If you look to the right at the Coming Soon section, you'll see that a previously-unpublished Philip K. Dick novel will be coming out in a few months - Voices From the Street. It sounds like it's from the 1950s and is not sci-fi. I presume it will be more like Confessions of a Crap Artist than Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
Also in the PKD world, there's news of a couple biopics on the horizon. This is from The Guardian newspaper:
Now, in typically serendipitous Hollywood fashion, two separate film projects about Dick's life have been announced within weeks of each other. The first to declare was Panasonic, a low-budget indie comedy to be directed by Matthew Wilder, a former pop star, which will reportedly star Bill Pullman.
The second, so-far untitled film has a considerably higher profile, and is the first to be directly produced by the Philip K Dick estate under the auspices of its newly formed Electric Shepherd Productions. Paul Giamatti, star of Lady in the Water and Sideways, is playing the writer. Giamatti, a lifelong Dick fan, is also co-producing the film under his own banner, Touchy Feely Films. A director has yet to be named, but the film will be written by British screenwriter Tony Grisoni, no stranger to the subjects of drugs and paranoia after his work on Terry Gilliam's film Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. Grisoni is planning to weave elements of Dick's fiction, particularly his last, unfinished novel The Owl in Daylight, into the story of his life. "I'm not really interested in the literal truth," he says.
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