Born December 16, 1928, in Chicago, IL; died of heart failure following a stroke, March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, CA; son of Joseph Edgar (a government employee) and Dorothy (Kindred) Dick; married, 1949; wife's name Jeannette (divorced); married, 1951; wife's name Kleo (divorced); married, 1958; wife's name Ann (divorced); married April 18, 1967; wife's name Nancy (divorced); married Tessa Busby, April 18, 1973 (divorced); children: (third marriage) Laura; (fourth marriage) Isolde; (fifth marriage) Christopher. Education: Attended University of California--Berkeley, 1950. Politics: "Anti-war, pro-life." Religion: Episcopalian. Memberships: Science Fiction Writers of America, Animal Protection Institute.

SCIENCE-FICTION NOVELS

• Solar Lottery (bound withThe Big Jump by Leigh Brackett), Ace Books (New York, NY), 1955, published separately, Gregg, 1976, published as World of Chance, Rich & Cowan (London, England), 1956, reprinted under original title, Vintage (New York, NY), 2003.
• The World Jones Made (bound withAgent of the Unknown by Margaret St. Clair), Ace Books (New York, NY), 1956.
• The Man Who Japed (bound with The Space-Born by E. C. Tubb), Ace Books (New York, NY), 1956 , published separately, Vintage (New York, NY), 2002.
• Eye in the Sky, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1957, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2003.
• The Cosmic Puppets (bound with Sargasso of Space by Andrew North), Ace Books (New York, NY), 1957, published separately, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1983, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2004.
• Time out of Joint, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1959, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2002.
• Dr. Futurity (also see below; bound withSlavers of Space by John Brunner), Ace Books (New York, NY), 1960, published with The Unteleported Man by Dick, 1972, published separately, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1984, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2005.
• Vulcan's Hammer (bound with The Skynappers by John Brunner), Ace Books (New York, NY), 1960, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2004.
• The Man in the High Castle, Putnam (New York, NY), 1962.
• The Game-Players of Titan, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1963.
• Martian Time-Slip, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1964.
• The Penultimate Truth, Belmont-Tower, 1964 , reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2004.
• The Simulacra, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1964, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2002.
• Clans of the Alphane Moon, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1964, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2002.
• Dr. Bloodmoney; or, How We Got Along after the Bomb, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1965, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2002.
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1965.
• Now Wait for Last Year, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1966.
• The Crack in Space (also see below), Ace Books (New York, NY), 1966, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2005.
• The Unteleported Man (also see below; bound with The Mind Monsters by Howard L. Cory), Ace Books (New York, NY), 1966, reprinted (bound with Dr. Futurity by Dick), 1972, reprinted separately, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1983.
• (With Ray Nelson) The Ganymede Takeover, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1967.
• Counter-Clock World, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1967, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2002.
• The Zap Gun, Pyramid Publications, 1967, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2002.
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Doubleday, (New York, NY) 1968, published as Blade Runner, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1982.
• Ubik (also see below), Doubleday (New York, NY), 1969.
• Galactic Pot-Healer, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1969.
• A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (contains The Crack in Space, The Unteleported Man, and Dr. Futurity), Sidgwick & Jackson (London, England), 1970.
• A Maze of Death, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1970.
• Our Friends from Frolix 8, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1970, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2003.
• We Can Build You, DAW Books (New York, NY), 1972.
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1974.
• (With Roger Zelazny) Deus Irae, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1976, reprinted, Vintage (New York, NY), 2003.
• A Scanner Darkly, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1977, reprinted, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 2006.
• VALIS, Bantam (New York, NY), 1981.
• The Divine Invasion, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1981.
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1982.
• The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, Zeising, 1984.
• Radio Free Albemuth, Arbor House, 1987.
• Nick and the Glimmung, Gollancz (London, England), 1988.
• The Little Black Box, Gollancz (London, England), 1990.
• The Minority Report, Pantheon (New York, NY), 2002.

• A Handful of Darkness, Rich & Cowan (London, England), 1955.
• The Variable Man and Other Stories, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1957.
• The Preserving Machine and Other Stories, Ace Books (New York, NY), 1969.
• The Book of Philip K. Dick, DAW Books (New York, NY), 1973, published as The Turning Wheel and Other Stories, Coronet (London, England), 1977.
• The Best of Philip K. Dick, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1977.
• The Golden Man, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1980.
• Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick, edited by Patricia Warrick and Martin H. Greenberg, Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
• Lies, Inc., Gollancz (London, England), 1984, revised edition, Vintage (New York, NY), 2004.
• I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1985.
• The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford, and Other Classic Stories, introduction by Roger Zelazny, Citadel Press (New York, NY), 1987.
• The Collected Stories, five volumes, Underwood Miller, 1987.
• Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick, introduction by Jonatham Lethem, Pantheon (New York, NY), 2002.
• Paycheck, and Twenty-four Other Classic Stories, Kensington (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to anthologies, including Time to Come, edited by August Derleth, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1954;Star Science Fiction Stories #3, edited by Frederik Pohl, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1955; A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume I, edited by Anthony Boucher, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1959; Dangerous Visions: Thirty- three Original Stories, edited by Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1967; Final Stage, edited by Edward L. Ferman and Barry N. Malzberg, Charterhouse, 1974; Science Fiction: The Academic Awakening, edited by Willis E. McNelly, College English Association, 1974; and Science Fiction at Large, edited by Peter Nicholls, Gollancz (London, England), 1976, Harper (New York, NY), 1977.

OTHER

• Confessions of a Crap Artist, Jack Isidore (of Seville, Calif.): A Chronicle of Verified Scientific Fact, 1945-1959 (novel), Entwhistle Books, 1975.
• A Letter from Philip K. Dick (pamphlet), Philip K. Dick Society, 1983.
• In Milton Lumky Territory (novel), Ultramarine, 1984.
• Ubik: The Screenplay (based on novel of same title), Corroboree, 1985.
• Puttering About in a Small Land (novel), Academy (New York, NY), 1985.
• Mary and the Giant (novel), Arbor House, 1987.
• The Broken Bubble (novel), Arbor House, 1988.
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974, edited by Paul Williams, Underwood-Miller (Novato, CA), 1991.
• Gather Yourselves Together (novel), WCS Books (Herndon, VA), 1994.
• The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings, edited by Lawrence Sutin, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1995.
• The Philip K. Dick Reader, Carol Publishing Group (Secaucus, NJ), 1997.
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938-1971, Underwood Books, 1997.
• What If Our World Is Their Heaven?: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dick, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 2000.
• Vintage PKD, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 2006.
• Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America (New York, NY), 2007.
• Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, Tor (New York, NY), 2007.
• Voices from the Street (novel), Tor (New York, NY), 2007.

Also author of unpublished novel A Time for George Stavros, Nicholas and the Higs. Author of radio scripts for Mutual Broadcasting System. Contributor of over 100 stories, some under pseudonym Richard Phillips, to Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and other magazines.