Philip K. Dick
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Born
Chicago, United States, 1928
Died
Santa Ana, California, United States, 1982
Publications
Novels, stories
Genres
Science fiction, literary
Writing language
English
Place of writing
United States
Literature
• The Man in the High Castle (1962)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Novels
• The Man in the High Castle (1962)
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Stories
• "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)
Story Collections
• The Philip K. Dick Reader (1997)
American Literature
• The Man in the High Castle (1962)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
• Ubik (1969)
Science Fiction
• The Man in the High Castle (1962)
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
• Ubik (1969)
• VALIS (1981)
First appearance of works in book form
1955
Solar Lottery Novel
A Handful of Darkness Fifteen stories
"Colony", "Impostor", "Expendable"", "Planet for Transients", "Prominent Author", "The Builder", "The Little Movement", "The Preserving Machine", "The Impossible Planet", "The Indefatigable Frog", "The Turning Wheel", "Progeny", "Upon the Dull Earth", "The Cookie Lady", "Exhibit Piece"
1956
The World Jones Made Novel
The Man Who Japed Novel
1957
The Cosmic Puppets Novel
Eye in the Sky Novel
The Variable Man And Other Stories Five stories
"The Variable Man", "Second Variety", "The Minority Report"", "Autofac", "A World of Talent"
1959
Time Out of Joint Novel
1960
Vulcan's Hammer Novel
Dr. Futurity Novel
1962
The Man in the High Castle Novel
1963
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb Novel
The Game-Players of Titan Novel
1964
Martian Time-Slip Novel
The Simulacra Novel
Clans of the Alphane Moon Novel
The Penultimate Truth Novel
1965
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Novel
1966
The Crack in Space Novel
Now Wait for Last Year Novel
The Unteleported Man Novel
1967
The Zap Gun Novel
The Ganymede Takeover Novel, with Ray Nelson
Counter-Clock World Novel
1968
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Novel
1969
Ubik Novel
Galactic Pot-Healer Novel
The Preserving Machine Fifteen stories
"The Preserving Machine", "War Game", "Upon the Dull Earth", "Roog", "War Veteran", "Top Stand-By Job", "Beyond Lies the Wub", "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", "Captive Market", "If There Were No Benny Cemoli", "Retreat Syndrome", "The Crawlers", "Oh, to be a Blobel!", "What the Dead Men Say", "Pay for the Printer"
1970
A Maze of Death Novel
Our Friends from Frolix 8 Novel
1972
We Can Build You Novel
1973
The Book of Philip K. Dick Nine stories, also published as The Turning Wheel and Other Stories (1977)
"Nanny", "The Defenders", "Adjustment Team", "Psi-Man", "The Commuter", "A Present for Pat", "Breakfast at Twilight", "Shell Game"
1974
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Novel
1975
Confessions of a Crap Artist Novel, written in 1959
1976
Deus Irae Novel, with Roger Zelazny
1977
A Scanner Darkly Novel
The Best of Philip K. Dick Nineteen stories
"Beyond Lies the Wub", "Roog", "The Days of Perky Pat", "Breakfast at Twilight", "Foster, You're Dead!", "The Father-Thing", "Service Call", "Human Is", "Faith of Our Fathers", "The Electric Ant", "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts"
1980
The Golden Man Fifteen stories
"The Golden Man", "Return Match", "The King of the Elves", "The Mold of Yancy", "Not By Its Cover", "The Little Black Box", "The Unreconstructed M", "The War with the Fnools", "The Last of the Masters", "Meddler", "A Game of Unchance", "Sales Pitch", "Precious Artifact", "Small Town", "The Pre-persons"
1981
VALIS Novel
The Divine Invasion Novel
1982
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Novel
1984
Lies, Inc. Novel expanded from The Unteleported Man
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike Novel, written in 1960
Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities Fifteen stories
"The Little Movement", "Sales Pitch", "The Last of the Masters", "Service Call", "To Serve the Master", "The Electric Ant", "The Exit Door Leads In", "Frozen Journey" (, also known as "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon")
1985
Radio Free Albemuth Novel, written in 1976
Puttering About in a Small Land Novel, written in 1957
In Milton Lumky Territory Novel, written in 1958
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon Eleven stories
"How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", "Explorers We", "Holy Quarrel", "What'll We Do with Ragland Park?", "Strange Memories of Death", "The Alien Mind", "The Exit Door Leads In", "Chains of Air, Web of Aether", "Rautavaara's Case"
1986
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland Novel, written in 1960
1987
Mary and the Giant Novel, written in 1954
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume I Twenty-five stories, also published as Beyond Lies the Wub (1988), The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990), and The King of the Elves (2010)
"Stability", "The Gun", "The Skull", "Mr. Spaceship", "Piper in the Woods", "The Infinites", "The Indefatigable Frog", "The Crystal Crypt", "The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford", "The Builder", "Meddler", "Paycheck", "The Great C", "Out in the Garden", "The King of the Elves", "Prize Ship"
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume II Twenty-seven stories, also published as Second Variety (1989), We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990), and Adjustment Team (2011)
"The Cookie Lady", "Beyond the Door", "Jon’s World", "The Cosmic Poachers", "Progeny", "Some Kinds of Life", "Martians Come in Clouds", "The World She Wanted", "A Surface Raid", "Project: Earth", "The Trouble with Bubbles", "A Present for Pat", "The Hood Maker", "Of Withered Apples", "James P. Crow", "Planet for Transients", "Small Town", "Souvenir", "Survey Team"
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume III Twenty-three stories, also published as The Father-Thing (1989), Second Variety (1991), and Upon the Dull Earth (2012)
"Fair Game", "The Hanging Stranger", "The Eyes Have It", "Strange Eden", "Tony and the Beetles", "Null-O", "Exhibit Piece", "The Crawlers", "Shell Game", "Upon the Dull Earth", "Pay for the Printer", "War Veteran", "The Chromium Fence", "Misadjustment", "Psi-Man Heal My Child!"
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume IV Eighteen stories, also published as The Days of Perky Pat (1990), The Minority Report (1991), and The Minority Report (2013)
"The Mold of Yancy", "Recall Mechanism", "Novelty Act", "Waterspider", "What the Dead Men Say", "Orpheus with Clay Feet", "The Days of Perky Pat", "Stand-by"
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume V Twenty-five stories, also published as The Little Black Box (1990), The Eye of the Sibyl (1992), and We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (2014)
"A Terran Odyssey", "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday", "Not By Its Cover", "The Story to End All Stories for Harlan Ellison’s Anthology Dangerous Visions", "Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked", "The Eye of the Sibyl", "The Day Mr. Computer Fell out of Its Tree", "Strange Memories of Death", "Rautavaara's Case", "The Alien Mind"
1988
Nick and the Glimmung Children's novel, written in 1966
The Broken Bubble Novel, written in 1956
1994
Gather Yourselves Together Novel, written in 1950
1997
The Philip K. Dick Reader Twenty-four stories
"The Eyes Have It"
2006
Vintage PKD Five novel excerpts, three stories, essay, letters
Essay: "The Lucky Dog Pet Store"; Letters: "The Zebra Papers"
2007
Voices from the Street Novel, written in 1952.
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