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<Submitter>BanjoKev</Submitter>
<Subject>Pink Beam: A Philip K. Dick Companion</Subject>
<Title>Pink Beam: A Philip K. Dick Companion</Title>
<Year>2007-07-09</Year>
<Publisher>Lulu.com</Publisher>
<Pages>322</Pages>
<Binding>tp</Binding>
<PubType>NONFICTION</PubType>
<Isbn>9781430324379</Isbn>
<Catalog>549268</Catalog>
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<Note> Dated 1st printing of the 2007 edition.
Title page:<ul><li>"Pink Beam: [over] A Philip K. Dick [over] Companion [over] by [over] Lord RC" (and otherwise blank)
</ul>Copyright page:
<ul><li>"© 2006 Dave Hyde, Ganymedean Slime Mold Pubs"
<li>13-digit ISBN.
<li>"First Edition"
</ul>Back cover:
<ul><li>No pricing anywhere in the book.
<li>"Cover art & design by Mark Ivins [over] markivins.com"
<li>"ID: 549268 [over] www.lulu.com"
</ul>Full date from Amazon and Goodreads, as of 2020-05-02.
Page 3: Acknowledgments and dedication is signed "-- Lord RC 2006"
Page 5: Introduction is unsigned.
Page 75 titling "To Jones The Future Was An Open Book!" presumed to be a quotation, but not found as at 2020-05-02.
Page 78 titling "Something had upset the natural laws of the universe" presumed to be a quotation, but not found as at 2020-05-02.
Page 82 titling "In his mind he chronicled all the lights he could think of." is a quotation from PKD’s Time Out of Joint, page 24.
Page 89 titling "You have a massive suspension of belief on my part." is a quotation from PKD’s Confessions of a Crap Artist.
Appendix 1 (spelled there with only one ’p’); alongside the title is stated: "By Lord RC, Dec 2003. This essay first appeared in PKD Otaku, 2003." This is incorrect - it was first published in PKD Otaku, #12 <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?401960">February 2004</a> - <a href="https://www.philipdick.com/mirror/journals/pkd-otaku/pkd-otaku12.pdf">download here</a>
Appendix 2 is signed on page 271: "-- Dave Hyde Jan 1994. {This article appeared in Slipstream in 1994}". <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?394841">Fanzine here</a>.
Page 272: A Philip K. Dick Chronology; in paragraph three is stated "[...] I’m proud to present the New Standard PKD Chronology -- Lord RC, Dec 2003." (possible first published location/date is needed)
Afterword ends on page 321 and is signed "Dave Hyde (Lord RC) December 2006."
Last numbered page is 322 but with no content except for a single, page-wide line.
The last page in the book is unnumbered page 324, showing bar code "27343902R00183" and "Printed in Great Britain [over] by Amazon"
Size: 21.5 x 29 cms (w x h)
Gloss cover.
 ToC errata. Following is pagination given in the ToC (story title errors omitted):
<ul><li>4 * Introduction
<li>7 * Early Work
<li>92 * 1960
<li>136 * 1964
<li>154 * 1965
<li>160 * 1966
<li>170 * 1967
<li>188 * 1969
<li>189 * 1970
<li>201 * 1971
<li>202 * 1972
<li>204 * 1973</ul></Note>
<Authors>
<Author>Lord RC</Author>
</Authors>
<Synopsis>"This study of the work of the late, great science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) by Lord RC covers each of Philip K. Dick’s short stories and novels in chronological order. Much of the material in [this book] is compiled here for the first time in one volume.
This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in [PKD’s] career as a writer from 1947 to 1982. For those interested in the movies based on PKD’s work (Blade Runner, Paycheck, Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly, to name a few) there is much background information included." (Source: extract from back cover)
 "This book is not intended to be a biography but, rather, a literary chronology." (Source: Lord RC’s introduction)</Synopsis>
<Language>English</Language>
<Juvenile>No</Juvenile>
<Novelization>No</Novelization>
<NonGenre>No</NonGenre>
<Graphic>No</Graphic>
<Source>Primary</Source>
<ModNote>I have not case-regularized the title quotations on pps 78, 82 & 89 - as per the Help page: "Case. Titles should have case regularized according to language-specific rules unless there is some specific evidence that the author intended certain letters to be in a specific case."
Similarly with p75, although I haven’t been able to find the quote (the upper/lower case mix here is intentional - in story titling (pps 10, 67, 93 & 240) the author has ALL upper case. I have regularized p96 - no quotation marks - this may be a quotation from one of PKD’s works or it may be the author’s original (but I don’t think that would fit the style of the book).</ModNote>
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<cArtists>Mark Ivins</cArtists>
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<cTitle>Pink Beam: A Philip K. Dick Companion (Introduction)</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>5</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<cTitle>Early Work</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>8</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1951 Gather Yourselves Together</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>10</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1952</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>15</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1953</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>33</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1954</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>53</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1955 Eye in the Sky</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>67</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1956 "To Jones The Future Was An Open Book!"</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>75</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1957 "Something had upset the natural laws of the universe"</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>78</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1958 "In his mind he chronicled all the lights he could think of."</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>82</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1959 "You have a massive suspension of belief on my part."</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>89</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1960 The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>93</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1961. It Is the Morning After Doomsday. America Has Been Attacked and Overcome.</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>96</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1962</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>106</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1963</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>113</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1964</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>135</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1965</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>153</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1966</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>159</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1967</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>171</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1968</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>175</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1969</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>187</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1970</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>188</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1971</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>200</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1972</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>201</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1973</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>203</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1974</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>214</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1975</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>221</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1976</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>224</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1977</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>229</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1978 VALIS</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>232</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1979</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>238</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1980 The Divine Invasion</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>240</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1981</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>256</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>1982</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>265</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>Apendix 1: A Question of Chronology: 1955 - 1958</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>266</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>Appendix 2: PKD Research Survey</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Dave Hyde</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>269</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>A Philip K. Dick Chronology</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>272</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>References (Pink Beam: A Philip K. Dick Companion)</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>279</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>Index (Pink Beam: A Philip K. Dick Companion)</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>282</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>Footnotes (Pink Beam: A Philip K. Dick Companion)</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Lord RC</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>287</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
</ContentTitle>
<ContentTitle>
<cTitle>Pink Beam Afterword</cTitle>
<cAuthors>Dave Hyde</cAuthors>
<cDate>2007-07-09</cDate>
<cPage>315</cPage>
<cType>ESSAY</cType>
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