Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
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United StatesHe spent decades writing paranoid futures where reality itself couldn't be trusted—then had mystical experiences that made him wonder if he'd been right all along. Philip K. Dick died obscure in 1982; Hollywood spent the next forty years turning his fever dreams into blockbusters.
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Born in Chicago in 1928, Philip Kindred Dick moved to the San Francisco Bay Area young and started publishing science fiction stories at 23 in 1952. Commercial success eluded him until The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award in 1962 when he was 33, followed by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in 1968 and Ubik in 1969. After years of drug use and a series of mystical experiences in 1974, his work turned harder toward theology and metaphysics—A Scanner Darkly in 1977, VALIS in 1981, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer in 1982. He died that year at 53 from stroke complications, having…
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