Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick fu un autore di fama americano di science fiction, nato a Chicago nel 1928 e trascorrendo la maggior parte della sua vita in California. Iniziò a scrivere professionalmente nel 1952 e pubblicò 36 romanzi di science fiction e 121 racconti brevi, che esplorarono questioni fondamentali su ciò che rende umani gli esseri umani e i pericoli del potere centralizzato. In seguito nella sua carriera, il suo lavoro divenne più introspectivo e metafisico, concentrandosi su questioni personali profonde riguardo alla natura di Dio.

L'opera di Dick era nota per l'esplorazione di temi politici, sociologici e metafisici. I suoi romanzi indagavano sulle implicazioni delle corporation monopolistiche, dei governi totalitari, degli stati alterati e della teologia. Incorporò anche le sue personali esperienze con l'abuso di droghe, la paranoia e la schizofrenia nel suo lavoro. I suoi libri, che includono romanzi d'amore, storie d'azione e esplorazioni di stati alterati e tradimento, sono stati pubblicati in oltre 25 lingue, e la sua scrittura è stata celebrata per la sua capacità di provocare riflessioni e di ingaggiare il lettore.

Philip K. Dick ricevette numerosi riconoscimenti e premi critici durante la sua carriera, tra cui il Hugo Award for Best Novel nel 1962 per "The Man in the High Castle" e il John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of the Year nel 1974 per "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said." Dopo la sua morte nel 1982, dieci delle sue storie furono adattate in popolari film, tra cui "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," "A Scanner Darkly," "Minority Report," "Paycheck," "Next," "Screamers," e "The Adjustment Bureau." Nel 2005, Time magazine nominò "Ubik" uno dei cento migliori romanzi in lingua inglese pubblicati dal 1923, e nel 2007, Dick divenne il primo scrittore di science fiction ad essere incluso nella serie The Library of America.
Blade Runner Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Blade Runner 1968
2 The Edge of Human 1995
3 Replicant Night 1996
4 Eye and Talon 2000
VALIS Trilogy Books
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1 VALIS 1981
2 The Divine Invasion 1981
3 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer 1982
Romanzi singoli
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1 Solar Lottery / World of Chance 1955
2 The World Jones Made 1956
3 The Man Who Japed 1956
4 Eye in the Sky 1957
5 The Cosmic Puppets 1957
6 Time Out of Joint 1959
7 Dr. Futurity 1960
8 Vulcan's Hammer 1960
9 The Man in the High Castle 1962
10 The Game-Players of Titan 1963
11 The Penultimate Truth 1964
12 The Simulacra 1964
13 The Unteleported Man 1964
14 Clans of the Alphane Moon 1964
15 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1964
16 Martian Time-Slip 1964
17 Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb 1965
18 Now Wait for Last Year 1966
19 The Crack in Space 1966
20 Counter-Clock World 1967
21 The Ganymede Takeover 1967
22 The Zap Gun 1967
23 Galactic Pot-Healer 1969
24 We Can Build You 1969
25 Ubik 1969
26 A Maze of Death 1970
27 Our Friends From Frolix 8 1970
28 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said 1974
29 Deus Irae 1976
30 A Scanner Darkly 1977
31 Lies, Inc. 1983
32 In Milton Lumky Territory 1984
33 The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike 1984
34 Radio Free Albemuth 1985
35 Puttering About in a Small Land 1985
36 Humpty Dumpty in Oakland 1986
37 Mary and the Giant 1987
38 Nick and the Glimmung 1988
39 The Broken Bubble 1988
40 Gather Yourselves Together 1994
41 Voices from the Street 2007
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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1 Beyond Lies the Wub 1951
2 The Gun 1952
3 The Skull 1952
4 The Defenders 1953
5 War Veteran 1955
6 The Minority Report 1956
7 The Unreconstructed M 1957
8 Cantata-140 1964
9 Total Recall 1966
Raccolte di racconti
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1 The Defenders and Three Others 1950
2 Beyond the Door 1954
3 The Crystal Crypt 1954
4 Small Town 1954
5 The Last of the Masters 1954
6 A Handful of Darkness 1955
7 Human Is? 1955
8 The Variable Man and Other Stories 1957
9 The Book of Philip K. Dick 1972
10 The Golden Man 1980
11 I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon 1985
12 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale 1987
13 Second Variety 1987
14 The Dark-Haired Girl 1988
15 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams 2017
16 The Eyes Have It and Other Stories 2022
Fumetti
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1 A Scanner Darkly 1977
Libri di non-fiction
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1 Confessions of a Crap Artist 1975
2 What If Our World is Their Heaven? 1982
3 In Pursuit of VALIS 1991
4 The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick 1995
The Pulp Writers Books
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1 Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 2013
2 Anthology of Sci-Fi, the Pulp Writers V1 2013
3 Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 2013
4 Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 2013
5 Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 2013
6 Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 2013
7 Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 2013
8 Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 2013
9 Anthology of Sci-Fi V5, the Pulp Writers - Alan E. Nourse 2013
10 Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 2013
11 Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 2013
12 Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 2013
13 Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 2013
14 Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 2013
15 Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 2013
16 Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 2013
17 Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 2013
18 Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 2013
19 Anthology of Sci-Fi V19 2013
20 Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 2013
21 Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 2013
22 Anthology of Sci-Fi V24 2013
The Last Interview Books
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1 Learning to Live Finally 2005
2 Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations 2009
3 Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview 2011
4 Jorge Luis Borges 2012
5 Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2013
6 James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations 2014
7 Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview 2014
8 Gabriel García Márquez 2015
9 Lou Reed 2015
10 Ernest Hemingway 2015
11 Nora Ephron: The Last Interview 2015
12 Philip K. Dick 2015
13 J. D. Salinger 2016
14 Oliver Sacks 2016
15 Jane Jacobs 2016
16 David Bowie 2016
17 Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2017
18 Christopher Hitchens 2017
19 Hunter S. Thompson 2018
20 Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2018
21 Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2018
22 Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2019
23 Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2019
24 Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2020
25 Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2020
26 Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
27 Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
28 Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
29 John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2021
30 Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations 2022
31 Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2022
32 bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2023
33 Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2023
Philip K. Dick Anthologies
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1 Star Science Fiction Stories 3 1955
2 Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963 1963
3 Alien Worlds 1964
4 The Eighth Galaxy Reader 1965
5 Dangerous Visions 2 1967
6 Dangerous Visions 1967
7 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 1970
8 Alpha 3 1972
9 Alpha 5 1974
10 Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974
11 Beyond Tomorrow 1976
12 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction 1980
13 Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters 1982
14 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 24 1982
15 Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow 1987
16 The Monster Book of Monsters 1988
17 Hunger for Horror 1988
18 Spells of Enchantment 1991
19 Visions of Fear 1992
20 Inside the Funhouse 1992
21 Invaders! 1993
22 The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993
23 Angels! 1995
24 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories 1996
25 More Amazing Stories 1998
26 The Young Oxford Book of Aliens 1999
27 Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about The End of The World 1999
28 The Vintage Book of Amnesia 2000
29 The Ultimate Cyberpunk 2002
30 The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002
31 New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction 2003
32 The Campfire Collection 2005
33 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010
34 The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack 2012
35 The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack 2013
36 Science Fiction Super Pack #1 2013
37 Contact: Stories of the New World 2013
38 The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories 2014
39 Fantastic Stories Presents 2014
40 Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories 2015
41 Tales of Time Travel - Book Three: Seven Short Science Fiction Stories 2016
42 Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction 2020
43 The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020
44 Robots Through the Ages 2023