100 years of Amazing stories and the Pulitzer Prize for a Genre Novel. When the official 100th birthday of Amazing Stories hit in April, we celebrated in style here in San Diego. Philip Fracassi, me, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In his latest review, David tackles one of the most influential figures in science fiction – Judith Merrill
David Agranoff, reviewer and podcaster (Dick Heads Podcast) shares his first column for Amazing Stories
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.
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