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Resuscitated Review: The Wooden Sea, by Jonathan Carroll 2025 Reading Summary Shout Out To Greg Ketter of Dreamhaven Books What Happened to the EAGLE TRANSPORTERS from SPACE 1999? SomniCorp by John Leahy – FREE STORY
Review January 8, 2026

25th Century Five and Dime #17: 23 of the Best underrated Science Fiction/ Speculative/ Weird of the first quarter of the 21st Century

With my last column written in 2025, I wanted to highlight some works of excellent speculative fiction that might normally get overlooked. If I were going to list the best pure best of science fiction […]

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Review November 13, 2025

25th Century Five and Dime #16: Robert Bloch’s Proto-Bizarro Hollywood dystopia is a lost classic!

We have to talk about Robert Bloch in the column. The list of Science Fiction writers who have enough short story output that they could call Philip K. Dick lazy. Robert Bloch was one of […]

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Events October 21, 2025

25th Century Five and Dime #15  Speculative Fiction Across Media Conference Year Two

So in the 9th entry of this column, I wrote up the first Speculative Fiction Across Media Conference in Los Angeles. This is an academic conference devoted to Science Fiction Academia that has attendees from […]

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Uncategorized July 31, 2025

25th Century Five and Dime #14: Philip K. Dick 2025 Bay Area Pilgrimage

July 25-27, 2025 (Join us in Orange County for the 5th International Philip K. Dick Festival at Cal State Fullerton August 20-23rd one week before WorldCon in Anaheim) For this column, I am going to […]

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Opinion/Editorial July 14, 2025

25th Century Five and Dime #13: Guide to Barry N. Malzberg works

December 19th, 2024, at the age of eighty-five, Barry N. Malzberg passed away, and the Science Fiction world lost a legend. As a committed Dickhead, I often think of that fandom as a small club, […]

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Review March 27, 2025

25th Century Five and Dime #12 Moon is a better Philip K. Dick movie than Blade Runner

(This column was written in a more of an academic style for a conference I was unable to present at) Moon is a better Philip K. Dick movie than Blade Runner by David Agranoff Today […]

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Uncategorized February 20, 2025

25th Century Five and Dime #11 Did Jack London write the SF novel of the Era?

Did Jack London write the SF novel of the Second Trump Presidency? One of the benefits of reading early science fiction is seeing the many ways these tales of future reflect the past when they […]

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Fandom December 12, 2024

25th Century Five and Dime #10: First Contacts : How the Golden Age discovered Science Fiction!

Growing as a punk rocker and thrash metal in the pre-internet/Nirvana era meant that the act of discovery was something more profound. There were no internet rabbit holes, no fans of Ender’s Game also liked […]

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Events November 14, 2024

25th Century Five & Dime #9: My Experience at Speculative Fiction Across Media in Los Angeles!

This time I want to talk about an awesome first-time conference that happened in October in Los Angeles. The second edition of this conference will be in September 2025 and I wanted to write a […]

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Film/Televison October 23, 2024

25th Century Five and Dime #8: Remember Ray Nelson and Virtual Zen

William Sarill in his many decades on earth had a career in biochemistry, art restoration, physics, and esotericism. He recently told us on the Dickheads podcast, that despite a full lifetime of accomplishments. He knows […]

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Science Fiction August 29, 2024

The Games Machine Trilogy Three Writers Conversation over Generations

Editorial Note:  A previous version of this post was published to the website with editorial markups.  This was not the author’s fault.  Those markups have been removed in this version. I don’t often get writer’s […]

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Fandom August 15, 2024

25th Century Five and Dime #7: Help us honor Science Fiction and Horror Pioneer Catherine Lucille Moore!

In the mid to late 1930s the current site of the Hilton Garden Inn in Indianapolis Indiana was known as The Fletcher Trust Building.  A stenographer and secretary who worked for the company was a […]

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Fandom June 27, 2024

25th Century Five and Dime #6: The Philip K. Dick Festival 2024 -My Recap

If you only know me from 25th century Five and Dime you might not be aware that my main field of study within the genre is legendary Hugo award-winning author Philip K. Dick. I have […]

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Review May 23, 2024

25th Century Five and Dime #5: The Mainstream/Science Fiction Balance of Walter Tevis

Some writers really can’t stand being labeled a science fiction or horror author. Labels and genres are generally about marketing although I feel most authors follow the Joe R. Lansdale way of thinking, he has […]

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Film/Televison April 17, 2024

25th Century Five and Dime #4: Leigh Brackett’s 1955 Masterpieces – The Big Jump and The Long Tomorrow

It is strange how some writers’ names are remembered, and some are not. In her day Leigh Brackett was a name that sold magazines and paperbacks but today she is barely remembered. Her screenwork is […]

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Review January 24, 2024

25th Century Five and Dime #2: You Should Be Reading Judith Merril!

In his latest review, David tackles one of the most influential figures in science fiction – Judith Merrill

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Fantasy January 10, 2024

25th Century Five and Dime #1: The 25 Best Weird Apocalypse Novels (not including The Stand or The Road)

David Agranoff, reviewer and podcaster (Dick Heads Podcast) shares his first column for Amazing Stories

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David Agranoff

David Agranoff Grew up in Bloomington, Indiana hanging in the park that inspired this novel. His future wife worked at the Spoon serving the real-life Electric Fred. They have two of his notebooks and a house full of rescued animals. David is a novelist, screenwriter and a Horror and Science Fiction critic. He is the Splatterpunk and Wonderland book award nominated author of 11 books including the novels the WW II Vampire novel – The Last Night to Kill Nazis, and the science fiction novel Goddamn Killing Machines from CLASH BOOKS, The Cli-fi novel Ring of Fire, Punk Rock Ghost Story He co-wrote a novel Nightmare City (with Anthony Trevino) that he likes to pitch as The Wire if Clive Barker and Philip K Dick were on the writing staff. As a critic he has written more than a thousand book reviews on his blog Postcards from a Dying World which has recently become a podcast, featuring interviews with award-winning and bestselling authors such Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Alma Katsu and Josh Malerman. For the last five years David has co-hosted the Dickheads podcast, a deep-dive into the work of Philip K. Dick reviewing his novels in publication order as well as the history of Science Fiction. David’s non-fiction essays have appeared on Tor.com, NeoText and Cemetery Dance. He just finished writing a book, Unfinished PKD on the unpublished fragments and outlines of Philip K. Dick. He lives in San Diego where you can find him hooping in pick-up games and taking too many threes.

www.davidagranoff.blogspot.com/

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