From: write@eff.org (Glen Cox)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Lost novels by Philip K. Dick (was: Re: Kim Stanley Robinson)
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:40:24 GMT
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Originator: write@eff.org

I originally wrote:

>>First, there were never any "lost" PKD manuscripts.  The posthumous novels
>>were among Dick's papers at the Univ. of Calif. Berkley (I think).  Dick
>>knew exactly where each novel was; Paul Williams, Dick's literary executor,
>>knew exactly where to get them from to have them published.
>>
>>As such, Stan had access to the posthumous novels (_In Milton Lumky Territory_,
>>_Humpty Dumpty in Oakland_, _Mary and the Giant_, _Puttering About in a
>>Small Land_, _The Broken Bubble_, and _The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly
>>Alike_) when he wrote his thesis (UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
>>Studies in Speculative Fiction #9, 1984).

Joel Margot replied:

>I just want to add a precision. There actually are four writings, that we can
>qualify as novels, even if they are of Phil Dick's childhood, that are *LOST*.
>
>This is a fact. So sorry Glen; I surely agree with all the title you quote:
>those are not lost and even published in several languages already. I am 
>talking of "Return to Liliput", "A Time for George Stavros", "Pilgrim on the
>Hill" and "Nicholas and the Higs". As a reference, I would suggest Paul
>Williams' "The Worlds of Philip K. Dick".

And I reply:

Ack.  I knew when I wrote "never" that it was going to come back and bite
me on the ass.  Thanks, Joel, for the clarification.

However, "Nicholas and the Higs" sounds an awful lot like the posthumous 
children's book "Nick and the Glimmung."  Do you know anything about that,
Joel?  And the name George Stavros seems very familiar, but then, I've read
the collected short stories and, after awhile, Dickian names and themes
start to run together on me.

>I would also like to add another precision regarding Michael Sumbera's post.
>The writings Michael refers to in his post as still being unpublished are
>"Gather Yourself Together" and "Voices from the Street". These both novels
>are not lost, even if I don't remember on the spot where the manuscript is.

According to Paul Williams, writing in the next-to-last issue of the 
Dick Society newsletter, "GATHER YOURSELVES TOGETHER--the
earliest extant Philip K. Dick novel, according to Rickman and Sutin (and I
concur, despite my guess to the contrary in the ONLY APPARENTLY REAL 
listing)--will be published sometime in 1993 by WCS Books, a Denver small
press operated by Andy Watson, longtime managing editor of [the Dick Society
Newsletter]."

WCS Books previous book was the collected short fiction of Rudy Rucker in
a very nice package.  So, although I suspect that the book will be minor
Dick, it may still be a nice item.

>PS: If this chat is of some interest to you, there is a Phil Dick mailing
>    list on pkd-list@wang.com.

Lord no!  I get enough of that from the Newsletter.  Run!  Run for your lives!

glen
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