievement. @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social

What makes this movie so scary is to picture this happening with the current clown show in charge. Also everyone keeps saying this is Roshomon structured, and it is not.

Full review up for the new neo-noir crime thriller from John Shirley. Pick up a copy today! A grieving father seeks to find the people that sold his son the drugs that killed him. Revenge is never simple.

One of the best books I read this year is by Korean author Bora Chung . This collection is filled with science fiction but is considered "literature," not sure if she is team Leguin or Atwood on the SF or not debate but this is great stuff. davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...

Fantastic collection review up now!

Next 4 PKD hangouts live on Zoom 6 PM PST.. join us Tonight... Vincent V. Cava: the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and the collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing one of PKD’s first stories Beyond Lies the Wub.

"Agranoff's debut is an effective, funny, serious, alarming novel that has a lot to say and a short time to get there."

tomorrow night for the PKD hangout we're talking Beyond Lies the Wub written in late 1951 with author Vincent VenaCava. As always we will also go deep into the world-building at the back story and history of Phil's life when he wrote this. Join us live 9 PM EST, 6 PM PST. Link_>

This week on the PKD hangout! October 28: Vincent V. Cava the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and several creep pasta tales and has a collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing the classic PKD story Beyond Lies the Wub.

Come on Coyotes they lock up those to kill them for profit and greed, get with the picture.

Wuxia kungfu horror comedy - like a modern mister vampire. Totally bonkers. Drags in the middle a bit trying to develop a story. Nonetheless, I had fun.

Never heard of this author, but @jamesreich.bsky.social of Stalking Horse Press was smart to send it to me. It played this stargazer like a fiddle. Full review soon.

New neo-noir crime thriller from one of my all-time favorite authors @johnshirley2024.bsky.social working on my full review but this is another great work.

Anyone who screenwrites should read this book about one writer's journey trying to develop a screenplay. He goes through every draft and how every studio person, actor and production folks changed the script. You don't have to be Trek fan to learn from it.

In case you missed it my latest column for Amazing Stories is a review of my experience at SFAM year 2 in LA.

Saturday night theme lately is pre-dude Bridges. Watched this HBO classic from the director of Return of Jedi. Legal thriller with a few plot holes and great performances.

movie of the year contender. Long Walk has always been a SK favorite of mine. bummed we never got the Frank Darabont version. A masterpiece with two scenes I thought could have been improved.

This is wild. Watched this after David J Schow posted this earlier this week. One year before the Twilight Zone this SF pilot is written by Richard Matheson, has Sydney Pollack in a small role, and is directed by future Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Krishner...

New Column up on Amazing Stories. This 25th Century five-and-dime is my write-up for the 2nd Speculative Fiction Across Media conference in LA.

Tomorrow night @kyliu99.bsky.social join us on zoom link in the thread.

Just finished The Alien Mind. That means I have finished writing Dickapedia entries for all 123 short stories across 5 volumes. There is a book's worth of material just from the short stories. about 125 pages of material. 65,000 words just from the Dickapedia entries related to the short stories.

Rautavaara's Case. Dickapedia entries written. One of the last stories PKD wrote is a short, subtle, but great story firmly in the what is human camp. A dying scientist has her brain saved by an alien rescue ship. Powerful story and was in Omni, a pretty big deal for Phil.

What exactly was the reason we needed to fire artillery shells over I-5? So JD Vance can feel like a real boy? Couldn’t he and Hegseth have just done some pushups together?

I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon - Dickapedia entries done. A true space horror story about a man is not quite as asleep as he is supposed to be on a 10-year cryonic journey in space. Phil started to expand this universe into a novel shortly before he died...

Up coming PKD live hangouts! Free live discussions. This week is a big one, don’t miss it! It helps if you have read the work of the week but not required. So this week...

Dickapedia entries for the 1979 short story Strange Memories of Death finished. This is a short well well-written, depressing little story about PKD's condo building as "The Lysol Lady" who probably thinks of him as the Cat-Man is evicted.

Dickapedia entries for the 1979 story -Chains of Air, Web of Aethyr. This got rewritten into the early chapters of the novel The Divine Invasion. This weird tale about neighbors living in domes around a binary star system was inspired by Phil's friendship with his next-door neighbor Doris Sauter...

Finished Dickapedia entries for the 1979 story "The Exit Door Leads In." Which is a pretty prophetic story about an entirely AI university called "The College" that decides that Floating home Salesman Bob Bibleman is the perfect person to get a degree in Pre-Socrates philosophy...

this fairly bad LA noir. Filled with weird choices like the scene when Bridges confronts the murderous drug dealer and they offer him a fresh sno-cone.

I have a story in this anthology. I am really happy to report alll the other stories are fantastic. Full review on the way.

Paperback Warrior reviewed my 2016 novel Punk Rock Ghost Story. " I described it to Nick at the Book Graveyard as Natural Born Killers throwing a basement party with the Manson Family and Black Flag. I'm not even sure that outrageous description does it justice."

A weird film for Arronofsky, a film about greed gone wild, with a crazy good cast. Very over the top, not quite, ridiculous in a good way.

New episode of the podcast up. After every season of Star Trek I host a discussion about the season. I loved SNW when it started. This time we all three have major problems with Season three. Issa Diao and Sara Lynn Michener join me as always. Audio available wherever you pod.

Finished the Dickapedia entries for the 1977 short story The Day the Computer Fell from Its Tree. This is a hilarious story written as a joke for a woman Phil was crushing on. It only was published after his death. So funny but it makes fun of AI, Technocratic governments, Tech bros and more. A+

In 44 novels and 123 short stories this moment from PKD's 1977's short story The Day Mr. Computer Fell out of Its Tree." has the line when Mr. Door refuses to open and then says. “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” When Joe asks the door what that means?..

PKD live hangouts Tuesday nights on Zoom. Free and open join us. Link in the comments. 6 PM PST/ 9 PM EST October 14: James Chambers Author/ Horror University on the terms and language of Scanner Darkly. Cosmic horror and Philip K. Dick... Click here on Tuesday...