Dick has been gone for 27 years now, passing away at a far too young 53. But Dick continues to be one of the most influential Sci-Fi writers ever. A number of his stories have been turned into Hollywood blockbuster films including Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall (We can Remember it for you Wholesale), Screamers (Second Variety), Next (The Golden Man), Minority Report, Paycheck, and A Scanner Darkly (all based on the stories of the same name). His 1962 novel, The Man in the High Castle is a fantastic alternate history tale and won the Hugo for best novel. The Philip K. Dick award was established in 1982 and has been awarded each year for the best, original Sci-Fi novel.
Philip Kindred Dick (1928 - 1982) or Philip K. Dick was an American writer. Most of his novels, short fiction and essays are written about science fiction. Philip K. Dick’s works were concerned with political and social structures and how they related to the individual’s sense of self and sanity.
He often presented dystopias that are dominated by political and business hegemonic organizations. Schizophrenia and drug abuse are often represented as leading to transcendentally abject states. Philip K. Dick used these plot devices to explore his larger intellectual interests of theology and metaphysics. Philip K. Dick considered himself a “fictionalizing philosopher.” His novel The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award, and his novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Time magazine declared that Dick’s Ubik was one of the greatest novels written in English since 1923. In 2007, Dick was inducted into The Library of America series. Philip K. Dick was a prolific writer, authoring over one-hundred and twenty pieces of short fiction and forty-four novels. Ten movies have been adapted from his fiction. Most famously, these movies included Blade Runner, Total Recall and A Scanner Darkly. Most of Philip K. Dick’s success came late in life or posthumously, and he spent most of his career in poverty.
Philip Kindred Dick (1928 - 1982) or Philip K. Dick was an American writer. Most of his novels, short fiction and essays are written about science fiction. Philip K. Dick’s works were concerned with political and social structures and how they related to the individual’s sense of self and sanity.
He often presented dystopias that are dominated by political and business hegemonic organizations. Schizophrenia and drug abuse are often represented as leading to transcendentally abject states. Philip K. Dick used these plot devices to explore his larger intellectual interests of theology and metaphysics. Philip K. Dick considered himself a “fictionalizing philosopher.” His novel The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award, and his novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Time magazine declared that Dick’s Ubik was one of the greatest novels written in English since 1923. In 2007, Dick was inducted into The Library of America series. Philip K. Dick was a prolific writer, authoring over one-hundred and twenty pieces of short fiction and forty-four novels. Ten movies have been adapted from his fiction. Most famously, these movies included Blade Runner, Total Recall and A Scanner Darkly. Most of Philip K. Dick’s success came late in life or posthumously, and he spent most of his career in poverty.