Philip K. Dick life and biography

Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre.

Philip K. Dick was a prolific science fiction author who ditched bug-eyed monsters and spacemen to explore the nature of reality and paranoia on a cosmic scale. In spite of winning a Hugo Award for his 1962 novel The Man in the High Castle, Dick was largely unknown until 1982, when his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was made into the film Blade Runner (directed by RIdley Scott and starring Harrison Ford and Daryl Hannah). After his death Dick's work found a new audience, and the "mainstream" novels of his early career (ignored at the time) were finally published. Among his best-known novels are Martian Time-Slip (1964), Ubik (1969) and Valis (1981).

Dick was married five times... His friend, K.W. Jeter, has written two sequels to Blade Runner... Dick's story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale was the basis for the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall... The 2002 film Minority Report (directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise) is based on a Philip K. Dick story of the same name... Richard Linklater's 2006 film A Scanner Darkly (starring Keanu Reeves) was based on Dick's 1977 novel of the same name.

Author of books:

Solar Lottery (1955) aka World of Chance
The Man Who Japed (1956)
The World Jones Made (1956)
The Cosmic Puppets (1957)
Eye in the Sky (1957)
Time Out of Joint (1959)
Dr. Futurity (1960)
Vulcan's Hammer (1960)
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
The Game-Players of Titan (1963)
The Penultimate Truth (1964)
The Simulacra (1964)
The Unteleported Man (1964)
Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964)
Martian Time-Slip (1964)
Dr Bloodmoney: or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965)
Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
The Crack in Space (1966)
Counter-Clock World (1967)
The Ganymede Takeover (1967) (with Ray Nelson)
The Zap Gun (1967)
Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)
We Can Build You (1969)
Ubik (1969)
A Maze of Death (1970)
Our Friends from Frolix 8 (1970)
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
Deus Irae (1976) (with Roger Zelazny)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)
Lies, Inc. (1984)
In Milton Lumky Territory (1984)
Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike (1985)
Radio Free Albemuth (1985)
Puttering About in a Small Land (1985)
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland (1986)
Mary and the Giant (1987)
Nick and the Glimmung (1988)
The Broken Bubble (1988)
In Pursuit of Valis (1991)
Cantata 140 (2003)
Voices from the Street (2007)

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