LAURENCE A. RICKELS SAYS:
The Song My Enemies Sing is a surprise attack on the science fiction consumer…a superbly angry novel.
THE SONG MY ENEMIES SING – BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
David Agranoff, author and host of Dickheads: The Philip K. Dick Podcast has named James Reich’s The Song My Enemies Sing as one of his dozen best books of the decade. Agranoff writes: “I just had this in my 2019 list but I love Reich’s retro Mars world-building and meta …
JAMES REICH’S WORK IN SENSITIVE SKIN’S NEW 2016-2018 ANTHOLOGY
Bernard Meisler, editor of Sensitive Skin magazine has compiled an anthology of some of the best writing published by the magazine since its transformation from a print-based entity to it new online form. The anthology contains Reich’s piece on Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner 2049, alongside work by Timothy …
MALZBERG’S ‘BEYOND APOLLO’ – PODCAST W/ JAMES REICH
Earlier this year, I had a phone call with David Agranoff to discuss Beyond Apollo, the classic science fiction novel by Barry Malzberg. I wrote an introduction to the 2015 reissue from Anti-Oedipus Press at the invitation of editor D. Harlan Wilson. The interview has been made available as a …
LARS VON TRIER’S MELANCHOLIA
“This analysis of Lars von Trier’s beautiful Melancholia is the first episode in a series of videos based on the work I’m doing toward a book on the psychology, philosophy, and ecopsychic content of science fiction film. In this episode I talk about Melancholia through the work of Schopenhauer, Freud, …
THE SONG MY ENEMIES SING – WINTER 2018
James Reich’s fifth novel The Song My Enemies Sing will be published by Anti-Oedipus Press in December, 2018. Editor D. Harlan Wilson has released some early publicity details, including praise from science fiction innovator Barry N. Malzberg, who calls the novel “absolutely astonishing!” From the publisher: We are excited to announce …
DEEP ENDS: A BALLARDIAN ANTHOLOGY, 2018
James Reich’s story “Shadows of Maralinga” – derived from his forthcoming novel The Song My Enemies Sing – appears in Rick McGrath’s latest anthology from The Terminal Press. From the publisher: Deep Ends: A Ballardian Anthology features 15 contributions from artists influenced by or inspired by J.G. Ballard. This large format, …
BLADE RUNNER 2049: THE ENIGMA & EXEGESIS OF ‘K’
Sensitive Skin Magazine published my partial analysis of Blade Runner 2049 entitled The Enigma and Exegesis of ‘K’. Like my previous work on Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the essay focuses on conscious and unconscious textual relationships between the film and Dick’s theoretical Exegesis. There’s a lot more to add at another date …
BOOKS BY JAMES REICH
These books are available from your local independent bookseller, directly from the publishers, or online. SOFT INVASIONS Anti-Oedipus Press, 2017 $12.99 Paperback $5.99 E-Book Click cover to order. “In his exceptionally well-written novel, at times lyrical, elegiac, and even mystical, James Reich asks some profound questions about time and identity. This …
VOIGT-KAMPFF: GERMANICITY & EMPATHY IN DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
Voigt-Kampff, the sinister test designed to detect the schizophenic ‘flattening of affect’ (33) of android psychopathy in Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner [i] (1968), is an extension of Alan Turing’s 1950 test of human-machine equivalence. Its purpose is to draw and cull the uncanny androids by exposing their …
ÉMIGRÉS AND INVADERS: LAURENCE RICKELS INTERVIEWED BY JAMES REICH
Laurence Rickels is our foremost analyst of popular culture’s repressed content, the sublimated presence of an uncanny canon of anti-classics that haunts our scene, in B-movies, in exploitation narratives, science fiction, camp, highly stylized and hysterical productions at the seam of juvenilia, trash, and high conceptual art. This methodology was …