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Philip Dick Biography (1928-1982)

Full name, Philip Kindred Dick; born December 16, 1928, in Chicago, IL; diedof heart failure following a stroke, March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, CA; son ofJoseph Edgar (a government employee) and Dorothy (maiden name, Kindred) Dick;married, 1949; wife's name Jeannette (divorced); married, 1951; wife's nameKleo (divorced); married, 1958; wife's name Ann (divorced); married April 18,1967; wife's name Nancy (divorced); married Tessa Busby, April 18, 1973 (divorced); children: (third marriage) Laura; (fourth marriage) Isolde; (fifth marriage) Christopher. Politics:"Anti-war, pro-life."Religion: Episcopalian. Career: Writer. Hosted classical music program on KSMO Radio, 1947; worked in a record store, 1948-52; worked as an occasional lecturerat California State University, Fullerton; was active in drug rehabilitationand anti-abortion work. Member: Science Fiction Writers of America, Animal Protection Institute. Awards, Honors: Hugo Award, World ScienceFiction Convention, 1962, for The Man in the High Castle; John W. Campbell Memorial Award, 1974, for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; guest of honor, Science Fiction Festival, Metz, France, 1978; the Philip K. DickMemorial Award has been created by Norwescon, an annual science fiction convention in Seattle.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer

Birth Details

December 16, 1928

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Death Details

March 2, 1982

Santa Ana, California, United States

Further Reference

Credits

Writings

Science Fiction Novels:

• Solar Lottery (bound with The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett),Ace Books, 1955, reprinted separately, Gregg, 1976 (published separately in England as World of Chance, Rich & Cowan, 1956).
• The World Jones Made (bound withAgent of the Unknown by Margaret St. Clair), Ace Books, 1956.
• The Man Who Japed (bound with The Space-Born by E. C. Tubb), Ace Books, 1956.
• Eye in the Sky, Ace Books, 1957.
• The Cosmic Puppets (bound with Sargasso of Space by AndrewNorth), Ace Books, 1957, reprinted separately, Berkley Publishing, 1983.
• Time Out of Joint, Lippincott, 1959.
• Dr. Futurity (bound with Slavers of Space by John Brunner),Ace Books, 1960, reprinted (bound with The Unteleported Man by Dick),1972, reprinted separately, Berkley Publishing, 1984.
• Vulcan's Hammer (bound with The Skynappers by Brunner), AceBooks, 1960.
• The Man in the High Castle, Putnam, 1962.
• The Game-Players of Titan, Ace Books, 1963.
• Martian Time-Slip, Ballantine, 1964.
• The Penultimate Truth, Belmont-Tower, 1964.
• The Simulacra, Ace Books, 1964.
• Clans of the Alphane Moon, Ace Books, 1964.
• Dr. Bloodmoney; or, How We Got Along after the Bomb, Ace Books, 1965.
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Doubleday, 1965.
• Now Wait for Last Year, Doubleday, 1966.
• The Crack in Space, Ace Books, 1966.
• The Unteleported Man (bound with The Mind Monsters by Howard L. Cory), Ace Books, 1966, reprinted (bound with Dr. Futurity by Dick), 1972, reprinted separately, Berkley Publishing, 1983.
• (With Ray Nelson) The Ganymede Takeover, Ace Books, 1967.
• Counter-Clock World, Berkley Publishing, 1967.
• The Zap Gun, Pyramid Publications, 1967.
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Doubleday, 1968, published as Blade Runner, Ballantine, 1982.
• Ubik, Doubleday, 1969.
• Galactic Pot-Healer, Doubleday, 1969.
• A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (contains The Crack in Space, The Unteleported Man, and Dr. Futurity), Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970.
• A Maze of Death, Doubleday, 1970.
• Our Friends from Frolix 8, Ace Books, 1970.
• We Can Build You, DAW Books, 1972.
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Doubleday, 1974.
• (With Roger Zelazny) Deus Irae, Doubleday, 1976.
• A Scanner Darkly, Doubleday, 1977.
• VALIS, Bantam, 1981.
• The Divine Invasion, Pocket Books, 1981.
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Pocket Books, 1982.
• The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, Zeising, 1984.
• Radio Free Albemuth, Arbor House, 1987.
• Nick and the Glimmung, Gollancz, 1988.
• The Little Black Box, Gollancz, 1990.

Story Collections:

• A Handful of Darkness, Rich & Cowan, 1955.
• The Variable Man and Other Stories, Ace Books, 1957.
• The Preserving Machine and Other Stories, Ace Books, 1969.
• The Book of Philip K. Dick, DAW Books, 1973 (published in Englandas The Turning Wheel and Other Stories, Coronet, 1977).
• The Best of Philip K. Dick, Ballantine, 1977.
• The Golden Man, Berkley Publishing, 1980.
• Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick, edited by Patricia Warrick and Martin H. Greenberg, SouthernIllinois University Press, 1984.
• Lies, Inc., Gollancz, 1984.
• I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, Doubleday, 1985.
• The Collected Stories, 5 vols., Underwood Miller, 1987.

Contributor:

• August Derleth, editor, Time to Come, Farrar, Straus, 1954.
• Frederik Pohl, editor, Star Science Fiction Stories #3, Ballantine, 1955.
• Anthony Boucher, editor, A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume I, Doubleday, 1959.
• Harlan Ellison, editor, Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, Doubleday, 1967.
• Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg, editors, Final Stage, Charterhouse, 1974.
• Willis E. McNelly, editor, Science Fiction: The Academic Awakening, College English Association, 1974.
• Bruce Gillespie, editor, Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd, Norstrilia Press (Melbourne), 1975.
• Peter Nicholls, editor, Science Fiction at Large, Gollancz, 1976,Harper, 1977.

Other:

• Confessions of a Crap Artist, Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.): A Chronicle of Verified Scientific Fact, 1945-1959 (novel), Entwhistle Books,1975.
• A Letter from Philip K. Dick (pamphlet), Philip K. Dick Society, 1983.
• In Milton Lumky Territory (novel), Ultramarine, 1984.
• Ubik: The Screenplay (based on novel of same title), Corroboree, 1985.
• Puttering about in a Small Land (novel), Academy, 1985.
• Mary and the Giant (novel), Arbor House, 1987.
• The Broken Bubble (novel), Arbor House, 1988.
• Williams, Paul, editor, The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick 1974, Underwood-Miller (Novato, CA), 1991.
• Confessions d'un Barjo (also known asConfessions of a Crap Artist), 1992.
• Gather Yourselves Together (novel), WCS Books (Herndon, VA), 1994.
• Sutin, Lawrence, editor, The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings, Pantheon (New York City), 1995.
• A Scanner Darkly (novel), 1998.
• Also author of unpublished novels A Time for George Stavros, Nicholas and the Higs, and Voices from the Street. Author of radio scripts for the Mutual Broadcasting System. Contributor of over 100 stories, some under pseudonym Richard Phillips, to Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and othermagazines.

Adaptations:

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was filmed as Blade Runner released by Warner Bros., 1982; the short story "We Can Remember It forYou Wholesale" was filmed as Total Recall, released by TriStar, 1990;Confessions of a Crap Artist was filmed as Barjo, released by Myriad Pictures, 1993; the short story "Second Variety" was filmed as Screamers, released by Triumph Releasing, 1996; Dick's ideas provided the story for Impostors, released by Miramax, 1999.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

• Dick, Anne R., The Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir andBiography of the Science Fiction Writer, Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, NY), 1995.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 8:Twentieth Century American Science-Fiction Writers, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1981.
• Sutin, Lawrence, Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, Harmony Books (New York City), 1989.

Periodicals:

• Contemporary Literature, fall, 1997, p. 422.
• Extrapolation, spring, 1997, p. 82; fall, 1997, p. 222; summer, 1998, p. 148.
• New Republic, December 6, 1993, p. 34.
• Publishers Weekly, February 27, 1995, p. 28.*