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How I Became a 2016 Philip K. Dick Award Judge by Lisa Mason After my Omni story, Tomorrow’s Child , optioned and then sold outright to Universal Studios , I went off for some years to study screenplay writing. I wrote half a dozen, including Tesla: A Worthy of His Time , now an ebook. As generous as the people were who helped me with the Tomorrow’s Child deal, the Hollywood Machine is even more difficult to deal with than New York Publishing. Anyway, writing prose is my first love. When the e-book revolution took off in 2010, I devoted time to uploading Summer of Love , The Gilded Age , a number of my longer previously published stories, a story collection Strange Ladies: 7 Stories of previously published short fiction, an urban fantasy, The Garden of Abracadabra , and a historical romantic suspense, Celestial Girl (A Lily Modjeska Mystery) . Four years of relaunching into ebook publishing just wasn’t enough, though, and I returned to my roots: wri...

Dark Seeker by K.W. Jeter is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle! His son is dead... Or that's what he believed. Caught up in the lethal madness of a Manson-like cult, Tyler has lost everything that once mattered to him. Out of prison, on a strict regimen of medications to keep the demons inside his head from returning, he knows he's always one small step away from returning to that dark place and its horrors. So when his ex-wife emerges from the shadows into which she had fled, and tells him that their son is still alive, kidnapped by another former member of the murderous group, Tyler has some tough, soul-threatening decisions to make. He can take the safe route that will keep him sane and alive, and just assume that his ex-wife is lost in some psychotic delusion about their dead son. Or he can take the risk that maybe -- just maybe -- she's somehow telling the truth. He can stop taking the medications that the doctors give him, and go back into th...

Who was Philip K Dick? The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928– March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher whose published works mainly belong to the genre of science fiction. Dick explored philosophical, sociological, political, and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments , and altered states of consciousness . In his later works, Dick's thematic focus strongly reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology . He often drew upon his own life experiences in addressing the nature of drug abuse , paranoia , schizophrenia , and transcendental experiences in novels such as A Scanner Darkly and VALIS . Perhaps his best-known work is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which served as the source material for the iconic film BLADERUNNER. Ridley Scott has announced that he is producing a s...