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Born in Chicago in 1928, Philip K. Dick lived mostly California (he attended the University of California briefly, but dropped out without completing a single class). Between 1952 and his death (of heart failure following a stroke), Dick authored 36 novels and five short-story collections, becoming one of the most influential science fiction writers. Best known for his novel Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep which was later adapted into the movie Blade Runner (as well as stories that were the inspiration for the movies Screamers and Total Recall), Dick also won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1962 The Man in the High Castle , and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

Of Dick, the Village Voice says "Dick [was] many authors: a poor man's Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing counterculture." Norman Spinrad says "A hundred years from now, Dick may be recognized as the greatest American novelist of the second half of the twentieth century."

Works:

• Confessions of a Crap Artist
• The Dark Haired Girl
• Divine Invasion
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Galactic Pot-Healer
• The Game-Players of Titan
• The Man in the High Castle
• Martian Time-Slip
• A Maze of Death
• Now Wait for Last Year
• The Philip K. Dick Reader
• Puttering About in a Small Land
• Radio Free Albemuth
• A Scanner Darkly
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
• Ubik
• Valis
• We Can Build You
• The World Jones Made
• Clans of the Alphane Moon
• The Crack in Space
• Dr. Bloodmoney
• Eye in the Sky
• The Ganymede Takeover
• Time Out of Joint
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
• The Zap Gun
• The Broken Bubble
• The Cosmic Puppets
• Counter-Clock World
• Deus Irae
• Gather yourselves together
• Golden Man
• A Handful of Darkness
• I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
• In Milton Lumky Territory
• Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
• Mary and the Giant
• The Penultimate Truth
• The Preserving Machine And Other Stories
• Solar Lottery
• Time Out of Joint
• The Unteleported Man (aka Lies, Inc.)
• Vulcan's Hammer
• The Zap Gun

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