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Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusor…
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culture · American science fiction author (1928–1982) · novelist · essayist · science fiction writer · philosopher · writer · short story writer · author · also Philip K. Dick, PKD, Philip Kindred Dick, Philip Dick, Richard Phillips, Jack Dowland
Born 16 December 1928 · Died 2 March 1982 · Q171091
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2026· 5 entries
ScreenRant: Philip K. Dick Meets George Orwell In 3-Part J.J. Abrams Sci-Fi Series
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LAist: Philip K Dick
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LAist: The OC helped shape Philip K Dick. A festival in Fullerton celebrates the sci-fi writer
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Financial Times: Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?
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2022· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Philip K. Dick and Complete Book Reviews
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2021· 1 entry
Yahoo: How Philip K. Dick’s Sci-Fi Inspired The Weeknd’s Music
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Electric dreams of Philip K Dickleburgh | Brief letters
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Yahoo: Amazon's Philip K. Dick adaptations: Some dreamy, some drag
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2017· 3 entries
bleedingcool: Ever Wonder What Philip K. Dick Thought About Blade Runner?
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The Guardian: The endless adaptability of Philip K Dick
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The Guardian: The Philip K Dick book I love most…
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2015· 2 entries
This was adapted into a television series by Amazon Studios
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Amazon Prime Video produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle, based on Dick's 1962 novel; and in 2017 Channel 4 produced the anthology series Electric Dreams, based on various Dick storie
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2014· 1 entry
However, Gondry told French outlet Telerama (via Jeux Actu), that he was no longer working on the project
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2011· 1 entry
Dynamite Entertainment published a four-issue miniseries Total Recall, a sequel to the 1990 film Total Recall, inspired by Philip K
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2010· 1 entry
That Ridley Scott would produce an adaptation of The Man in the High Castle for the BBC, in the form of a miniseries
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2007· 1 entry
Dick became the first science fiction writer included in The Library of America series
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2005).
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Time magazine named Ubik (1969) one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923
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Time magazine listed it among the "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels" published since 1923
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1999· 1 entry
And by the Fifth Column Theatre Company at the Oval House Theatre in London in the same year
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1994· 1 entry
A biographical documentary as part of its Arena arts series called Philip K
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1993· 1 entry
French writer Emmanuel Carrère published I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Tähtivaeltaja Award for The Man in the High Castle (1992).
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1990· 4 entries
Awarded Readercon Small Press Awards for The Dark-Haired Girl (1990).
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Awarded Tähtivaeltaja Award for A Scanner Darkly (1990).
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DC Comics published the official adaptation of the original film as a DC Movie Special: Total Recall
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And in 2012), Screamers (1995), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Readercon Small Press Awards for Valis (1989).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Work for Valis (1985).
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Blade Runner (1983).
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The year after Dick's death
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1982· 12 entries
Died 1982-03-02.
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Dick suffered another stroke in the hospital, which led to brain death
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After completing an interview, Dick contacted his therapist, complaining of failing eyesight, and was advised to go to a hospital immediately, but did not
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“Science Fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”
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Dick spent many nights writing in this journal
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“Andrew Marvell. Dla Jego Nieśmiałej Pani. „Lecz za plecami zawsze go słyszę: czasu skrzydlaty rydwan tnie ciszę, a tam, przed nami, leżą bezkresne pustynie wieczności”. – Hermes z trzaskiem zamknął tom. – Widziałem ją, tę wieczność. Poza czasem i przestrzenią, włóczyłem się pomiędzy rzeczami, których wielkość… – Urwał nie widząc sensu dyskutowania z kimkolwiek o doświadczeniu życia pozagrobowego.”
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“I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. ... I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage.”
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At the age of 53 due to complications of a stroke
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“W moich książkach nigdy nie było i nigdy nie będzie żadnego „pronarkotykowego stanowiska” – odparłem z gniewem – Piszę o narkotykach i o braniu narkotyków, ale to nie znaczy, że jestem ich zwolennikiem. Inni ludzie piszą o przestępczości i przestępcach, ale nie czyni to z nich zwolenników przestępczości”
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“Kogo bogowie zauważają, tego niszczą. Bądź mały… a unikniesz zawiści wielkich.”
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
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“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
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1979· 1 entry
Won Golden Graoully for Best Foreign Novel for A Scanner Darkly (1979).
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1978· 3 entries
Awarded BSFA Award for Best Novel for A Scanner Darkly (1978).
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“An Interview With America’s Most Brilliant Science-Fiction Writer (Philip K. Dick)”
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“How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later”
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1977· 1 entry
“If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others”
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1975).
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“A Scanner Darkly (1977) was the first complete novel I had written without speed”
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1974· 4 entries
While recovering from the effects of sodium pentothal administered for the extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth, Dick received a home delivery of Darvon from a young woman
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“Opis: w donosie do FBI, 1974.”
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Dick's work engaged more explicitly with issues of theology, metaphysics, and the nature of reality, as in the novels A Scanner Darkly (1977), VALIS (1981), and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)
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Dick wrote a letter to the FBI, accusing various people, including University of California, San Diego professor Fredric Jameson, of being foreign agents of Warsaw Pact powers
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1972· 1 entry
Dick attempted suicide by taking an overdose of the sedative potassium bromide
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1971· 1 entry
Dick's marriage to Nancy Hackett broke down, and she moved out of their house in Santa Venetia, California
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1968· 1 entry
Joined the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest", an anti-war pledge to pay no U
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1965· 1 entry
Wrote the essay titled "Schizophrenia and the Book of Changes"
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1964· 2 entries
“Drugs, Hallucinations, and the Quest for Reality”
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Dick moved to Oakland to live with a fan, author and editor Grania Davis
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1963· 5 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Man in the High Castle (1963).
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“dreadful violent fights...slamming each other around, smashing every object in the house.”
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Dick wrote to a friend that he and Anne had "dreadful violent fights...slamming each other around, smashing every object in the house." In 1963, Dick told his neighbors that his wife was attempting to kill him and had her involuntarily committed to a psychiatric institution for two weeks.
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Dick won the Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle
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Dick told his neighbors that his wife was attempting to kill him and had her involuntarily committed to a psychiatric institution for two weeks
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1962· 2 entries
In an alternate universe where the Axis Powers won the Second World War and named for Hawthorne Abendsen, the author of its novel-within-a-novel, it depicts an alternate universe where the Protestant Reformation occurred
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For the British television anthology series Out of This World
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1960· 2 entries
“take twenty to thirty years to succeed as a literary writer”
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Dick wrote that he was willing to "take twenty to thirty years to succeed as a literary writer"
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1955· 3 entries
As half of Ace Double #D-103 alongside The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett
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Dick and his second wife, Kleo Apostolides, received a visit from the FBI, which they believed to be the result of Kleo's socialist views and left-wing activities
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And the subsequent friendship that developed between Phil and FBI Agent Scruggs
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1928· 2 entries
Born 1928-12-16.
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In Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (née Kindred; 1900–1978) and Joseph Edgar Dick (1899–1985), who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture
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