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Philip K. Dick bibliography

The bibliography of Philip K. Dick includes 44 novels, 121 short stories, and 14 short story collections published by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) during his lifetime.

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At the time of his death, Dick's work was generally known to only science fiction readers, and many of his novels and short stories were out of print. To date, a total of 44 novels have been published and translations have appeared in 25 languages. Six volumes of selected correspondence, written by Dick from 1938 through 1982, were published between 1991 and 2009.

The Library of America has issued three collections of Dick's novels. The first, published in June 2007, contained The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik, and was the first time science fiction was included in the LOA canon. The second collection was issued in July 2008 and included Martian Time Slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, Now Wait for Last Year, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, and A Scanner Darkly. The third collection was published in July 2009 and included A Maze of Death and the VALIS trilogy (VALIS, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer).

At least nine films have been adapted from Dick's work, with Blade Runner (1982) widely considered a "masterpiece".

Five recurring philosophical themes in Dick's work have been classified by Philip K. Dick scholar Erik Davis: false realities, human vs. machine, entropy, the nature of God, and social control. In Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl Link discussed eight themes or 'ideas and motifs': Epistemology and the Nature of Reality, Know Thyself, The Android and the Human, Entropy and Pot Healing, The Theodicy Problem, Warfare and Power Politics, The Evolved Human, and 'Technology, Media, Drugs and Madness'.

Published works

Dates in this bibliography are for completion of first (and usually only) draft. Publication dates follow separately.

  • (+) indicates subsequent significant expansion
  • (*) indicates subsequent revision or minor expansion
  • (LOA#) indicates the volume of the Library of America omnibus (see below)
  • Library of America

    The Library of America has republished 13 of Dick's 44 novels:

    2007
    Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle/The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Ubik ISBN 978-1-59853-009-4
    2008
    Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s: Martian Time Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly ISBN 978-1-59853-025-4
    2009
    Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels: A Maze of Death/VALIS/The Divine Invasion/The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ISBN 978-1-59853-044-5

    Short story collections

    1955
    A Handful of Darkness
    1956
    The Variable Man
    1969
    The Preserving Machine
    1973
    The Book of Philip K. Dick (reissued in 1977 as The Turning Wheel and Other Stories)
    1977
    The Best of Philip K. Dick
    1980
    The Golden Man
    1984
    Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities
    1985
    I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
    1987
    The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
    1988
    Beyond Lies the Wub
    1989-
    Second VarietyThe Father-Thing
    1990
    The Days of Perky PatThe Little Black BoxThe Short Happy Life of the Brown OxfordWe Can Remember It for You Wholesale
    1991
    The Minority ReportSecond Variety
    1992
    The Eye of the Sibyl
    1997
    The Philip K. Dick Reader
    2002
    Minority ReportSelected Stories of Philip K. Dick
    2004
    Paycheck
    2006
    Vintage PKD
    2009
    The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume One: The Variable Man & Other Stories. Prime Books. ISBN 978-1-60701-202-3The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume Two: Breakfast at Twilight & Other Stories. Prime Books. November 2009. ISBN 1-60701-203-0.
    2013
    The Best of Philip K. Dick. Introduction by David Gill, Philip K. Dick scholar Echo Point Books & Media. ISBN 978-0615561189

    Comparison of editions

    The five volumes of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick were re-published and sold separately by Gollancz and later by Citadel Twilight and by Subterranean Press. For the Citadel Twilight editions the volumes were renamed and two stories were moved from one volume to another. The following table provides a comparison of the corresponding volumes from the various editions.

    Short stories

    1952
    "Beyond Lies the Wub""The Gun""The Little Movement""The Skull"
    1953
    1954
    1955
    1956
    "The Minority Report""Pay for the Printer""To Serve the Master""Vulcan's Hammer"
    1957
    "Misadjustment""The Unreconstructed M"
    1958
    "Null-O"
    1959
    "Explorers We""Fair Game""Recall Mechanism""War Game"
    1963
    "The Days of Perky Pat""If There Were No Benny Cemoli""Stand-by""What'll We Do with Ragland Park?"
    1964
    1965
    "Retreat Syndrome"
    1966
    "Holy Quarrel""We Can Remember It for You Wholesale""Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday"
    1967
    "Faith of Our Fathers""Return Match"
    1968
    "Not by Its Cover""The Story to End All Stories for Harlan Ellison’s Anthology ''Dangerous Visions''"
    1969
    "The Electric Ant"
    1974
    "The Pre-persons""A Little Something for Us Tempunauts"
    1979
    "The Exit Door Leads In"
    1980
    "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (Originally titled "Frozen Journey".)"Rautavaara's Case""Chains of Air, Web of Aether"
    1981
    "The Alien Mind"
    1984
    "Strange Memories of Death"
    1987
    "Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked""The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree""The Eye of the Sibyl""Stability""A Terran Odyssey"
    1988
    "Goodbye, Vincent"

    Other short works

    1987
    "Fawn, Look Back" (novel outline)
    1992
    "The Different Stages of Love" (previously unpublished passage from Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said)
    2010
    "Menace React" (fragment)

    Collected non-fiction

  • 1988: The Dark Haired Girl
  • 1995: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings
  • 2011: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem and Pamela Jackson, eds. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publisher
  • Correspondence

  • The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938–1971. Grass Valley, California : Underwood Books, 1996 (Trade edition) ISBN 1-887424-20-2 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 1-887424-21-0
  • The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1972–1973. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1994 ISBN 0-88733-161-0
  • The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1991 ISBN 0-88733-104-1
  • The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1975–1976. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 ISBN 0-88733-111-4
  • The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977–1979. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 ISBN 0-88733-120-3
  • The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980–1982. Grass Valley, California : Underwood Books, 2010 (Trade edition) ISBN 1-887424-26-1 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 1-887424-27-X
  • References

    Philip K. Dick bibliography Wikipedia


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