In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer ever to be included in The Library of America series. ==Early life== Philip Kindred Dick and his twin sister, Jane Charlotte Dick, were born six weeks prematurely on December 16, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (née Kindred; 1900–1978) and Joseph Edgar Dick (1899–1985), who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture.
In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik (1969) one of the hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923.
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction.
In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer ever to be included in The Library of America series. ==Early life== Philip Kindred Dick and his twin sister, Jane Charlotte Dick, were born six weeks prematurely on December 16, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (née Kindred; 1900–1978) and Joseph Edgar Dick (1899–1985), who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture.
The death of Philip's twin, Jane, six weeks after their birth, on January 26, 1929, profoundly affected Philip's life, leading to the recurrent motif of the "phantom twin" in his books. Dick's family later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area.
In June 1938, Dorothy and Philip returned to California, and it was around this time that he became interested in science fiction.
Dick stated that he read his first science fiction magazine, Stirring Science Stories, in 1940. Dick attended Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California.
Le Guin were members of the class of 1947 but did not know each other at the time.
Dick claimed to have hosted a classical music program on KSMO Radio in 1947.
From 1948 to 1952, Dick worked at Art Music Company, a record store on Telegraph Avenue. ==Career== ===Early writing=== Dick sold his first story, "Roog", in 1951, when he was 22 years old, about "a dog who imagined that the garbagemen who came every Friday morning were stealing valuable food which the family had carefully stored away in a safe metal container", and from then on wrote full-time.
After graduation, he attended the University of California, Berkeley from September 1949 to November 11, 1949, ultimately receiving an honorable dismissal dated January 1, 1950.
After graduation, he attended the University of California, Berkeley from September 1949 to November 11, 1949, ultimately receiving an honorable dismissal dated January 1, 1950.
The 1950s were a difficult and impoverished time for Dick, who once lamented, "We couldn't even pay the late fees on a library book." He published almost exclusively within the science fiction genre, but dreamed of a career in mainstream fiction.
During the 1950s, he produced a series of non-genre, relatively conventional novels. In 1960, Dick wrote that he was willing to "take twenty to thirty years to succeed as a literary writer".
From 1948 to 1952, Dick worked at Art Music Company, a record store on Telegraph Avenue. ==Career== ===Early writing=== Dick sold his first story, "Roog", in 1951, when he was 22 years old, about "a dog who imagined that the garbagemen who came every Friday morning were stealing valuable food which the family had carefully stored away in a safe metal container", and from then on wrote full-time.
He began publishing science fiction stories in 1952 (age 23).
From 1948 to 1952, Dick worked at Art Music Company, a record store on Telegraph Avenue. ==Career== ===Early writing=== Dick sold his first story, "Roog", in 1951, when he was 22 years old, about "a dog who imagined that the garbagemen who came every Friday morning were stealing valuable food which the family had carefully stored away in a safe metal container", and from then on wrote full-time.
During 1952, his first speculative fiction publications appeared in July and September numbers of Planet Stories, edited by Jack O'Sullivan, and in If and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction that year.
"Some Kinds of Life" was published in October 1953 in Fantastic Universe under byline Richard Phillipps, apparently because the magazine had a policy against publishing multiple stories by the same author in the same issue; "Planet for Transients" was published in the same issue under his own name. The short story "Orpheus with Clay Feet" was published under the pen name Jack Dowland.
His debut novel was Solar Lottery, published in 1955 as half of Ace Double #D-103 alongside The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett.
During the 1950s, he produced a series of non-genre, relatively conventional novels. In 1960, Dick wrote that he was willing to "take twenty to thirty years to succeed as a literary writer".
Following the release of 21 novels between 1960 and 1970, these developments were exacerbated by unprecedented periods of writer's block, with Dick ultimately failing to publish new fiction until 1974. One day, in November 1971, Dick returned to his home to discover that it had been burglarized, with his safe blown open and personal papers missing.
Beginning in 2015, Amazon produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle based on Dick's 1962 novel, and in 2017 Channel 4 began producing the ongoing anthology series Electric Dreams based on various Dick stories.
The dream of mainstream success formally died in January 1963 when the Scott Meredith Literary Agency returned all of his unsold mainstream novels.
Only one of these works, Confessions of a Crap Artist, was published during Dick's lifetime. In 1963, Dick won the Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle.
The couple briefly befriended one of the FBI agents. He was physically abusive with his third wife, Anne Williams Rubinstein; after one argument in 1963, he attempted to push her off a cliff in a car, then later claimed she was trying to kill him, and convinced a psychiatrist to commit her involuntarily.
After filing for divorce in 1964, he moved to Oakland to live with a fan, author and editor Grania Davis.
The character Jack Bohlen in the 1964 novel Martian Time-Slip is an "ex-schizophrenic".
In 1965, he wrote the essay titled "Schizophrenia and the Book of Changes". Drug use (including religious, recreational, and abuse) was also a theme in many of Dick's works, such as A Scanner Darkly and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
In 1968, he joined the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest", an anti-war pledge to pay no U.S.
Following the release of 21 novels between 1960 and 1970, these developments were exacerbated by unprecedented periods of writer's block, with Dick ultimately failing to publish new fiction until 1974. One day, in November 1971, Dick returned to his home to discover that it had been burglarized, with his safe blown open and personal papers missing.
According to a 1975 interview in Rolling Stone, Dick wrote all of his books published before 1970 while on amphetamines.
In the introduction to the 1980 short story collection The Golden Man, Dick wrote: ===Flight to Canada and suicide attempt=== In 1971, Dick's marriage to Nancy Hackett broke down, and she moved out of their house in Santa Venetia, California.
Following the release of 21 novels between 1960 and 1970, these developments were exacerbated by unprecedented periods of writer's block, with Dick ultimately failing to publish new fiction until 1974. One day, in November 1971, Dick returned to his home to discover that it had been burglarized, with his safe blown open and personal papers missing.
Shortly thereafter, he was invited to be guest of honor at the Vancouver Science Fiction Convention in February 1972.
On March 23, 1972, Dick attempted suicide by taking an overdose of the sedative potassium bromide.
His 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W.
Following a series of religious experiences in 1974, Dick's work engaged more explicitly with issues of theology, philosophy, and the nature of reality, as in novels A Scanner Darkly (1977) and VALIS (1981).
Following the release of 21 novels between 1960 and 1970, these developments were exacerbated by unprecedented periods of writer's block, with Dick ultimately failing to publish new fiction until 1974. One day, in November 1971, Dick returned to his home to discover that it had been burglarized, with his safe blown open and personal papers missing.
A factual account of Dick's recovery program participation was portrayed in his posthumously released book The Dark Haired Girl, a collection of letters and journals from the period. ===Paranormal experiences=== On February 20, 1974, 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.
Dick told Charles Platt: "I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane." Throughout February and March 1974, Dick experienced a series of hallucinations, which he referred to as "2-3-74", shorthand for February–March 1974.
Dick wrote about the experiences, first in the semi-autobiographical novel Radio Free Albemuth and then in VALIS, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer and the unfinished The Owl in Daylight (the VALIS trilogy). In 1974, 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.
According to a 1975 interview in Rolling Stone, Dick wrote all of his books published before 1970 while on amphetamines.
In the introduction to the 1980 short story collection The Golden Man, Dick wrote: ===Flight to Canada and suicide attempt=== In 1971, Dick's marriage to Nancy Hackett broke down, and she moved out of their house in Santa Venetia, California.
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction.
He died in 1982 in Santa Ana, California, at the age of 53, due to complications from a stroke. Dick's posthumous influence has been widespread, extending beyond literary circles into Hollywood filmmaking.
federal income tax, which resulted in the confiscation of his car by the IRS. ==Death== On February 17, 1982, after completing an interview, Dick contacted his therapist, complaining of failing eyesight, and was advised to go to a hospital immediately, but did not.
On February 25, 1982, Dick suffered another stroke in the hospital, which led to brain death.
Five days later, on March 2, 1982, he was disconnected from life support and died.
Popular films based on Dick's works include Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and The Adjustment Bureau (2011).
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. ==Early life== Philip Kindred Dick and his twin sister, Jane Charlotte Dick, were born six weeks prematurely on December 16, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (née Kindred; 1900–1978) and Joseph Edgar Dick (1899–1985), who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture.
Popular films based on Dick's works include Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (adapted twice: in 1990 and in 2012), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and The Adjustment Bureau (2011).
Beginning in 2015, Amazon produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle based on Dick's 1962 novel, and in 2017 Channel 4 began producing the ongoing anthology series Electric Dreams based on various Dick stories.
In 2015 this was adapted into a television series by Amazon Studios. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) utilizes an array of science fiction concepts and features several layers of reality and unreality.
Beginning in 2015, Amazon produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle based on Dick's 1962 novel, and in 2017 Channel 4 began producing the ongoing anthology series Electric Dreams based on various Dick stories.
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