Philip K. Dick | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-22

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00:03:44 1 Early life
00:08:17 2 Career
00:08:26 2.1 Early writing
00:12:14 2.2 Flight to Canada and suicide attempt
00:16:10 2.3 Paranormal experiences
00:21:08 3 Personal life
00:24:00 4 Death
00:25:27 5 Style and works
00:25:37 5.1 Themes
00:30:47 5.2 Pen names
00:32:39 5.3 Selected works
00:43:42 5.4 Adaptations
00:43:52 5.4.1 Films
00:51:11 5.4.2 Television
00:53:30 5.4.3 Stage and radio
00:56:20 5.4.4 Comics
00:58:08 5.5 Alternative formats
00:59:21 6 Influence and legacy
01:03:57 6.1 Film
01:06:05 6.2 In fiction
01:10:11 6.3 Music
01:13:59 6.4 Radio
01:14:30 6.5 Theater
01:15:02 6.6 Contemporary philosophy
01:17:02 7 Awards and honors
01:19:11 8 Philip K. Dick Award
01:20:22 9 See also



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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. His work explored philosophical, social, and political themes, with stories dominated by monopolistic corporations, alternative universes, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. His writing also reflected his interest in metaphysics and theology, and often drew upon his life experiences, addressing the nature of reality, identity, drug abuse, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences.  Dick produced 44 published novels and approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dick moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family at a young age. He began publishing science fiction stories in 1951, at the age of 22. His stories initially found little commercial success, but his 1962 alternative history novel The Man in the High Castle earned Dick early acclaim, including a Hugo Award for Best Novel. He followed with science fiction novels such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Ubik (1969). His 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Following a series of paranormal 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). A collection of his nonfiction writing on these themes was published posthumously as The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011). He died in 1982 in Santa Ana, California, at the age of 53, due to complications from a stroke.
A variety of popular Hollywood films based on Dick's works have been produced, including  Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and The Adjustment Bureau (2011). Meanwhile, the novel The Man in the High Castle (1962) was made into a multi-season television series by Amazon, starting in 2015.
In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik (1969) one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923.  In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer ever to be included in The Library of America series.