Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Kindred Dick , often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. 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 elements such as alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th century science fiction.
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- We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
- Ubik
- The Skull
- The Preserving Machine
- The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
- The Man in the High Castle
- The Book of Philip K. Dick
- Paycheck
- Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
- Beyond Lies the Wub
- A Maze of Death
- Adjustment Team
- We Can Build You
- Vulcan's Hammer
- Voices from the Street
- Vintage PKD
- VALIS
- Time Out of Joint
- The Zap Gun
- The World Jones Made
- The Unteleported Man
- The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
- The Philip K. Dick Reader
- The Penultimate Truth
- The Man Who Japed
- The Ganymede Takeover
- The Game-Players of Titan
- The Father-Thing
- The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
- The Divine Invasion
- The Dark Haired Girl
- The Crack in Space
- The Cosmic Puppets
- The Broken Bubble
- The Best of Philip K. Dick
- Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
- Second Variety
- Puttering About in a Small Land
- Now Wait for Last Year
- Nick and the Glimmung
- Mary and the Giant
- Martian Time-Slip
- In Milton Lumky Territory
- I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
- Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
- Human Is
- Gather Yourselves Together
- Galactic Pot-Healer
- Eye in the Sky
- Dr. Futurity
- Counter-Clock World
- Confessions of a Crap Artist
- Clans of the Alphane Moon
- Breakfast at Twilight
- Beyond the Door
- A Scanner Darkly
- A Handful of Darkness
