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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 4 days ago
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - The final VALIS book, reviewed
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer represents the fifth Philip K Dick book I’ve read in a row. I have to say, that this one was the most work. It was the last he’d write before…
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holoz0r (77)in Music • 11 days ago
holoz0r's 2025 in music
My 2025 musical listening habits and reflections on live music.
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holoz0r (77)in #life • 18 days ago
The Fourth Week of my new job starts tomorrow - an update
Tomorrow marks the start of the fourth week of my new job. I am yet to be escorted out of the building without an entry pass, but I am very pleased to say that this is the first…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 20 days ago
Mosaic: Room to Surveil
Monochromatic monitors painted the walls. Illuminated in a bizzare grey light, his elderly pores held the red tinge of inflammation from a dull razor. Strapped into the chair in…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 21 days ago
Book Review: The Divine Invasion by Philip K Dick
Philip K Dick has an obsession with diseased, ill, dying women. They've featured in each of the recent books I've read. Last time, it was cancer, this time, it is MS. They're…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 22 days ago
Mosaic: Castle
Home was an apartment. It was up three flights of unforgiving, weathered stairs – if the lift was broken. His had a single bedroom. Cold in the winter. Hot in the summer. Dark at…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 23 days ago
Mosaic - Homeward
Billboards ran through sequences of marketing that was vapid and uninspiring, for products nobody needed. They illuminated the halls of the train station with their rainbow…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 24 days ago
Mosaic: Coffee Shop
He sat in the café. He looked at his laptop bag, and back to the cooling cup of coffee. Steam quietly drifted upward in the cold winter day. His job interview had gone well, he…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 25 days ago
Mosaic: The Building
The building was a long-forgotten memory, clinging to an otherwise quiet, modern street filled with structures of steel, glass, concrete and ambition. A single block from the…
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holoz0r (77)in Movies & TV Shows • 26 days ago
Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams ends with The Father Thing
I am not the only person in the world with "daddy issues" but when I consider the title The Father Thing I definitely think about unrequited fatherly love and impostors. I…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 27 days ago
Mosaic - The Breathing Machine
I see the moustache he wore on the faces of strangers. They're different skulls, different faces, but the features are a memory summoned by adjacent genetics. Ultimately, there…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 28 days ago
Mosaic - Good Morning Phil
"You're late again," said the man in the corporate costume. Woven from the same fabric as an ordinary suit, its purpose as a costume was confirmed by the text sewn into a…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 29 days ago
Mosaic - Classroom Adrift
" Some events occur without us noticing, so that is why we measure as much as we can." A teacher's voice emantated into the cheaply constructed classroom. He had an old, kind…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • last month
Mosiac - The Sleeping Giant
An electrical motor whirred through the stillness of the black night.The automatic lanterns only illuminated the when there was biological material detected.. Were it not for the…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • last month
Fiction: Happy Music
She seemed impossibly tall, standing up atop the stage. A head of fiery hair, a mouth full of teeth. She was a tongue and she was a wisp of air. She prepared to sing the words to…
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holoz0r (77)in Movies & TV Shows • last month
The Autofac can build anything in Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams: A Review
It was time to treat myself to another short film from Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams. This is the second to last one I have to watch, and... I've been watching them in…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • last month
FICTION: The Former (Mosaic Entry)
He looked over her shoulder while she sat the computer. The webcam watched her silently, it was turned off, but you could never be quite so sure. Whether it was on or off, it saw…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • last month
REVIEW: VALIS by Philip K Dick is a hell of a ride...
Philip K Dick wrote VALIS on the fringes of sanity. You can see it on every page. The shifting narrative perspectives, the topsy-turvy plot, and the all encompassing attempt at…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • last month
FICTION: The Afternoon (Mosaic Entry)
The air in the office was dry. The air conditioner ensured that humidity stayed at a constant rate. The sun beamed in from the western window, afternoon sun trying to burn down…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • last month
FICTION: The Office Reverie (Mosaic Entry)
In those moments, surrounded by the tinderbox of paper that seemed to make up the very structure of the walls in the office, she thought of her grandparents. They had been…
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