Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in 1928; his twin sister died six weeks after their birth, a loss that became a recurring motif in his work. After a brief spell at the University of California at Berkeley, he worked in record shops and said he had hosted a radio programme. In some thirty years he published more than forty novels and more than a hundred short stories. In February and March 1974 he went through a series of visionary experiences that he recorded in about eight thousand pages. He died in Santa Ana, California, in 1982, aged fifty-three.

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• NovelUbikPhilip K. Dick · 1969Literature