Iconic science fiction author and enduring man of mystery Philip K. Dick is back in the media these days for a variety of reasons: Marvel is adapting Electric Ant as a comic book due out April; the powerful Andrew Wylie Agency became the official representation for the Dick estate; and the film version of Radio Free Albemuth filmed a few years ago is finally hitting film festivals and theaters soon (and is by all accounts a highly reverent adaptation).

My favorite Dick novel of all time, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is also back in the news for both good and bad reasons. BOOM! Studios is almost finished with their comic series adaptation run. But the novel also gained some recent infamy in connection with the sad disappearance and subsequent death of actor Andrew Koenig. Also, Google named their recently launched phone line Nexus One, which may be an infringement of the Nexus-6 model androids from Dick’s book....