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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.

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. To date, a total of 44 novels have been published and translations have appeared in 25 languages. 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. 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.

Recurring themes in Dick's work

Five recurring philosophical themes in Dick's work have been classified by Philip K. Dick scholar Erik Davis:

• False realities
• Human vs. machine
• Entropy
• The nature of God
• Social control

Similarly, in Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl Link discussed eight themes or 'ideas and motifs':

• 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

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 ISBN 978-1-59853-009-4

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 ISBN 978-1-59853-025-4

2009

Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels: A Maze of Death/VALIS/The Divine Invasion/The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ISBN 978-1-59853-044-5

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

The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume One: The Variable Man & Other Stories. Prime Books. ISBN 978-1-60701-202-3

The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume Two: Breakfast at Twilight & Other Stories. Prime Books. November 2009. ISBN 1-60701-203-0.

2013

The Best of Philip K. Dick. Introduction by David Gill, Philip K. Dick scholar Echo Point Books & Media. ISBN 978-0615561189

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

"The Builder"

"Colony"

"The Commuter"

"The Cookie Lady"

"The Cosmic Poachers"

"The Defenders"

"Expendable"

"The Eyes Have It"

"The Great C" (adapted into the novel Deus Irae)

"The Hanging Stranger"

"The Impossible Planet"

"Impostor"

"The Indefatigable Frog"

"The Infinites"

"The King of the Elves"

"Martians Come in Clouds"

"Mr. Spaceship"

"Out in the Garden"

"Paycheck"

"Piper in the Woods"

"Planet for Transients"

"The Preserving Machine"

"Project: Earth"

"Roog"

"Second Variety"

"Some Kinds of Life"

"Tony and the Beetles"

"The Trouble with Bubbles"

"The Variable Man"

"The World She Wanted"

1954

"Adjustment Team"

"Beyond the Door"

"Breakfast at Twilight"

"The Crawlers"

"The Crystal Crypt"

"Exhibit Piece"

"The Father-thing"

"The Golden Man"

"James P. Crow"

"Jon's World"

"The Last of the Masters" (aka "Protection Agency")

"Meddler"

"Of Withered Apples"

"A Present for Pat"

"Prize Ship"

"Progeny"

"Prominent Author"

"Sales Pitch"

"Shell Game"

"The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford"

"Small Town"

"Souvenir"

"Strange Eden"

"Survey Team"

"Time Pawn"

"The Turning Wheel"

"Upon the Dull Earth"

"A World of Talent"

1955

"Autofac"

"Captive Market"

"The Chromium Fence"

"Foster, You're Dead!"

"The Hood Maker"

"Human Is"

"The Mold of Yancy"

"Nanny"

"Psi-man Heal My Child!"

"Service Call"

"A Surface Raid"

"War Veteran"

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

"Cantata 140"

"A Game of Unchance"

"The Little Black Box"

"Novelty Act"

"Oh, to Be a Blobel!"

"Orpheus with Clay Feet"

"Precious Artifact"

"The Unteleported Man"

"Waterspider"

"What the Dead Men Say"

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

• 1988: The Dark Haired Girl
• 1995: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings
• 2011: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem and Pamela Jackson, eds. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publisher

Correspondence

• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938–1971. Grass Valley, California : Underwood Books, 1996 (Trade edition) ISBN 1-887424-20-2 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 1-887424-21-0
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1972–1973. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) ISBN 0-88733-161-0 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 0-88733-162-9
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1991 (Trade edition) ISBN 0-88733-104-1 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 0-88733-105-X
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1975–1976. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1992 (Trade edition) ISBN 0-88733-111-4 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 088733-112-2
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977–1979. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) ISBN 0-88733-120-3 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 088733-121-1
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980–1982. Nevada City, California : Underwood Books, 2009 (Trade edition) ISBN 978-1-887424-26-4 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 978-1-887424-27-1

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). ISBN 9781478101949 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). ISBN 9781502725684 www.wide-books.com Full color, 216 pages

Biographies

• Arnold, Kyle (2016), The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0199743258
• Capanna, Pablo (1995). Philip K. Dick - Idios Kosmos. Almagesto (Spanish Language) ISBN 950-751-112-1
• Carrère, Emmanuel. Bent, Timothy. (translator) (2005). I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick. Picador. ISBN 0-312-42451-5
• 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. ISBN 0-7734-9137-6
• Mason, Darryl. (In Progress). The Biography of Philip K. Dick. Gollancz. ISBN 0-575-07280-6
• Mini, Anne. A Family Darkly : Love, Loss, and the Final Passions of Philip K. Dick. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-1638-X (Unpublished)
• Peake, Anthony. (2013). A Life of Philip K. Dick - A Man Who Remembered the Future. Arcturus Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-78212-242-5
• Queyssi, Laurent & Marchesi, Mauro (2019). Philip K. Dick, a comics biography, NBM. ISBN 978-1681121918
• Rickman, Gregg. (1989). To the High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962. Fragments West. ISBN 978-0-916063-24-5
• Sutin, Lawrence (Official biographer). (1989). Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick. Citadel Press; Rep edition. ISBN 0-8065-1228-8
• Williams, Paul. (1986). Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick. Entwhistle Books. ISBN 0-934558-31-0
• Wilson, Colin. "Was Philip K. Dick Possessed by an Angel?" (1992) in Unsolved Mysteries Past and Present. Contemporary Books. ISBN 0-8092-4091-2

Interviews

• Apel, D. Scott. (1999). Philip K. Dick : The Dream Connection. The Impermanent Press. ISBN 1-886404-03-8
• Lee, Gwen (ed). (2000) What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations Of Philip K. Dick. Overlook Press. ISBN 1-58567-378-1
• 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. ISBN 1-4116-3349-0
• Butler, Andrew M. (2000). Philip K. Dick. Pocket Essentials. ISBN 1-903047-29-3
• Butler, Andrew M. (2007). Philip K. Dick. Pocket Essentials. ISBN 978-1-904048-92-3
• De Angelis, Valerio Massimo and Umberto Rossi (eds.) (2006). Trasmigrazioni: I mondi di Philip K. Dick. Le Monnier. ISBN 978-88-00-20475-0
• Frasca, Gabriele (2007). L'oscuro scrutare di Philip K. Dick. Meltemi. ISBN 978-88-8353-538-3
• Caronia, Antonio and Domenico Gallo (eds.) (2006). La macchina della paranoia: Enciclopedia dickiana. X Book. ISBN 978-88-95029-09-2
• 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). ISBN 978-0-87972-510-5
• Kucukalic, Lejla (2008). Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96242-1
• Lemant, Aurélien (2012). TRAUM : Philip K. Dick, le martyr onirique. Editions Le Feu Sacré. ISBN 978-2-9541294-1-9
• Link, Eric Carl (2010). Understanding Philip K. Dick. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-855-6
• Lampe, Evan (2015). Philip K. Dick and the World We Live In Wide Books. ISBN 9781508741497
• Lord R.C. (2007) PINK BEAM: A Philip K. Dick Companion Lulu Publishers. Trade paperback, 322pp. ISBN 978-1-4303-2437-9
• Mackey, Douglas A. (1988). Philip K. Dick. Twayne. ISBN 0-8057-7515-3
• 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. ISBN 0-7618-2673-4
• Mullen, R.D. (editor). (1992). On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-Fiction Studies. SF-TH. ISBN 0-9633169-1-5
• 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. ISBN 0-85323-628-3
• Pierce, Hazel. (1982). Philip K. Dick. Borgo Press. ISBN 0-916732-33-9
• Rickels, Laurence A. (2010). I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-6666-9
• 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). ISBN 1-84023-968-9
• Robinson, Kim Stanley (1989). The Novels of Philip K. Dick. Umi Research Press. ISBN 0-8357-2014-4
• Rossi, Umberto (2011). The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick: A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels, Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4883-8
• Umland, Stanley J. (1995). Philip K. Dick: Contemporary Critical Interpretations. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29295-7
• Vest, Jason P. (2009). The Postmodern Humanism of Philip K. Dick. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-810-86212-8
• 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. ISBN 0-8093-1326-X
• Warrick, Patricia S. (1986). Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick. Southern Illinois Univ. Press. ISBN 0-8093-1178-X

Notes

1. Williams, Paul (2008). "Introduction to the Collections". Collections Bibliography. The Philip K Dick Estate. Archived from the original on 2008-04-11. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
2. Staples, Brent (June 8, 2007). "Philip K. Dick: A Sage of the Future Whose Time Has Finally Come". Editorial Observer. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-01-26. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
3. Williams, Paul (2008). "Introduction to the Novels Page". Novels and Collections Bibliography. The Philip K. Dick Estate. Archived from the original on 2011-06-13. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
4. McGrath, Charles (May 6, 2007). "A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last". Books. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-05-02. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
5. Stoffman, Judy (February 10, 2007). "A milestone in literary heritage". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
6. Edelstein, David (June 16, 2002). "Philip K. Dick's Mind-Bending, Film-Inspiring Journeys". Arts. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2008-06-02. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
7. Davis, Erik (December 2003). "The Metaphysics of Philip K. Dick". Issue 11.12. Wired. Archived from the original on 2008-04-17. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
8. Link, Eric Carl (2010). Understanding Philip K. Dick. University of South Carolina Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-57003-855-6.
9. Link, Eric Carl (2010). pp. 48–101.
10. "1963 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
11. ^ "1965 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
12. "1968 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2009-03-16. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
13. "1974 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
14. ^ "1975 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
15. ^ "1978 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
16. ^ "1982 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
17. "1983 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
18. Dick, Philip K (1 January 1988). The dark haired girl. Ziesing. OCLC 19561157.
19. Dick, Philip K; Sutin, Lawrence (1 January 1995). The shifting realities of Philip K. Dick: selected literary and philosophical writings. Pantheon Books. OCLC 30734361.
20. Itzkoff, Dave (29 April 2010). "Philip K. Dick's 'Exegesis' Will Receive Two-Volume Release". Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
21. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938-1971. Grass Valley, California : Underwood Books, 1996 (Trade edition) ISBN 1-887424-20-2
22. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1972-1973. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) ISBN 0-88733-161-0
23. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1991 (Trade edition) ISBN 0-88733-104-1
24. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1975-1976. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1992 (Slipcased edition) ISBN 088733-112-2
25. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977-1979. Novato, California : Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) ISBN 088733-120-3
26. The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980-1982. Nevada City, California : Underwood Books, 2009 (Trade edition) ISBN 978-1-887424-26-4
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. Mason, Darryl (22 June 2011). "Darryl Mason". Archived from the original on 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
29. "Author! Author! » What's up with A Family Darkly?". www.annemini.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-16.
30. "Interview Anne Mini". Archived from the original on 2011-10-18. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
31. "A Family Darkly: Love, Loss And The Final Passions Of Philip K Dick - SciFi UK Review". Archived from the original on 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2011-12-31.

External links

• Philip K. Dick bibliography at IMDb
• Philip K. Dick bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Philip K. Dick at the Internet Book List
• An omnibus collection of Dick's short fiction in the public domain at Standard Ebooks
• Works by Philip K. Dick at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Philip K. Dick bibliography at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Philip K. Dick OCLC WorldCat Identity
• A complete pictorial bibliography of Philip K. Dick
• How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (Essay by PKD on his "discovery" that we are living in the Roman Empire)

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