Vast Active Living Bibliographic System, or Bibliografia critica su Philip Kindred Dick – Secondary Texts on PKD
- VALBS: Vast Active Living Bibliographic System, or Bibliografia critica su Philip Kindred Dick – Secondary Texts on PKD
- Collections Of Essays – Raccolte Di Saggi
- Book-Length Essays – Monografie
- Articles On Academic Journals – Articoli Su Riviste Accademiche
- Reviews – Recensioni
- Theses, Dissertations Etc. – Tesi, Dissertazioni, Ecc.
- Interviews – Interviste
- Articles On Magazines/Fanzines/Newspapers – Articoli Su Riviste, Fanzine E Quotidiani
Book-Length Essays / Monografie
Monographs on P.K. Dick / Monografie specifiche su Philip K. Dick
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Anton, Uwe
1984. Die seltsamen Welten des Philip K. Dick, Meitlingen, Corian-Verlag.
1991. Welcome to Reality: The Nightmares of Philip K. Dick, Broken Mirror Press.
1993. Philip K. Dick: Entropie und Hoffnung (Texte und Materialien zur phantastischen Literatur), Tilsner.
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Barlow, Aaron
2005. How Much Does Chaos Scare You?: Politics, Religion, and Philosophy in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick, Lulu.com.
Butler, Andrew M.
2000. The Pocket Essential: Philip K. Dick. Harpeden: Pocket Essentials.
2007. The Pocket Essential: Philip K. Dick. Revised and Updated. Harpeden: Pocket Essentials.
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Caronia, Antonio and Domenico Gallo
2006. La macchina della paranoia: Enciclopedia dickiana, Milano: X Book.
Carrère, Emmanuel
1993. Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts, Paris: Editions de Seuil.
1995. Io sono vivo e voi siete morti: Philip K. Dick 1928/1982. Una biografia [Italian edition of Carrère 1993], Tr. Stefania Papetti,
Roma-Napoli: Theoria.
[Not a biography, but an Avant-pop novel whose protagonist is Philip K. Dick: rich in critical insights, though.]
Chiappetti, Fabrizio
2000. Visioni dal futuro: Il caso di Philip K. Dick, Santarcangelo di Romagna: Fara Editore.
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De Feo, Linda
2001. Philip K. Dick: Dal corpo al cosmo, Napoli: Cronopio.
Dick, Anne R.
1995. Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer, Lewiston NY: Edwin Mellen Press.
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Fortin, David T.
2011. Architecture and Science-Fiction Film: Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home. Farnham: Ashgate.
Frasca, Gabriele
2007. L’oscuro scrutare di Philip K. Dick. Roma: Meltemi.
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Katz, Jason
2008. A Biological Necessity: Evolution in the Novels of Philip K. Dick, Saarbrücken, VDM Verlag.
Kucukalic, Lejla
2008. Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age, London, Routledge.
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Levack, D.J.H.
1988. PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, Columbia, PA-S. Francisco: Underwood and Miller.
1998. PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography [revised edition of Levack 1988], Westport-London: Meckler.
Link, Eric Carl
2010. Understanding Philip K. Dick, Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press.
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Mackey, Douglas A.
1988. Philip K. Dick, Boston: Twayne.
McKee, Gabriel.
2004. Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick, Lanham, MD: University Press of
America.
2007. The Gospel According to Science Fiction: From the Twilight Zone to the Final Frontier, Louisville, KY and London: Westminster John Knox
Press.
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Palmer, Christopher
2003. Philip K. Dick; Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool UP.
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Rasetti, Carlos
1997. Epistemologia para vigilantes: A propósito de Blade Runner. Colección Eutopías, vol. 152, Valencia.
Pierce, Hazel
1982. Philip K. Dick: Starmont Reader’s Guide 12, Mercer Island, Wa: Borgo.
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Riche, D.
1986. Science Fiction 7-8: Special Philip K. Dick, Paris: Denoël.
Rickels, Laurence A.
2010. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Rickman, Gregg
1984. Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words, Long Beach, Ca.: Fragments West/The Valentine Press.
1985. Philip K. Dick: The Last Testament, Long Beach, Ca.: Fragments West/The Valentine Press.
1988. Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words [Second Edition], Long Beach, Ca.: Fragments West/The Valentine Press.
1989. To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1963, Long Beach, Ca.: Fragments West/The Valentine Press.
Rispoli, Francesca
2001. Universi che cadono a pezzi: La fantascienza di Philip K. Dick, Milano: Bruno Mondadori.
Robinson, Kim Stanley
1984. The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.
Rossi, Umberto
2011. The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick: A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels, Jefferson: McFarland.
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Seed, David.
1999. American Science Fiction and the Cold War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Stephens, C.P.
1991. A Checklist of Philip K. Dick, Hastings-on-Hudson: Ultramarine.
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-Payne, P. and G. Benson jr.
1990. Philip Kindred Dick: A Working Bibliography, Albuquerque, NM: Galactic Central.
Strowa, Christian
2008. Things Don’t Like Me: Paranoia, Colonialism and McCarthyism in the Novels of Philip K. Dick. Trier, Germany: WVT.
Sutin, Lawrence
1989. Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, New York: Harmony Books.
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Taylor, Angus
1975. Philip K Dick and the Umbrella of Light, Baltimore, Maryland: T. K. Graphics.
1976. “Philip K. Dick e l’ombrello della luce” [Italian translation of Taylor, A. 1975], tr. Sandro Pergameno, Le voci di dopo, eds. De
Turris, Gianfranco and Sebastiano Fusco, Roma: Fanucci, pp. 283-322.
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Vest, Jason P.
2007. Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers.
2009a. Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. [Rpt. of Vest 2007]
2009b. The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press.
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Warrick, Patricia
1987. Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.
Wright, H. Stephen
1987. Philip K. Dick : a secondary bibliography, 1960-1983, DeKalb, Ill., H.S. Wright.
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Monographs which diffusely discuss Dick (among other writers) / Monografie che trattano anche Dick in più passi
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Aldiss, Brian
1973. Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science-Fiction, Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Aldiss, Brian, and David Wingrove
1986. Trillion Year Spree [enhanced version of Aldiss 1973], London: Paladin.
Ash, Brian
1975. Faces of the Future: The Lessons of Science-Fiction, New York: Taplinger.
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Brians, Paul
1987. Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press.
Broderick, Damien
1995. Reading By Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction, London and New York: Routledge.
Budrys, Algis
1985. Benchmarks, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Bukatman, Scott
1993. Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction, Durham and London: Duke University Press.
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Caronia, Antonio
1985. Il cyborg, Roma: Theoria.
1996. Il corpo virtuale, Padova: Muzzio.
2001. Il cyborg [revised edition of Caronia 1985], Milano: Shake.
Carotenuto, Aldo
2001. L’ultima Medusa: Psicologia della fantascienza, Milano: Bompiani.
Carter, Paul A.
1977. The Creation of Tomorrow, New York: Columbia UP.
Clareson, Thomas D.
1990. Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Formative Period (1926-1970), Columbia: U of South Carolina Press.
Collettivo “Un’ambigua utopia”
1979. Nei labirinti della fantascienza, Milano: Feltrinelli.
Couliano, Ioan P.
1990. The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianisty to Modern Nihilism, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
Cremaschi, Inisero
1979. Cosa leggere di fantascienza, Milano: Bibliografica.
Currey, L.W.
1979. Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of First Printings of their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction, Boston: G.K. Hall.
Curtoni, Vittorio and Giuseppe Lippi
1978. Guida alla fantascienza, Milano: Gammalibri.
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Disch, Thomas M.
1998. The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, New York: The Free Press.
Dowie, John
1990. Take Them to the Garden, Brighton: n. p.
Dowling, David
1988. Fictions of Nuclear Disaster, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
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Eizykman, Boris
1973. Science-fiction et capitalisme, Paris: Mame.
Ellison, Harlan
1985. An Edge in My Voice, Norfolk, VA: Donning.
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Formenti, Carlo
2000. Incantati dalla rete: Immaginari, utopie e conflitti nell’epoca di Internet, Milano: Cortina.
Franklin, H. Bruce
1988. War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination, New York: Oxford University Press.
Frasca, Gabriele
1996. La scimmia di Dio: L’estasi della guerra mediale, Genova: Costa & Nolan.
2005. La lettera che muore. La «letteratura» nel reticolo mediale. Roma: Meltemi.
Fredericks, C. S.
1982. The Future of Eternity, Bloomington: Indiana UP.
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Giovannini, Fabio
1992. Cyberpunk e splatterpunk, Roma: Datanews.
Giovannini, Fabio e Marco Minicangeli
1998. Storia del romanzo di fantascienza, Roma: Castelvecchi.
Guardamagna, Daniela
1980. Analisi dell’incubo: L’utopia negativa da Swift alla fantascienza, Roma: Bulzoni.
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Hartwell, David G.
1984. Age of Wonders, New York: Walker.
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James, Edward
1994. Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Oxford: Oxford UP.
Jameson, Fredric
1991. Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, London and New York: Verso.
2005. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, London and New York: Verso.
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Ketterer, David
1974. New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature, Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Knight, Damon
1967. In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction, Chicago: Advent.
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Lefanu, Sarah
1988. In the Chinks of the World Machine: Feminism and Science Fiction, London: Women’s Press.
Le Guin, Ursula K.
1989. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Susan Wood. [Revised edition edited by Ursula K. Le Guin],
London: The Women’s Press.
Luckhurst, Roger
2005. Science Fiction, Cambridge: Polity.
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McHale, Brian
1992. Constructing Postmodernism, New York: Routledge.
Mizrach, David
1996. Manifesto X [Slacker Manifesto], tr. Gianluca Pompei, Roma: Theoria.
Montanari, Gianni
1978. La fantascienza: Gli autori e le opere, Milano: Longanesi.
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Pagetti, Carlo
1970. Il senso del futuro: La fantascienza nella letteratura americana, Roma: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura.
1992. I sogni della scienza. Roma: Ed. Riuniti.
Panshin, Alexei
1982. Transmutations, Elephant, PA: Elephant Books.
Parrinder, Patrick
1980. Science-Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching, London: Methuen.
Pierce, John J.
1987. Great Themes of Science Fiction. New York: Greenwood.
Platt, Charles
1980. Dream Makers: The Uncommon People Who Write Science Fiction, New York: Berkley Books.
1987. Dream Makers: Science fiction and Fantasy Writers at Work [UK edition of Platt 1980], London: Xanadu Publications Ltd.
Pringle, David
1985. Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels. London: Xanadu.
Proietti, Salvatore
2003. Hippies!: Le culture della controcultura. Roma: Cooper Castelvecchi.
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Reginald, R.
1979. Science-Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974, with Contemporary Science-Fiction Authors II, Detroit: Gale.
Rose, Mark
1981.
Alien Encounters,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.
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Sadoul, Jacques
1973. Histoire de la science-fiction moderne, Paris: Albin Michel.
1975. La storia della fantascienza [Italian edition of Sadoul 1973], tr. Giusi Riverso, Milano: Garzanti.
Scholes, Robert and Eric S. Rabkin
1977. Science-Fiction: History-Science-Vision, New York: Oxford University Press.
1979. Fantascienza: Storia, scienza, visione [Italian edition of Scholes and Rabkin 1977], tr. Giovanna Orzalesi Liborio, Parma: Pratiche.
Stableford, Brian
1987. The Sociology of Science Fiction, Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House.
Suvin, Darko
1988. Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction, Kent, OH: Kent State UP.
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Warrick, Patricia
1980. The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
1984. Il romanzo del futuro [Italian edition of Warrick 1980], tr. Cinzia Portoghese, Bari: Dedalo.
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