The Book of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick

He died in 1982, at age 53, due to complications from a stroke.ĭick's writing produced 44 published novels and approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime.A variety of popular films based on Dick's works has been produced, including Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). A collection of his non-fiction writing on these themes was published posthumously as The Exegesis of Philip K. Following a series of religious experiences in February 1974, Dick's work engaged more explicitly with issues of theology, philosophy, and the nature of reality, as in such novels as A Scanner Darkly (1977) and VALIS (1981). His 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. He followed with science fiction novels such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Ubik (1969). His 1962 alternative history novel The Man in the High Castle earned Dick early acclaim, including a Hugo Award for Best Novel. His stories initially found little commercial success.

His writing also reflected his interest in metaphysics and theology, and often drew upon his life experiences in addressing the nature of reality, identity, drug abuse, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences.īorn in Illinois, he eventually moved to California and began publishing science fiction stories in the 1950s.

His work explored philosophical, social, and political themes, with stories dominated by monopolistic corporations, alternative universes, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. Dick’s popular and influential science fiction.Philip Kindred Dick (Decem– March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. Covering all of Dick’s science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction author’s meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Dick, a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks, it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dick’s writing as well as a recognition of Rickels’s own long-documented intellectual pursuits. Dick-though in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writer’s work. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K.

The Book of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick