Philip K. Dick lived most of his life in California. He was born in 1928 in Chicago. In his career PKD wrote 36 novels and five short story collections between 1952 and 1982 when he died in Santa Ana, California.
As evidenced by his work, Dick's mind was complicated. While his novels and stories often offered visions of the future, many aspects of his life can been throughout his work. A Scanner Darkly was dedicated to many of his friends who died or suffered damage from drug abuse (including himself). The first person narration of Radio Free Albemuth is written from the perspective of a young science fiction writer named Philip who lives in Berkeley. Many insights into Dick's view of his world are available here. These include his distrust for government and authority, his life as a professional writer and even cosmic visions he is said to have experienced. The novels of the Valis trilogy continue to blur the lines between fiction and Dick's twisted reality.
Dick's emotional state went through many changes throughout his life. The death of his twin sister 41 days after their birth is the first of many scars Dick would face. He would be involved in a string of bad marraiges and was addicted to drugs. His level of output was inconsistent and he would experience periods of intense creativity and dark times where he wouldn't write. Throughout the 1950's Dick was beginning to make a name for himself in the science fiction world. He was writing stories for science fiction magazines and developing his own unique style that was different than the other sci-fi writers of the time. His first published novel was Solar Lottery in 1954. The political climate of the times and Dick's own paranoia involving the authority he wrote about created the atmosphere from where many of his stories would emerge. The 50's and the early 60's were very creative periods for Dick. He won the highest award in the science fiction world in 1962 for The Man In The High Castle. The 1970's produced some of Dick's best work and he continued to become well known in the science fiction community. Books such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said were written in this time period (late 60's, early 70's). The profound experience Dick refers to as 2-3-74 becomes a turning in his career and emotional stability. This event which is fictionalized in The Valis Trilogy is a series of contacts Dick claims to have had with a force beyond Earth. Called Zebra, at first (then Valis), these contacts would leave Dick speculating until his death in 1982.
Philip K. Dick has been given many labels over the years and as his work has become more known since his death. The genre of science fiction was used as an outlet to break unfamiliar ground. His work is very experimental and questions the basis of our own existence. His own emotional and psychological states play a major role in the tone of his work throughout the years. Noticing the change in Dick's writing style from the 50's to the 80's is a look at the struggles of a creative genius. His attempts to demonstrate the ever-expanding potential of the universe are personal journeys into his own realities.
PKD Novels
Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964)
Confessions Of A Crap Artist (1975)
Counter Clock World (1967)
The Crack In Space (1966)
The Divine Invasion (1981)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968)
Eye In The Sky (1957)
Flow My Tears The Policeman Said (1974)
Galactic Pot-Healer (1969)
The Game Players Of Titan (1963)
The Ganymede Takeover (1967) w/Ray Nelson
The Man In the High Castle (1962)
Martian Time-Slip (1964)
A Maze of Death (1970)
Now Wait For Last Year (1966)
Radio Free Albemuth (1985)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)
The Simulacra (1964)
Solar Lottery (1955)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964)
Time Out Of Joint (1959)
Ubik (1969)
The Unteleported Man (1966)
Valis (1981)
We Can Build You (1972)
The World Jones Made (1956)
The Zap Gun (1967)
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