Philip K. Dick
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Dick, undatedAbout the author
Born
Chicago, United States, 1928
Died
Santa Ana, California, United States, 1982
Publications
Novels, stories
Genres
Science fiction, alternate history, dystopian literature, horror, literary fiction
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)
Science Fiction Stories
• "The Father-Thing" (1954)
• "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)
Horror Stories
• "The Father-Thing" (1954)
Alternate History
• The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Utopias and Dystopias
• A Scanner Darkly (1977)
Works published in book form
Solar Lottery, novel, 1955
A Handful of Darkness, story collection, 1955
Includes "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"
The World Jones Made, novel, 1956
The Man Who Japed, novel, 1956
The Cosmic Puppets, novel, 1957
Eye in the Sky, novel, 1957
The Variable Man And Other Stories, story collection, 1957
Includes "The Variable Man", "Second Variety", "The Minority Report"", "Autofac", "A World of Talent"
Time Out of Joint, novel, 1959
Vulcan's Hammer, novel, 1960
Dr. Futurity, novel, 1960
The Man in the High Castle, novel, 1962
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb, novel, 1963
The Game-Players of Titan, novel, 1963
Martian Time-Slip, novel, 1964
The Simulacra, novel, 1964
Clans of the Alphane Moon, novel, 1964
The Penultimate Truth, novel, 1964
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, novel, 1965
The Crack in Space, novel, 1966
Now Wait for Last Year, novel, 1966
The Unteleported Man, novel, 1966
The Zap Gun, novel, 1967
The Ganymede Takeover, novel, with Ray Nelson, 1967
Counter-Clock World, novel, 1967
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, novel, 1968
Ubik, novel, 1969
Galactic Pot-Healer, novel, 1969
The Preserving Machine, story collection, 1969
Includes "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"
A Maze of Death, novel, 1970
Our Friends from Frolix 8, novel, 1970
We Can Build You, novel, 1972
The Book of Philip K. Dick, story collection, 1973, also published in 1977 as The Turning Wheel and Other Stories
"Nanny", "The Defenders", "Adjustment Team", "Psi-Man", "The Commuter", "A Present for Pat", "Breakfast at Twilight", "Shell Game"
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, novel, 1974
Confessions of a Crap Artist, novel, 1975, written in 1959
Deus Irae, novel, with Roger Zelazny, 1976
A Scanner Darkly, novel, 1977
The Best of Philip K. Dick, story collection, 1977
Includes "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"
The Golden Man, story collection, 1980
Includes "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"
VALIS, novel, 1981
The Divine Invasion, novel, 1981
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, novel, 1982
Lies, Inc., novel, 1984, expanded from The Unteleported Man
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, novel, 1984, written in 1960
Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities, story collection, 1984
Includes "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")
Radio Free Albemuth, novel, 1985, written in 1976
Puttering About in a Small Land, novel, 1985, written in 1957
In Milton Lumky Territory, novel, 1985, written in 1958
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, story collection, 1985
Including "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"
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, novel, 1986, written in 1960
Mary and the Giant, novel, 1987, written in 1954
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume I, story collection, 1987, also published in 1988 as Beyond Lies the Wub, in 1990 as The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, and in 2010 as The King of the Elves
Including "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, story collection, 1987, also published in 1989 as Second Variety, in 1990 as We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, and in 2011 as Adjustment Team
Including "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, story collection, 1987, also published in 1989 as The Father-Thing, in 1991 as Second Variety, and in 2012 as Upon the Dull Earth
Including "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, story collection, 1987, also published in 1990 as The Days of Perky Pat, in 1991 as The Minority Report, and in 2013 as The Minority Report
Including "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, story collection, 1987, also published in 1990 as The Little Black Box, in 1992 as The Eye of the Sibyl, and in 2014 as We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
"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"
Nick and the Glimmung, children's novel, 1988, written in 1966
The Broken Bubble, novel, 1988, written in 1956
Gather Yourselves Together, novel, 1994, written in 1950
The Philip K. Dick Reader, story collection, 1997
Including "The Eyes Have It"
Vintage PKD Five novel excerpts, three stories, essay, letters, 2006
Including essay "The Lucky Dog Pet Store", letters: "The Zebra Papers"
Voices from the Street, novel, 2007, written in 1952.
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