PKD/Beyond Lies the Wub

Outline

Work: Beyond Lies The Wub, by PKD

Background

Focusing on how to read, and exploring some themes in the work. Important to understand the context and the author.

PKD biography, background, short stories and short story collections.

(Leave story of how I came to learn about PKD particularly for later episode.)

Familiar at young age, and that brings up an aspect of PKD's work: generally considered significant literary work, but some (who?) don't like his work, think it's simplistic. It is. Raw, getting ideas out, prolific, so many ideas, trying to cut to the chase, get to the twist.

Lots of short stories have led to lots of movies: total recall, blade runner, minority report, paycheck, a scanner darkly, the adjustment bureau, man in the high castle,

Reincarnation, metempsychosis

Other PKD stories exploring religious ideas: twists

Something PKD loved to do: twist the knife

See that again, in future stories

Resources

Beyond Lies the Wub: Librivox Audio Book

• Narrator: Gregg Margarite
• Direct link: http://ia600501.us.archive.org/35/items/short_scifi_015_0905_librivox/beyondliesthewub_dick_gam.mp3
• Collection: https://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-015/

Beyond Lies the Wub: PRI's Selected Shorts

• Direct link: http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/4787204/510202/89610580/NPR_89610580.mp3
• Show Info: http://www.sffaudio.com/pris-selected-shorts-beyond-lies-the-wub-by-philip-k-dick/
• Narrator: Denis O'Hare
• The story runs from 13:54-35:05

Beyond Lies the Wub: Text

• Available at Project Gutenberg
• Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28554
• Text file: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28554/pg28554.txt

Radio Project X

• Radio dramatization
• Link: http://www.sffaudio.com/radio-project-x-beyond-lies-the-wub-audio-drama/