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]

Published works

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

Novels by year of composition

YearTitlePublishedNotes
1950Gather Yourselves Together1994
1952Voices from the Street2007
1953Vulcan's Hammer1960+
1953Dr. Futurity1960+
1953The Cosmic Puppets1957
1954Solar Lottery1955
1954Mary and the Giant1987
1954The World Jones Made1956
1955Eye in the Sky1957
1955The Man Who Japed1956
1956A Time for George StavrosManuscript lost
1956Pilgrim on the HillManuscript lost
1956The Broken Bubble1988
1957Puttering About in a Small Land1985
1958Nicholas and the HigsManuscript lost.
1958Time Out of Joint1959
1958In Milton Lumky Territory1985
1959Confessions of a Crap Artist1975
1960The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike1984
1960Humpty Dumpty in Oakland1986
1961The Man in the High Castle1962Hugo Award winner, 1963;[10]
LOA1
1962We Can Build You1972First published as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum as a serial in Amazing Stories issues for November 1969 and January 1970.
1962Martian Time-Slip1964LOA2; first published as All We Marsmen as a serial in Worlds of Tomorrow issues for August, October and December 1963.
1963Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb1965Nebula Award nominee, 1965;[11] LOA2
1963The Game-Players of Titan1963
1963The Simulacra1964
1963The Crack in Space1966as Cantata-140 (1966)
1963Now Wait for Last Year1966LOA2
1964Clans of the Alphane Moon1964
1964The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch1965Nebula Award nominee, 1965;
LOA1
1964The Zap Gun1967First published as Project Plowshare as a serial in Worlds of Tomorrow issues for November 1965 and January 1966.
1964The Penultimate Truth1964
1964Deus Irae1976with Roger Zelazny *+
1964The Unteleported Man1966as Lies, Inc. (1984) *+
1965The Ganymede Takeover1967with Ray Nelson *
1965Counter-Clock World1967+
1966Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?1968Nebula Award nominee, 1968;[12]
LOA1
1966Nick and the Glimmung1988For children
1966Ubik1969LOA1
1968Galactic Pot-Healer1969
1968A Maze of Death1970LOA3
1969Our Friends from Frolix 81970
1970Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said1974Nebula Award nominee, 1974;[13]
John W. Campbell Award winner, 1975;[14]
Hugo Award nominee, 1975;
Locus Award nominee, 1975;
LOA2 *
1973A Scanner Darkly1977British Science Fiction Award winner, 1978;[15]
John W. Campbell Award nominee, 1978;
LOA2 *
1976Radio Free Albemuth1985
1978VALIS1981LOA3
1980The Divine Invasion1981British Science Fiction Award nominee, 1982;[16]
LOA3
1981The Transmigration of Timothy Archer1982Nebula Award nominee, 1982;
Locus Award nominee, 1983;[17]
LOA3
1982The Owl in DaylightUnfinished

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.

    published by Underwood-Millerpublished by Gollanczpublished by Citadel Twilightpublished by Subterranean Press
    The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1 (1987)Beyond Lies the Wub (1988)The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990)The King of the Elves (2010)

    "Menace React" added

    The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 2 (1987)Second Variety (1989)We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990)

    "Second Variety" removed

    "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" added

    Adjustment Team (2011)Contents reverted to original contents of Second Variety (1989)
    The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 3 (1987)The Father-Thing (1989)Second Variety (1991)

    "Second Variety" added

    Upon the Dull Earth (2012)Contents reverted to original contents of The Father-Thing (1989)
    The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4 (1987)The Days of Perky Pat (1990)The Minority Report (1991)The Minority Report (2013)
    The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 5 (1987)The Little Black Box (1990)The Eye of the Sibyl (1992)

    "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" removed

    We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (2014)

    "Goodbye Vincent" added, "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" added back

    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

    Film adaptations

    Film Date Director Source
    work
    Date Type TV Series
    or Sequel
    Date
    1 Blade Runner 1982 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 Novel Sequel: Blade Runner 2049 2017
    2 Total Recall 1990 "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" 1966 Short story TV series: Total Recall 2070[27] 1999
    3 Confessions d'un Barjo 1992 Jérôme Boivin Confessions of a Crap Artist 1975 Novel
    4 Screamers 1995 "Second Variety" 1953 Short story Sequel: Screamers: The Hunting 2009
    5 Minority Report 2002 "The Minority Report" 1956 Short story TV series: Minority Report 2015
    6 Impostor 2002 "Impostor" 1953 Short story 1962
    7 Paycheck 2003 "Paycheck" 1953 Short story
    8 A Scanner Darkly 2006 A Scanner Darkly 1977 Novel
    9 Next 2007 "The Golden Man" 1953 Short story
    10 Radio Free Albemuth 2010 John Alan SimonRadio Free Albemuth 1976 Novel
    11 The Adjustment Bureau 2011 "Adjustment Team" 1954 Short story
    12 Total Recall 2012 "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" 1966 Short story TV series: Total Recall 2070 1999
    13 "The Man in the High Castle" 1962 Novel TV series: The Man in the High Castle 2015
    14 01 - The Hood Maker02 - Impossible Planet

    03 - The Commuter

    04 - Crazy Diamond

    05 - Real Life

    06 - Human Is

    07 - The Father Thing

    08 - Autofac

    09 - Safe and Sound

    10 - Kill All Others

    "The Hood Maker"
    "The Impossible Planet"
    "The Commuter"
    "Sales Pitch"
    "Exhibit Piece"
    "Human Is"
    "The Father-thing"
    "Autofac"
    "Foster, You're Dead!"
    "The Hanging Stranger"
    1955
    1953
    1953
    1954
    1954
    1955
    1954
    1955
    1955
    1953
    Short stories TV series: Electric Dreams 2017–2018

    Further reading

    Primary bibliographies

    Biographies

    Interviews

    Book-length critical studies

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. 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 .
    2. 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 .
    3. 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 .
    4. 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 .
    5. 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 .
    6. 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 .
    7. 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 .
    8. Book: Link, Eric Carl. Understanding Philip K. Dick. 48. University of South Carolina Press. 2010. 978-1-57003-855-6.
    9. Link, Eric Carl (2010). pp. 48–101.
    10. 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.
    11. 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.
    12. 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.
    13. 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.
    14. 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.
    15. 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.
    16. 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.
    17. 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.
    18. Book: Dick, Philip K. The dark haired girl. 1 January 1988. Ziesing. 19561157.
    19. Book: The shifting realities of Philip K. Dick: selected literary and philosophical writings. Philip K. Dick. Lawrence. Sutin. 1 January 1995. Pantheon Books. 30734361.
    20. 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.
    21. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938-1971. Grass Valley, California : Underwood Books, 1996 (Trade edition)
    22. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1972-1973. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition)
    23. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1991 (Trade edition)
    24. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1975-1976. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1992 (Slipcased edition)
    25. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977-1979. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition)
    26. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980-1982. Nevada City, California : Underwood Books, 2009 (Trade edition)
    27. 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.
    28. 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.
    29. 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.
    30. 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.
    31. 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.