Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)
Author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
About the Author
Phillip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction writer best known for his psychological portrayals of characters trapped in illusory environments. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 16, 1928, Dick worked in radio and studied briefly at the University of California at Berkeley before show more embarking on his writing career. His first novel, Solar Lottery, was published in 1955. In 1963, Dick won the Hugo Award for his novel, The Man in the High Castle. He also wrote a series of futuristic tales about artificial creatures on the loose; notable of these was Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was later adapted into film as Blade Runner. Dick also published several collections of short stories. He died of a stroke in Santa Ana, California, in 1982. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
The collected short stories have been published with many different titles, so, when combining, please take care to combine the correct volumes.
Image credit: Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Series
Works by Philip K. Dick
Four Novels of the 1960s : The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of… (2007) 1,092 copies
The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) 687 copies
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 5: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (1987) 654 copies
Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the… (2008) 528 copies
Five Great Novels: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep", "Martian Time Slip", "Ubik", "The Three Stigmata of Palmer… (2004) 306 copies
Counterfeit Unrealities (contains Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep [aka Blade Runner], The… (2002) 190 copies
Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2015) 51 copies
The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume 2: Breakfast at Twilight and Other Stories (2008) 35 copies
Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (Alternatives) (1984) — Author — 30 copies
Faith of Our Fathers [short fiction] 16 copies
Planeta, která neexistovala : sbírka sedmadvaceti antiutopicky a hororově laděných sci-fi povídek, vydaných… (2006) 10 copies
The Philip K. Dick Anthology: 18 Classic Science Fiction Stories (Bybliotech Fiction) (2013) 8 copies
Selected Short Stories 8 copies
O Homem do Castelo Alto, 2 7 copies
A Máquina Preservadora 1 7 copies
O Mistério de Valis 2 7 copies
O Mistério de Valis 1 7 copies
The Father-thing [short story] 7 copies
O Homem do Castelo Alto, 1 6 copies
Rapport minoritaire/Minority Report - Souvenirs à vendre/We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (2009) 6 copies
A Máquina Preservadora 2 6 copies
Satan's Pets 5 copies
Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #1: With linked Table of Contents (2014) 4 copies
Philip K. Dick: SF Boxed Set: Second Variety, The Variable Man, Adjustment Team, The Eyes Have It, The Unreconstructed… (2018) 4 copies
Strange Eden 4 copies
The Little Movement [short story] 4 copies
The Hood Maker 4 copies
LA TRILOGIE DIVINE COFFRET 4 VOLUMES : VOLUME 1, SIVA. VOLUME 2, L'INVASION DIVINE. VOLUME 3, LA TRANSMIGRATION DE… (1997) 4 copies
Novelty Act 4 copies
Fair Game 3 copies
Blade Runner. Els androides somien xais elèctrics?: Introducció i propostes de treball de Jordi José (LES EINES) (2009) 3 copies
Souvenir [Short Story] 3 copies
The Short Stories Of Phillip K. Dick - Volume 1: "Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." (2014) 3 copies
Cuentos completos 3 copies
Warning: We Are Your Police 3 copies
Out of the Garden [short story] 3 copies
The Eye of the Sibyl [short story] 3 copies
Blade Runner - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / The Game-Players of Titan / A Maze of Death HARDCOVER BOOK IN… (1993) 3 copies
Stability 3 copies
The Cosmic Poachers 3 copies
The Golden Man [short story] 3 copies
Waterspider 2 copies
The Chromium Fence 2 copies
The Infinites 2 copies
O mistério de Valis 2 copies
Le guérisseur de cathédrales, suivi de Nick et le Glimmung (J'ai lu Science-fiction) (French Edition) (2017) 2 copies
Short Science Fiction Collection 051 2 copies
Un mundo de talento 2 copies
Project: Earth 2 copies
The Man in the High Castle: Season 1 — Author — 2 copies
The World She Wanted 2 copies
Naziism and the High Castle 2 copies
James P. Crow 2 copies
Null-o 2 copies
Spécial Philip K. Dick 2 copies
The Man in the High Castle: Season 3 — Author — 2 copies
To Serve The Master [short story] 2 copies
Best Science Fiction Stories Collection of Philip K. Dick (Adjustment Team, The Skull, The Defenders, Second Variety,… (2011) 2 copies
Jon's World 2 copies
Beyond the Door and Other Works by Philip K. Dick (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 2 copies
A Scanner Darkly [short story] 2 copies
Dry My White Noise Tears: A Philip K. Dick Collection (Six Philip K. Dick stories in one volume!) (2010) 2 copies
Aqui yace el wub 1 copy
Philip K. Dick Omnibus 1 copy
Philip K. Dick Omnibus 1 copy
Philip K. Dick Omnibus 1 copy
Nuestros amigos de Frolik 8 1 copy
Podemos construirle 1 copy
Električni snovi 1 copy
Philip K. Dick Omnibus 1 copy
FOSTER, YOU'RE DEAD 1 copy
פוסטר, אתה מת וסיפורים אחרים 1 copy
Na terenie Miltona Lumky'ego 1 copy
A máquina de governar 1 copy
Paszcza wieloryba 1 copy
A arma impossivel 1 copy
A Máquina Preservadora 2 1 copy
Collected Stories Volume 4 1 copy
Labirynt Śmierci 1 copy
A Harag Istene 1 copy
Selected Short Stories 1 copy
Redivivi S.p.A. 1 copy
Die Clans des Alpha-Mondes 1 copy
Os Clãs da Lua Alfa 1 copy
CUENTOS COMPLETOS IV 1 copy
Cla 1 copy
The Second Variety Audio 1 copy
Collected Stories Volume 3 1 copy
Вспомнить все: рассказы 1 copy
Collected Stories Volume 2 1 copy
Collected Stories Volume 1 1 copy
Glas trećega 1 copy
Filmske priče 1 copy
A Máquina Preservadora-1 1 copy
A city without a map - paperback collection of short stories fantasy Hayakawa Dick NV 122 (1976) 1 copy
フィリップ・K・ディックのすべて―ノンフィクション集成 1 copy
The Man in the High Castle: Season 2 — Author — 1 copy
Le retour des explorateurs 1 copy
Contatto col nemico 1 copy
Il meglio di Philip Dick 1 copy
Tutti i racconti 1 copy
Eine Handvoll Dunkelheit. Acht Visionen einer dunklen Zukunft - erahnt und erzählt von Philip K. Dick (1963) 1 copy
A Terran Odyssey 1 copy
Strange New World 1 copy
Time Pawn 1 copy
Stand-by 1 copy
Human Is [short story] 1 copy
Service Call 1 copy
Misadjustment (Short Story) 1 copy
I migliori romanzi 1 copy
12 Science Fiction Short Story Collection : [Hugo Award winning writers] [illustrated] (2014) 1 copy
The Story To End All Stories 1 copy
Vulcan's Hammer [novelette] 1 copy
Unknown Book 6531601 1 copy
I racconti inediti 1 copy
Galaxy No 77 1 copy
The Greatest Science Fiction Works of Philip K. Dick: Second Variety, The Variable Man, Adjustment Team, The Eyes Have… (2018) 1 copy
FORCED EXPOSURE #13 1 copy
HLa Isvastica sul sole 1 copy
Our Friends From Frolix8 1 copy
Divine Invasion A Novel, The 1 copy
Players of Titan 1 copy
Invasion of the Robots 1 copy
Karanliği taramak 1 copy
Ricordi di domani 1 copy
Muñecos cósmicos 1 copy
Some Kinds Of Life 1 copy
Survey Team 1 copy
The Trouble With Bubbles 1 copy
2009 1 copy
Psi-Man, Heal My Child! 1 copy
En ¤håndfuld mørke 1 copy
Øjet på Himlen 1 copy
A Surface Raid 1 copy
Dick, Philip K. 1 copy
S.F. MASTERWORKS Philip K. Dick Collection 5 Books Set (A Scanner Darkly, Martian Time-Slip, Ubik, The Word for World… (2017) 1 copy
Associated Works
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Contributor — 1,894 copies
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contributor — 562 copies
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contributor — 315 copies
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contributor — 216 copies
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Contributor — 130 copies
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contributor — 121 copies
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 9: Robots (1989) — Contributor — 113 copies
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contributor — 90 copies
The Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Masters (2011) — Author — 59 copies
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Contributor — 56 copies
Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2005) — Contributor — 43 copies
Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (2016) 27 copies
The Wild Years 1946-1955 (Amazing Science Fiction Anthology Series) (1987) — Contributor — 25 copies
Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2020) — Contributor — 24 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1981, Vol. 61, No. 4 (1981) — Contributor — 16 copies
Science fiction verhalen [1969] — Contributor, some editions — 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1964, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1964) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1954, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1954) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1953, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1953) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1952, Vol. 3, No. 7 (1952) — Contributor — 8 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1953, Vol. 4, No. 6 (1953) — Contributor — 8 copies
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine Vol. 1 No. 1: September 1953 (1953) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1953, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1953) — Contributor — 6 copies
Planet Stories 66, May 1954 — Contributor — 5 copies
Planet Stories 55, July 1952 — Contributor — 5 copies
Imagination, July 1954 (Vol. 5 ∙ No. 7) — Contributor — 5 copies
Space Science Fiction September 1953 — Contributor — 4 copies
Imagination, February 1953 (Vol. 4 ∙ No. 2) — Contributor — 4 copies
Science Fiction Stories July 1955 — Contributor — 4 copies
Future Science Fiction October 1954 — Contributor; Contributor — 4 copies
Robotics Through Science Fiction: Artificial Intelligence Explained Through Six Classic Robot Short Stories (2018) — Contributor — 4 copies
Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 1954 — Contributor — 4 copies
Imagination, July 1953 (Vol. 4 ∙ No. 6) — Contributor — 3 copies
Orbit Science Fiction No. 4, September-October 1954 — Contributor — 3 copies
Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1954 — Contributor — 3 copies
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Author, some editions — 2 copies
Impuls 1 — Author, some editions — 2 copies
Fantasy Fiction Magazine, June 1953 (Vol. 1, No. 2) — Contributor — 2 copies
Science Fiction Stories 1953 — Contributor — 2 copies
Fantastic Universe July 1955 — Contributor — 2 copies
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Contributor — 2 copies
Mostri del cielo e della terra — Contributor — 2 copies
Fantastic Universe October 1954 — Contributor — 2 copies
9 science fiction stories — Author, some editions — 1 copy
Questa notte attenti agli UFO — Contributor — 1 copy
Misunderstanding Cad First Contact SF Masterpiece Selection — Contributor — 1 copy
季刊NW-SF 7号 — Contributor — 1 copy
季刊NW-SF 1976年 08月 第12号 — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Dick, Philip K.
- Legal name
- Dick, Philip Kindred
- Other names
- Philips, Richard
Dowland, Jack - Birthdate
- 1928-12-16
- Date of death
- 1982-03-02
- Burial location
- Riverside Cemetery, Fort Morgan, Colorado, USA (section K, block 1, lot 56)
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- Santa Ana, California, USA
- Cause of death
- Stroke
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
San Rafael, California, USA
Fullerton, California, USA
Santa Ana, California, USA
Point Reyes Station, California, USA - Education
- University of California, Berkeley (MLS|1975)
- Occupations
- short-story writer
novelist
science fiction writer - Relationships
- Dick, Tessa B. (former spouse)
Dick, Anne R.(former spouse)
Powers, Tim (friend)
Blaylock, James P. (friend)
Jeter, K. W. (friend) - Organizations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Awards and honors
- Science Fiction Hall of Fame ( [2005])
Hugo Award (1963)
John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1975)
British Science Fiction Association Award (1978)
Graoully d'Or (1979)
Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (1985) - Agent
- Russell Galen (Scovil-Chichak-Galen Literary Agency)
- Short biography
- Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.
- Disambiguation notice
- The collected short stories have been published with many different titles, so, when combining, please take care to combine the correct volumes.
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Most of your common PKD themes are here. A sudden change or revelation that makes you question everything you knew about reality. A surveillance state. Disguise. But then we get some new or less common elements as well — a lot of shade thrown at eugenics, a staggering amount of sexual content for Dick Not that there is sex on the page, exactly, but the police encounter a pedophile (but in this world, the age of consent is 13 — it's messy), two of the female characters are bisexual, and there is an incestuous couple? I would almost think I was reading Heinlein, except there isn't a hot tub in sight.
Not to mention Heinlein is not interested in the question of WHAT EVEN IS REALITY/HUMANITY? Which is Dick's whole thing.
Out of everything, the anti-Black edge to eugenics is probably what ages the poorest, not because dick doesn't see it or mention it, but the treatment of it feels undercooked.… (more)