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Philip K. Dick


Born
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
December 16, 1928

Died
March 02, 1982

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences
Wells, Fyodor Dostoevsky, A.E. van Vogt, Borges, Carl Jung, Franz Kafk ...more


Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for 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. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.

In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 714,805 ratings · 34,071 reviews · 914 distinct works · Similar authors
Do Androids Dream of Electr...
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4.08 avg rating — 229,562 ratings — published 1968 — 202 editions
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The Man in the High Castle
3.68 avg rating — 94,066 ratings — published 1962 — 179 editions
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A Scanner Darkly
4.04 avg rating — 58,803 ratings — published 1977 — 92 editions
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Ubik
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4.10 avg rating — 53,717 ratings — published 1969 — 144 editions
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Flow My Tears, the Policema...
3.93 avg rating — 23,658 ratings — published 1974 — 86 editions
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The Three Stigmata of Palme...
4.01 avg rating — 22,225 ratings — published 1965 — 14 editions
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VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)
3.94 avg rating — 18,009 ratings — published 1981 — 69 editions
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The Minority Report
3.82 avg rating — 12,604 ratings — published 1956 — 39 editions
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The Collected Stories of Ph...
4.18 avg rating — 7,586 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions
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Martian Time-Slip
3.77 avg rating — 7,738 ratings — published 1964 — 60 editions
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Series by Philip K. Dick

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Quotes by Philip K. Dick

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
tags: insanity, madness, qotd, reality
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
tags: belief, real-life, reality
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“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
― Philip K. Dick
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