Philip K. Dick

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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, alternate history, dystopian literature, horror, literary fiction

Writing language
English

Place of writing
United States

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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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