Philip K. Dick bibliography explained
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.[1]
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.[2] To date, a total of 44 novels have been published and translations have appeared in 25 languages.[3] 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.[4] [5] 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, the first being Blade Runner in 1982.[6]
Recurring themes in Dick's work
Five recurring philosophical themes in Dick's work have been classified by Philip K. Dick scholar Erik Davis:[7]
Similarly, in Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl Link discussed eight themes or 'ideas and motifs':[8] [9]
- 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
- '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)
Novels by year of composition
Year | Title | Published | Notes |
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1950 | Gather Yourselves Together | 1994 | |
1952 | Voices from the Street | 2007 | |
1953 | Vulcan's Hammer | 1960 | + |
1953 | Dr. Futurity | 1960 | + |
1953 | The Cosmic Puppets | 1957 | |
1954 | Solar Lottery | 1955 | |
1954 | Mary and the Giant | 1987 | |
1954 | The World Jones Made | 1956 | |
1955 | Eye in the Sky | 1957 | |
1955 | The Man Who Japed | 1956 | |
1956 | A Time for George Stavros | | Manuscript lost |
1956 | Pilgrim on the Hill | | Manuscript lost |
1956 | The Broken Bubble | 1988 | |
1957 | Puttering About in a Small Land | 1985 | |
1958 | Nicholas and the Higs | | Manuscript lost. |
1958 | Time Out of Joint | 1959 | |
1958 | In Milton Lumky Territory | 1985 | |
1959 | Confessions of a Crap Artist | 1975 | |
1960 | The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike | 1984 | |
1960 | Humpty Dumpty in Oakland | 1986 | |
1961 | The Man in the High Castle | 1962 | Hugo Award winner, 1963;[10] LOA1 |
1962 | We Can Build You | 1972 | First published as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum as a serial in Amazing Stories issues for November 1969 and January 1970. |
1962 | Martian Time-Slip | 1964 | LOA2; first published as All We Marsmen as a serial in Worlds of Tomorrow issues for August, October and December 1963. |
1963 | Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb | 1965 | Nebula Award nominee, 1965;[11] LOA2 |
1963 | The Game-Players of Titan | 1963 | |
1963 | The Simulacra | 1964 | |
1963 | The Crack in Space | 1966 | as Cantata-140 (1966) |
1963 | Now Wait for Last Year | 1966 | LOA2 |
1964 | Clans of the Alphane Moon | 1964 | |
1964 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | 1965 | Nebula Award nominee, 1965; LOA1 |
1964 | The Zap Gun | 1967 | First published as Project Plowshare as a serial in Worlds of Tomorrow issues for November 1965 and January 1966. |
1964 | The Penultimate Truth | 1964 | |
1964 | Deus Irae | 1976 | with Roger Zelazny *+ |
1964 | The Unteleported Man | 1966 | as Lies, Inc. (1984) *+ |
1965 | The Ganymede Takeover | 1967 | with Ray Nelson * |
1965 | Counter-Clock World | 1967 | + |
1966 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 1968 | Nebula Award nominee, 1968;[12] LOA1 |
1966 | Nick and the Glimmung | 1988 | For children |
1966 | Ubik | 1969 | LOA1 |
1968 | Galactic Pot-Healer | 1969 | |
1968 | A Maze of Death | 1970 | LOA3 |
1969 | Our Friends from Frolix 8 | 1970 | |
1970 | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | 1974 | Nebula Award nominee, 1974;[13] John W. Campbell Award winner, 1975;[14] Hugo Award nominee, 1975; Locus Award nominee, 1975; LOA2 * |
1973 | A Scanner Darkly | 1977 | British Science Fiction Award winner, 1978;[15] John W. Campbell Award nominee, 1978; LOA2 * |
1976 | Radio Free Albemuth | 1985 | |
1978 | VALIS | 1981 | LOA3 |
1980 | The Divine Invasion | 1981 | British Science Fiction Award nominee, 1982;[16] LOA3 |
1981 | The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | 1982 | Nebula Award nominee, 1982; Locus Award nominee, 1983;[17] LOA3 |
1982 | The Owl in Daylight | | Unfinished | |
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
- 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
- 2009:Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels: A Maze of Death/VALIS/The Divine Invasion/The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Short story collections
- 1955
A Handful of Darkness
- 1957
The Variable Man And Other Stories
- 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 Variety
The Father-Thing
- 1990
The Days of Perky Pat
The Little Black Box
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
- 1991
The Minority Report
Second Variety
- 1992
The Eye of the Sibyl
- 1997
The Philip K. Dick Reader
- 2002
Minority Report
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
- 2004
Paycheck
- 2006
Vintage PKD
- 2009
. Prime Books.
. Prime Books. November 2009. .
- 2013
The Best of Philip K. Dick. Introduction by David Gill, Philip K. Dick scholar Echo Point Books & Media. 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 (also published as Top Stand-by Job)"
"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"
"The War with the Fnools"
- 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)Speeches
- 1972
"The Android and the Human" (Delivered in Vancouver, Canada)
- 1977
"If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" (Delivered in Metz, France)
- 1978
"How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later" (Undelivered, essay only)Collected non-fiction
Correspondence
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938–1971. Grass Valley, California : Underwood Books, 1996 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) [21]
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1972–1973. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) [22]
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1991 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) [23]
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1975–1976. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1992 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) [24]
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977–1979. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) [25]
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980–1982. Nevada City, California : Underwood Books, 2009 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) [26]
Film adaptations
Further reading
Primary bibliographies
- PRECIOUS ARTIFACTS: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, United States of America and United Kingdom Editions, 1955 - 2012. Compiled by Henri Wintz and David Hyde. (Wide Books 2012). www.wide-books.com Full color, 142 pages
- PRECIOUS ARTIFACTS 2: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, The Short Stories, United States, United Kingdom and Oceania, 1952 - 2014. Compiled by Henri Wintz and David Hyde (Wide Books 2014). www.wide-books.com Full color, 216 pages
Biographies
- Arnold, Kyle (2016), The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick. Oxford University Press.
- Capanna, Pablo (1995). Philip K. Dick - Idios Kosmos. Almagesto (Spanish Language)
- Carrère, Emmanuel. Bent, Timothy. (translator) (2005). . Picador.
- Dick, Ann R. (Former Wife). (1995). Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer. Edwin Mellen Press.
- Mason, Darryl. (In Progress[28]). The Biography of Philip K. Dick. Gollancz.
- Mini, Anne. A Family Darkly : Love, Loss, and the Final Passions of Philip K. Dick. Carroll & Graf. (Unpublished[29] [30] [31])
- Peake, Anthony. (2013). A Life of Philip K. Dick - A Man Who Remembered the Future. Arcturus Publishing Limited.
- Queyssi, Laurent & Marchesi, Mauro (2019). Philip K. Dick, a comics biography, NBM.
- Rickman, Gregg. (1989). To the High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962. Fragments West.
- Sutin, Lawrence (Official biographer). (1989). Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick. Citadel Press; Rep edition.
- Williams, Paul. (1986). . Entwhistle Books.
- Wilson, Colin. "Was Philip K. Dick Possessed by an Angel?" (1992) in Unsolved Mysteries Past and Present. Contemporary Books.
Interviews
- Apel, D. Scott. (1999). Philip K. Dick : The Dream Connection. The Impermanent Press.
- Lee, Gwen (ed). (2000) What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations Of Philip K. Dick. Overlook Press.
- Rickman, Gregg. (1984). Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words. Fragments West.
- Rickman, Gregg. (1985). Philip K. Dick: The Last Testament. Fragments West.
Book-length critical studies
- Arnold, Kyle. (2016). The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick. Oxford University Press.
- Barlow, Aaron. (2005). How Much Does Chaos Scare You?: Politics, Religion, And Philosophy in the Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Lulu Press.
- Butler, Andrew M. (2000). Philip K. Dick. Pocket Essentials.
- Butler, Andrew M. (2007). Philip K. Dick. [Enlarged edition] Pocket Essentials.
- De Angelis, Valerio Massimo and Umberto Rossi (eds.) (2006). Trasmigrazioni: I mondi di Philip K. Dick. Le Monnier.
- Frasca, Gabriele (2007). L'oscuro scrutare di Philip K. Dick. Meltemi.
- Caronia, Antonio and Domenico Gallo (eds.) (2006). La macchina della paranoia: Enciclopedia dickiana. X Book.
- Kerman, Judith B. (ed.). Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1991). Rpt. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press (1995).
- Kucukalic, Lejla (2008). Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age. London: Routledge.
- Lemant, Aurélien (2012). TRAUM : Philip K. Dick, le martyr onirique. Editions Le Feu Sacré.
- Link, Eric Carl (2010). Understanding Philip K. Dick. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press.
- Lampe, Evan (2015). Philip K. Dick and the World We Live In Wide Books.
- Lord R.C. (2007) PINK BEAM: A Philip K. Dick Companion Lulu Publishers. Trade paperback, 322pp.
- Mackey, Douglas A. (1988). Philip K. Dick. Twayne.
- Mckee, Gabriel. (2004). Pink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter : The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick. University Press of America.
- Mullen, R.D. (editor). (1992). On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies. SF-TH.
- Olander, Joseph D. and Martin Harry Greenberg (eds.) (1983). Philip K. Dick. New York: Taplinger.
- Palmer, Christopher. (2003). Philip K. Dick : Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern. Liverpool Univ. Press.
- Pierce, Hazel. (1982). Philip K. Dick. Borgo Press.
- Rickels, Laurence A. (2010). I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Rispoli, Francesca (2001). Universi che cadono a pezzi: La fantascienza di Philip K. Dick. Milano: Bruno Mondadori.
- Robb, Brian J. (2006). Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick On Film. Titan Books (UK).
- Robinson, Kim Stanley (1989). The Novels of Philip K. Dick. Umi Research Press.
- Rossi, Umberto (2011). The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick: A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels, Jefferson: McFarland.
- Umland, Stanley J. (1995). Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations. Greenwood Press.
- Vest, Jason P. (2009). The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press.
- Viviani, Gianfranco and Carlo Pagetti (eds.) (1989). Philip K. Dick: Il sogno dei simulacri. Nord. ISBN n.a.
- Warrick, Patricia S. (1987). Mind in Motion: The Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Southern Illinois Univ. Press.
- Warrick, Patricia S. (1986). Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Southern Illinois Univ. Press.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Williams . Paul . Introduction to the Collections . Collections Bibliography . The Philip K Dick Estate . 2008 . 2008-04-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080411094455/http://www.philipkdick.com/works_collections.html . 2008-04-11 . dead .
- News: Staples . Brent . Philip K. Dick: A Sage of the Future Whose Time Has Finally Come . Editorial Observer . . June 8, 2007 . 2008-04-19 . 2021-01-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210126111353/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/opinion/08fri4.html?_r=1&oref=slogin . live .
- Web site: Williams . Paul . Introduction to the Novels Page . Novels and Collections Bibliography . The Philip K. Dick Estate . 2008 . 2008-04-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110613003438/http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels.html . 2011-06-13 .
- News: McGrath . Charles . A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last . Books . . May 6, 2007 . 2008-04-19 . 2023-05-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230502163237/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/06mcgr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all . live .
- News: Stoffman . Judy . A milestone in literary heritage . . February 10, 2007 . 2008-04-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121006024703/http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/179650 . October 6, 2012 .
- News: Edelstein . David . Philip K. Dick's Mind-Bending, Film-Inspiring Journeys . Arts . . June 16, 2002 . 2008-04-19 . 2008-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080602183735/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E1DD1F3DF935A25755C0A9649C8B63 . live .
- News: Davis . Erik . Erik Davis . The Metaphysics of Philip K. Dick . Issue 11.12 . . December 2003 . 2008-04-19 . 2008-04-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080417051103/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/philip.html?pg=6 . live .
- Book: Link, Eric Carl. Understanding Philip K. Dick. 48. University of South Carolina Press. 2010. 978-1-57003-855-6.
- Link, Eric Carl (2010). pp. 48–101.
- Web site: 1963 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 2009-09-27. 2012-07-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20120730134452/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1963. live.
- Web site: 1965 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 2009-09-27. 2012-05-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20120516041637/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1965. live.
- Web site: 1968 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 2009-09-27. 2009-03-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20090316125857/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1968. live.
- Web site: 1974 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 2009-09-27. 2012-07-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20120730133114/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1974. live.
- Web site: 1975 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 2009-09-27. 2012-04-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20120418233801/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1975. live.
- Web site: 1978 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 2009-09-27. 2012-07-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20120730133148/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1978. live.
- Web site: 1982 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 2009-09-27. 2016-04-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160404161525/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?Year=1982. live.
- Web site: 1983 Award Winners & Nominees. Worlds Without End. 2009-09-27. 2012-07-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20120722201338/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1983. live.
- Book: Dick, Philip K. The dark haired girl. 1 January 1988. Ziesing. 19561157.
- Book: The shifting realities of Philip K. Dick: selected literary and philosophical writings. Philip K. Dick. Lawrence. Sutin. 1 January 1995. Pantheon Books. 30734361.
- Web site: Philip K. Dick's 'Exegesis' Will Receive Two-Volume Release. Dave. Itzkoff. 29 April 2010. 1 May 2010. 22 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110822200916/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/philip-k-dicks-exegesis-will-receive-two-volume-release/. live.
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938-1971. Grass Valley, California : Underwood Books, 1996 (Trade edition)
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1972-1973. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition)
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1991 (Trade edition)
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1975-1976. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1992 (Slipcased edition)
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977-1979. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition)
- The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980-1982. Nevada City, California : Underwood Books, 2009 (Trade edition)
- Total Recall 2070 is loosely based on both Total Recall/"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" and Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? See Total Recall 2070 article for more information.
- Web site: Darryl Mason. Darryl. Mason. 22 June 2011 . 2012-01-01. 2012-04-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20120407072953/http://darrylmason.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html. live.
- Web site: Author! Author! » What's up with A Family Darkly? . www.annemini.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100116115658/http://www.annemini.com/?page_id=785 . 2010-01-16.
- Web site: Interview Anne Mini. 2011-12-31. 2011-10-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20111018175137/http://www.dickien.fr/dossiers/annemini/interview_anne_mini_dick.html. live.
- Web site: A Family Darkly: Love, Loss And The Final Passions Of Philip K Dick - SciFi UK Review. 2011-12-31. 2012-04-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20120430155309/http://scifi.uk.com/2005/09/21/a-family-darkly-love-loss-and-the-final-passions-of-philip-k-dick/. live.