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Vertex Interviews Philip K. Dick

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“He’s totally mad,” said one of his fans, “but it’s such a wonderful madness.” Philip K. Dick has been called everything from science fiction’s bad boy to the most creative mind in the field, but there’s one thing he’s never been accused of: failure to entertain his readers! And what more can a writer ask than that? VERTEX: Nearly every sf writer has some little fable about how he got hooked on the stuff. What’s yours? DICK: I went into a drug store looking for “Popular Science.” They were out of it and I saw something called “Stirring Science Fiction.” I thought, Well, shit, the title is similar. It’s closer than “Nurse Romance Stories.” And I took it home and read it. VERTEX: What was it about the magazine that appealed to you? DICK: Well, it was such awful writing that viewed from now you can’t take it seriously. You know what term they used then? Pseudo-science! It meant stories of science but not real science. Which of course was meaningless. I remember one story where they decide

Vertex Interviews Philip K. Dick Vertex Interviews Philip K. Dick Interviewer: Arthur Byron Cover Vertex , Vol. 1, no. 6, February 1974 "He's totally mad," said one of his fans, "but it's such a wonderful madness." Philip K. Dick has been called everything from science fiction's bad boy to the most creative mind in the field, but there's one thing he's never been accused of: failure to entertain his readers! And what more can a writer ask than that? VERTEX: Nearly every sf writer has some little fable about how he got hooked on the stuff. What's yours? DICK: I went into a drug store looking fo

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