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Philip K. Dick

Lifespan
1928 – 1982
Nationality
American
Active
1952 – 1954
Works held
13

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) is now recognised as one of the most original and influential minds in science fiction. Obsessed with the questions of what is real and what is human, he wrote dizzying, paranoid, deeply felt novels, The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, that have inspired films from Blade Runner to Total Recall and Minority Report. Little rewarded in his lifetime, he is now studied as a major American writer.

The works

  1. 1954
    Cover of Beyond the Door Beyond the Door Cover of The Crystal Crypt The Crystal Crypt
  2. 1953
    Cover of Mr. Spaceship Mr. Spaceship Cover of Piper in the Woods Piper in the Woods Cover of Second Variety Second Variety Cover of The Defenders The Defenders Cover of The Eyes Have It The Eyes Have It Cover of The Hanging Stranger The Hanging Stranger Cover of The Variable Man The Variable Man Cover of Tony and the Beetles Tony and the Beetles
  3. 1952
    Cover of Beyond Lies the Wub Beyond Lies the Wub Cover of The Gun The Gun Cover of The Skull The Skull

Wrote across

1950s

Recurring themes

First ContactArtificial IntelligencePost-ApocalypticSpace OperaTime TravelColonizationSocial SFPsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Randall GarrettRobert SilverbergStephen MarloweBryce WaltonEdmond HamiltonFrederik PohlNelson S. BondRay Cummings

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen MarloweRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergBryce WaltonAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterWinston K. MarksCharles L. FontenayPoul Anderson

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