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The OC helped shape Philip K Dick. A festival in Fullerton celebrates the sci-fi writer
Summary by The Los Angeles Editorial Desk Robert Garrova , as published by LAist (KPCC / Southern California Public Radio)
· August 16, 2026
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PKD flyers outside the Pollak Library, where his papers are housed. (Robert Garrova / LAist) Did you know Orange County was once home to one of the trippiest and perhaps the most prescient science fiction writers of the 20th century? That man was Philip K. Dick, who once called Santa Ana home. Th...
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