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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Andromeda night 2! This might be my best photos yet when you remove the stars that you can really see all three galaxies.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Andromeda Galaxy taken from my back porch in San Diego. The other galaxy photo bombing above it is M110 (60 billion stars

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Andromeda Galaxy taken from my back porch in San Diego. The other galaxy photo bombing above it is M110 (60 billion stars

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just like the Empire…PKD Fest never ended. September is a great month for our online Zoom hangouts. Tuesdays live on Zoom 6-8 PM PST/ 9 PM EST. As always, the first hour is devoted to the guest, and then we will have an open chat.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Was only able to get five minutes of this super giant Sadr before clouds came in. Bummer because I was just starting to get the Gamma Cygni nebula. Sadr is 150 times larger than our sun. 1,800 light years away, 12 million years old. Taken with dwarf mini in Balboa Park in San Diego.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Gulf of Mexico so called Cygnus wall section of the North American Nebula taken from the Rose Garden in Balboa Park. Taken with Dwarf mini.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Thanks to @clashbooks.bsky.social for sending an arc for the second book in the Kill Nazis saga. When it comes out in January it will be my 15th book. Pre-order now from Bookshop .org or Barnes and Noble.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Dumbbell nebula taken with dwarf mini at mission trails east of San Diego.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Eagle nebula taken at mission trails east of San Diego. Taken with Dwarf mini.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

M24 star cloud I took at Mission Trails outside San Diego. Taken with Dawrf mini.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

M101 - three galaxies. Taken at San Diego Astronomy Association TDS dark sky site.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Two best pictures I got at the San Diego Astronomy association dark sky site.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Photo I took after basketball with my dwarf mini telescope this was a short exposure. Affordable and easy to use so stoked to endorse this amazing product!

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Schedule in the comments. Free! Join us! Movie screenings, academic lectures, screenplay and play table reads, a museum of rare SF artifacts and much more . Guests of Honor Tim Powers , Brian Evenson and Sarah Langan. Release party for the first novellas of Pink beam press.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

That time Meta AI hallucinated that PKD wrote my novel.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

June 30th Daniel J. Solove, “Dangerous Oracles: Minority Report, Philip K. Dick, and AI Predictions.” Daniel is a Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the George Washington University Law School.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

June 23rd, Caroline Bicks, Author of Monster in the Archives. Caroline is the Stephen E. King Chair at the University of Maine. She spent a year in the SK papers and wrote a book about the writing of a couple of his classic novels. This will be an archive nerd out!

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

June 16th, Chris Danta – Staying down under, Chris is a professor of literature in the School of Cybernetics. He presented a paper at Global Time SlipThis is a general discussion, but check out his piece “Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation.”

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

June 9th: Ellen J. Greenham, Professor of Comparative Literature at Murdoch University and author of After Engulfment: Cosmicism and NeoCosmicism: in Lovecraft, PKD, Heinlein, and Frank Herbert. The Australian academic will join us to talk about the topic of PKD and cosmic horror

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

June 2nd Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of Cabin At the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts, will talk about his PKD-influenced forthcoming novel Dead, But Still Dreaming of Electric Sheep

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Cover reveal ! Go add it on GoodReads.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Pink Beam press the SF imprint of quoir is releasing special releases for pkdfestival in August. It includes my novella Sim Cop and the Haunted City. PKD fest Aug 20-23rd

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Sunday!!!!! Global Time Slip!!! 1:30 PM EST/ 10:30 PST Cody Goodfellow hosts a Cyberpunk reunion with @rudytheelder.bsky.social and @johnshirley2024.bsky.social This one hour of 17 hour international Science Fiction and Philip K. Dick conference

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

San Diego celebrated the 100th Birthday of Amazing Stories and Science Fiction in style. I was very proud to host this amazing panel of authors and teachers at Verbatim Books.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Hey Everyone, April 7th PKD hangout information Tuesday April 7th 9PM EST/ 6 PM PST This week we welcome the Nebula award-winning author @isabel.kim

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Remember Dickheads Podcast listeners and PKD nerds. Live PKD hangout this Saturday morning 9 am PST... Link in the comments...

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

3/21 – Saturday special PKD hangout! Live interview with David Lapoujade, author of Worlds Built to Fall Apart. One of the most exciting books in Philip K. Studies in the last few years Saturday, 9 AM PST. (NOTE this will be a different PM me if you are interested in joining)

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Big news!!! Next book title reveal... Sim-Cop and the Haunted City* by David Agranoff (Pink Beam Press) a new imprint of @quoir

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

@clashbooks.bsky.social ANTiFA vampire vs A mummy revived by the Nazis. Let’s go…

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The 4th Philip K. Dick Festival is coming. Submit a paper! Write a short story, Adapt a story for screenplay, join the community and explore Reality! Guests of honor Brian Evenson, Tim Powers, and Sarah Langan!

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Set course for the endzone maximum warp, engage!

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Current read is ancient. 50s SF from Japan

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Praise for my novel, Great America in Dead World. From Ray Nayler author of Mountain in the Sea, Cody Goodfellow author of New Tomorrow and James Reich author of Skinship... Check it out...

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Had an amazing time at SF in SF talking PKD’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. On the panel with Cyberpunk legend Rudy Rucker, David Gill and Tachyon publishing’s Jacob Weisman. Great audience questions, sold some books. Great time.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Last night I finished the novel Red Star Hustle by @sam.j.miller and it was amazing. It is a part of a double with @maryrobinettekowal and I will get to her half soon but picked this up at @mystgalaxybooks when Sam signed there. Great gay crime space opera. Loved it

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Every Tuesday night 6 PM PST Free PKD hangout on Zoom. Think of the it as a free class on Philip K. Dick and science Fiction. the second hour we hang out and talk about what we are reading, watching, learning this week Professor John Rieder…

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This week on the PKD hangout! October 28: Vincent V. Cava the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and several creep pasta tales and has a collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing the classic PKD story Beyond Lies the Wub.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Up coming PKD live hangouts! Free live discussions. This week is a big one, don’t miss it! It helps if you have read the work of the week but not required. So this week...

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Finished reading the soon to be released crime thriller by cyberpunk legend @johnshirley2024.bsky.social . An editor with a past breaks bad after his son dies from an overdose and he survives a mass shooting on the same day. Finding the person responsible for his son’s death leads...

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

4th international Philip K. Dick Festival Aug 20-23rd is in Orange County one week before WorldCon. Come to both and have a California vacation in between. Keep eyes peeled for the call for Papers, and the short fiction/Screenplay contests.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Last month at the house that all the events that inspired the book happened at.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

PKD Hangout Tuesday!!! August 12th, the legendary Charles Platt! He is a British Science fiction author, journalist, and computer programmer. His novels include Silicon Man, among others. his Dreammakers a two volume series in which he interviewed everyone in SF, including Philip K. Dick.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The Breakin house Aka the Scanner Darkly inspiration house. Francisco house 50-58 lots more pics on Facebook. Column for Amazing Stories on the way.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

One of the pivotal scenes of Man in the High Castle takes place on a park bench iChina town’s Portsmouth Square. We took the ferry.David Gill read us the scene. We saw the restaurant where Phil took 2nd wife on their first date. Walked China town. We really shook the pillars of heaven. #philipkdick

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

n PKD’s classic novel Dr. Bloodmoney the survivors of the atomic war in West Marin gather here at Foresters hall to listen to Walt Dangerfield transmit a radio signal stuck in orbital. Foresters Hall is like 90 feet from Phil and Kleo’s first house in Marin.

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David Agranoff @davidagranoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We parked near Anne Dick’s old House. PKD lived here about 1960-1964. He rented a shack he called the hovel, a short walk around two corners. We did the walk he took to write.

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