Panel: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick and Science Fiction
Sunday, 11/23/2025
3:00 - 5:00
Chinese Center Exhibit Space - 3rd Fl
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

SF in SF - Science Fiction in San Francisco! hosts Philip K. Dick (PKD) experts David Gill and David Agranoff along with author Rudy Rucker and publisher Jacob Weisman, in a discussion of PKD’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? David Gill, the authoritative expert on PKD's life and writing processes, and David Agranoff, co-host of the PKDickheads podcast, will discuss the larger religious and philosophical questions PKD’s work explores. Author Rudy Rucker and Tachyon Publications' Jacob Weisman, publisher of The Search for Philip K. Dick by Anne Dick, will also join the discussion.

Q & A with the audience will follow. Books by and about Philip K. Dick will be for sale, courtesy of Fly By Night Books. The event will be recorded for later streaming by SOMA FM, on the SF in SF channel.

 

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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