Philip K. Dick

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Philip Kindred Dick (* 16th December 1928 in Chicago , Illinois ; † 2. March 1982 in Santa Ana , California ), pseudonyms Jack Dowland and Richard Phillips , was an American science fiction - author .

Life

Philip Kindred Dick and his twin sister, Jane Charlotte Dick, were born six weeks before the expected date on December 16, 1928. As was customary at the time, her mother Dorothy Dick (nee Kindred) did not find out that she was expecting twins until she was born. Due to the mother's lack of experience and poor medical care, the babies were malnourished and Charlotte died five weeks after birth on January 26, 1929. Dick's father, Joseph Edgar Dick, was an investigator with the Chicago Department of Agriculture at the time.

Throughout his life, Dick had a problematic relationship with his middle-class parents, both of whom worked in the civil service. The family moved to the Bay Area, San Francisco. When he was five, his father moved to Reno and the parents divorced. The mother took a job in Washington, DC and moved her son there. From 1936 to 1938, Dick attended John Eaton Elementary School , where a teacher noted that he had "an interest in and ability to tell stories." From June 1938, he and his mother lived in California again.

Dick wrote his first poems and short stories as a teenager. Due to his traumatic youth, he was temporarily in psychological care. Dick moved to Berkeley High School. He and future science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin were members of the same high school graduation class (1947), but without knowing each other. After graduation, he briefly attended the University of California . In 1948 he married Jeanette Marlin, the marriage lasted only six months.

Until 1952 he worked in a record store and as a radio presenter for classical music. He sold his first short story and started working on a novel. From 1950 to 1959 he was married to Kleo Apostolides. Dick was de-registered for troublemakers. In 1955, the couple received a visit from the FBI , probably as a result of Kleo's left-wing activities. The couple was offered to work as informants in Mexico, which both refused.

Dick was an obsessed reader; he read works on religion, philosophy (especially metaphysics ) and Gnosticism , ideas and basic motifs that flowed into many of his stories. For a short time he studied German ; German idioms kept cropping up in his novels. His financial situation was and remained bad, whereupon Dick increased his production.

The daughter Laura emerged from his marriage to Anne Williams Rubinstein (1959 to 1964). He was unable to publish his mainstream novels of the 1950s and early 1960s; he was locked into his genre when the Scott Meredith Literary Agency returned all of his designs. Only one of his works from this period, Confessions of a Crap Artist from 1959, was published in 1975 during his lifetime. He began to be interested in mind altering drugs, experimenting with amphetamines and LSD . With the help of stimulants, he wrote up to sixty pages a day. Much of the experience from that time flowed into the novel A Scanner Darkly (at times, Dick's house was a meeting place for drug addicts and criminals).

In 1966 he married Nancy Hackett, their daughter Isolde (Isa) was born in 1967, and they divorced in 1972. Dick donated his manuscripts to the collection of California State University.

In October 1972, Dick wrote letters to the FBI and the Marin County Sheriff's Office . In these letters, Dick claimed that he had been approached by a representative of a secret "obviously anti-American" organization for which he was supposed to put encrypted messages in his books, which he had refused. Dick then accused the writer Thomas M. Disch of encrypting such secret information in his 1968 novel Camp Concentration . Dick developed a paranoia about the FBI and the KGB and later blamed them for a break into his home that resulted in documents being stolen.

In 1973 Dick married Leslie Busby, his fifth wife, and their son Christopher was born in the same year. In Vancouver he attempted suicide and then went to a drug rehabilitation center for treatment.

In February and March 1974, Dick had a series of visions after recovering from dental treatment with sodium pentothal . He spent the rest of his life trying to find out whether these experiences were of psychotic or divine origin. He described his visions as laser beams and geometric patterns, interspersed with short images of Jesus and ancient Rome. He set out to find rational and religious explanations for his experiences. His studies led to the writing of the books VALIS , The Divine Invasion and The Rebirth of Timothy Archer (VALIS trilogy).

United Artists bought the film rights to Dick's novel Do androids dream of electric sheep? who was filmed as Blade Runner by Ridley Scott . Dick was involved in the making of this film, but never saw its premiere in June 1982.

Philip K. Dick suffered a stroke at his home in Santa Ana , California on February 18, 1982 , as a result of which he was admitted to hospital. There he suffered another stroke that brought his brain activity to a standstill. On March 2, 1982, life support medical devices were turned off and Philip K. Dick died. His ashes were taken to Fort Morgan, Colorado , to be buried in his twin sister's grave.

The Philip K. Dick Award for contemporary science fiction literature was established in his honor in 1982 . In 2005, Dick was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame . In 2017 an asteroid was named after him: (9004) Peekaydee .

Works

Philip K. Dick wrote 118 short stories and 43 novels and is considered one of the most important science fiction authors. He received the Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle , 1962 (Eng. The Oracle of the Mountains ) and the John W. Campbell Award for Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said , 1974 (Eng. Another world ).

Many of Dick's books are now considered modern classics in American literature . Films like Matrix or eXistenZ (with the reference to Cookies to Philip K. Dick ) are based on Dick's work and ideas. The list of film adaptations of Dick's novels and short stories is also considerable. These include: Blade Runner , Total Recall , Screamers , Impostor , Minority Report , Paycheck , A Scanner Darkly , Next and Der Plan . For Roman writers gave Dick with his ideas a template, for example, based the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney from 1956 to Dick's short story The Father-Thing (1954), in the vegetable grown man duplicates eat the originals.

Dick's works are characterized by an easily understandable, audience-oriented writing style, transparent and authentic figures and a captivating depth of the plot . His stories are often sobering and unmasking. The recognition of reality is always at the same time issue and of tension in his novels, much more than about developing a story for passive consumption. In the style of Philip K. Dick, the reader is led scene by scene from the thoughts of one protagonist into that of the next. This creates a pluralism that embodies a categorical rejection of the first-person narrator and yet does not look at the protagonists without reflection from the outside, but rather juxtaposes their partially opposing views, but also world views. Many stories end neither happily nor tragically, but leave the confused reader alone at the end of the book.

Dick has occasionally been described as a drug writer. Linked to this is the detachment of the real from the individual reality. Because in a certain sense - so Dick - every person suppresses parts of reality. Dick repeatedly deals with faith or the spirit as a link or barrier between people, in connection with one of the religions, with philosophy ( existentialism ) or science. Drugs, consumption, capitalism, society, media, abuse of power, paranoia, psychoanalysis, surveillance state and time and again the Second World War in alternative scenarios (e.g. win the war in Das Orakel Vom Berge, Germany and Japan and occupy America) mix with the “Classical” themes (space and time travel, telepathy, genetic mutations, extraterrestrials, etc.) from science fiction. The special thing about Dick is that all storylines follow a typical Dick logic, which leads to a catastrophe, but which is not a catastrophe, but only the recognition of the normal madness. Knowledge as a permanent theme in Dick's work is therefore a double-edged sword, and it can be attributed to the autobiographical features of his works that this knowledge is often put into perspective again, the feeling of gaining deeper insight then immediately gives way to the panic of (possibly) immersing oneself again to find a "fake" reality. Dick shares with the reader the inner questions of himself in an authentic way and thereby makes himself and his work extremely interesting.

Dick's universe is an inconvenient and flawed one. His protagonists are not heroes, the characters are copied from the social milieus of the 1950s and 1960s.

Philip K. Dick's novels can be roughly divided into three sections. The first period extends from his debut Eye in the Sky from 1956 to 1960. This is where the first discussions about the nature of reality, such as Time Out of Joint, arise . But also space adventures that are owed to the laws of the young science fiction market, which is determined by pulp magazines . In the second period, which lasted until around 1970, he produced around 20 novels with enormous productivity, including most of Dick's major works, such as The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch , Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik , in which he deepens his investigations into objective and subjective reality. The third phase extends from Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said from 1974 to his last books, all of which are personal utopias shaped by Dick's visions and experiences.

Philip K. Dick has also written some novels unrelated to science fiction. Of these, however, only Confessions of a Crap Artist was published during his lifetime.

Dick's novels often appeared in German-speaking countries initially in abbreviated versions, which were only completed in new editions - including in the 1990s by Haffmans Verlag . From 2002 onwards, a large number of his works were re-edited by Heyne Verlag, some with introductions or afterwords, although this series was not without errors: While We can build you (formerly The Rebel Robots ) appeared for the first time in full as The Lincoln Machine , was Simulacra cut to the German edition of the 1978th The series has since been discontinued; the new edition of Clans of the Alphane Moon announced for the beginning of 2008 no longer appeared.

In a 1968 essay entitled Self Portrait , found in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995), Dick reflects on his work and lists which books could escape his feelings after World War III ("might escape World War Three "): Eye in the Sky , The Man in the High Castle , Martian Time-Slip , Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb , The Zap Gun , The Penultimate Truth , The Simulacra , The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (which he calls the most important of them all, "the most vital of them all"), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik .

In an interview in 1976, Dick named his novel A Scanner Darkly as his best work, having finally written a real masterpiece after 25 years of writing ("had finally written a true masterpiece, after 25 years of writing").

bibliography

Novels

  • Solar Lottery . Ace Books, New York City 1955. - Latest edition by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2003, ISBN 0-575-07455-8 .
    German first publication: Reach for the sun . Translated by HG Zimmerhäckel. Alfons Semrau Verlag, Hamburg, 1958, in the booklet series Adventure in Worlds Space , No. 7. Abridged reprint in the booklet series Terra Extra , No. 47, Moewig Verlag, Munich, 1964. Main prize: Die Erde . Translated by Hans-Ulrich Nichau. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-442-23131-0 . - New edition translated by Leo P. Kreysfeld. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1985, ISBN 3-404-21183-9 .
  • The World Jones Made . Ace Books, New York City 1956. - Latest edition by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2003, ISBN 0-575-07457-4 .
    German first publication: Venus secret project . Translated by HG Zimmerhäckel. Alfons Semrau Verlag, Hamburg, 1958, in the series of magazines, Adventure in Worlds , No. 8. Abridged reprint in the series of magazines Terra Extra , No. 73, Moewig Verlag, Munich, 1965. German edition: The strange world of Mr. Jones . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1971.
  • The Man Who Japed . Ace Books, New York City 1956. - Latest edition from Vintage Books, New York City 2003, ISBN 0-375-71935-0 .
    German edition: The secret rebel . Published by Hans Joachim Alpers. Translated by Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf . Moewig, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3529-7 .
  • Eye in the sky . Ace Books, New York City 1957. - Latest edition by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2003, ISBN 0-575-07456-6 .
    German edition: And the earth stands still . Translated by Hans-Ulrich Nichau. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1971.
  • The Cosmic Puppets . Ace Books, New York City 1957. - Latest edition by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2006, ISBN 0-575-07670-4 .
    German edition: Cosmic dolls .
  • Time out of joint . JB Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia 1959. - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2003, ISBN 0-575-07458-2 .
    German first edition: Time without borders . Translated by Transgalaxis. Balowa-Verlag, Balve approx. 1965. - New edition as Zeitlose Zeit . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-442-23269-4 . - New edition as time out of joint . Translated by Gerd Burger and Barbara Krohn. Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-251-20186-7 . - Latest edition by Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-21730-6 .
  • Vulcan's hammer . Ace Books, New York City 1960. - Latest edition from Vintage Books, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-3012-9 .
    German first publication (shortened): Vulkans Hammer , Moewig Verlag, 1965, in the issue series TERRA Utopische Romane , No. 395. Later edition: Vulkan 3 . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-442-23170-1 . - New edition as Vulkans Hammer . Translated by Leo P. Kreysfeld. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1986, ISBN 3-404-22094-3 .
  • Dr. Futurity . Ace Books, New York City 1960. - Latest edition from Vintage Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4000-3009-5 .
    German edition: Chess piece in a time game . Published by Hans Joachim Alpers. Translated by Martin Eisele . Moewig, Rastatt 1983, ISBN 3-8118-3614-5 ,
  • The Man in the High Castle . GP Putnam's Sons, New York City 1962. - Latest in the SF Masterworks series. Victor Gollancz, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-575-08205-2 .
    German first edition: The oracle from the mountains . Translated by Heinz Nagel. König, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-8082-0082-0 . - New edition translated by Norbert Stöbe. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-52272-5 .
  • The Game Players of Titan . Ace Books, New York City 1963. - Latest edition by Harper Voyager, 2008, ISBN 978-0-00-711588-4 .
    German edition: The globe game . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-442-23272-4 .
  • The Penultimate Truth . Belmont Books, o. O. 1964. - Latest edition in SF Masterworks series. Victor Gollancz, London 2005, ISBN 0-575-07481-7 .
    German first edition: Ten years after the Blitz . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1970. - New edition translated by Waltraud Götting. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1984, ISBN 3-404-21177-4 .
  • Martian Time slip . Ballantine Books, 1964. - Latest edition: Victor Gollancz, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-575-07996-0 .
    German first edition: Mozart for Martians . Translated by Renate Laux. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-458-05857-5 . - New edition as Martian time lapse . Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-21726-8 .
  • The Simulacra . Ace Books, New York City 1964. - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2004, ISBN 0-575-07460-4 .
    German edition: Simulacra . Translated by Uwe Anton. Droemer Knaur, Munich, Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-426-00708-8 . - Latest edition: Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-453-53211-2 .
  • Clans of the Alphane Moon . Ace Books, New York City 1964. - Latest edition by Harper Voyager, 2008, ISBN 978-0-00-648248-2 .
    German first edition: Small moon for psychopaths . Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-404-01383-2 . - Reissued as The Clans of the Alpha Moon . Translated by Ronald M. Hahn. Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, West Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-31171-7 . - New edition as On the Alpha Moon. ISBN 3-453-52271-0 (announced but never published).
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch . Doubleday, op . Cit .1965, ISBN 0-575-07997-5 . - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2003, ISBN 0-575-07480-9 .
    German first edition: LSD astronauts . Translated by Anneliese Strauss. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971. - New edition as Die Drei Stigmata des Palmer Eldritch. Translated by Thomas Mohr. Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-251-30064-4 . - Latest edition by Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-21729-2 .
  • Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb . Ace Books, New York City 1965. - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2000, ISBN 1-85798-952-X .
    German first edition: After the end of the world . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-442-23256-2 - New edition as children of the Holocaust . Translated by Horst Pukallus. Moewig, Rastatt 1984, ISBN 3-8118-3638-2 . - Reissued as After the Bomb . Translated by Friedrich Mader. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-53004-7 . Two editions.
  • Now Wait for Last Year . Doubleday, o. O. 1966. - Latest edition: Voyager, 2009, ISBN 978-0-00-648244-4
    German first edition: Wait for the last year . Published by Hans Joachim Alpert. Translated by Thomas Ziegler. Moewig, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3520-3 . - New edition revised by Alexander Martin. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-453-53210-4 .
  • The crack in space . Ace Books, New York City 1966. - Latest edition from Vintage Books, 2005, ISBN 1-4000-3006-4 .
    German edition: The year of crises . Published by Hans Joachim Alpers. Translated by Martin Eisele . Moewig, Rastatt 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3581-5 .
  • The Unteleported Man . Ace Books, New York City 1966. - Expanded version as Lies, Inc. Berkley Books, n.d. 1983. - Latest edition from Vintage Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-3008-8 .
    German edition: The undeleported man . Translated by Karl Ulrich Burgdorf. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1984, ISBN 3-404-22069-2 . - Latest edition: 1989, ISBN 3-404-22069-2 .
  • The Zap Gun . Pyramid Books, o.r. 1967. - Latest edition by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2008, ISBN 978-0-575-07672-3 .
    German edition: The Rats' Labyrinth . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-442-23300-3 .
  • Counter-Clock World . Berkley Books, n.d. 1967. - Latest edition from Harper Voyager, 2008, ISBN 978-0-00-712770-2 .
    German first edition: Time is running back . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-442-23248-1 . - Reissued as Time is running out . - New edition as Die Zeit: On the opposite course . Translated by Thomas Ziegler. Ullstein-Verlag Frankfurt am Main / West Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-31173-3 .
  • The Ganymede Takeover . With Ray Nelson . Ace Books, New York City 1967. - Latest edition by Legend, 1991, ISBN 0-09-921490-3 .
    German edition: The invaders of Ganymede . Translated by Bernt Kling. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1976, ISBN 3-404-05193-9 .
  • Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep? , 1968. - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series. Victor Gollancz, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-575-09418-5 .
    German first edition: Do robots dream of electric sheep? Translated by Norbert Wölfl. By Schröder Verlag, Hamburg / Düsseldorf 1969. - New edition as Androids dream of electric sheep? ISBN 3-453-21728-4 . - Reissued as Blade Runner . Revised by Jacqueline Dougoud. Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-251-30019-9 . - Latest edition by Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-21728-4
    audio book: Dreaming androids . Director: Marina Dietz. Speaker: Udo Wachtveitl, Sophie von Kessel, Max Tidof. The Hör-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-89584-774-7 .
  • Galactic Pot-Healer . Berkley Books, 1969. - Latest edition by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2005, ISBN 0-575-07462-0 .
    German first edition: Joe from the Milky Way . Translated by Joachim Pente. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-436-01666-7 . - Reissued as The Galactic Pot Healer. ISBN 3-453-53013-6 . - Latest edition by Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-53013-6 .
  • Ubik . Doubleday, 1969, ISBN 0-575-07921-5 . - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2000, ISBN 1-85798-853-1 .
    German edition: Ubik . Translated by Renate Laux. Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-518-06940-3 . - New edition: Ubik and Ubik - The script . Revised by Alexander Martin. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-453-87336-X . Two editions.
  • A Maze of Death . Doubleday, 1970. - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2005, ISBN 0-575-07461-2 .
    German edition: Maze of death . Translated by Yoma Cap. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-453-30292-3 . - Latest edition: 2005, ISBN 3-453-53021-7
    audio book: Maze of death . Edited by Volker Neuhaus, read by Christina Vayhinger. Delta Music & Entertainment, o. O. 2005, ISBN 3-86538-110-3 .
  • Our Friends from Frolix 8 . Ace Books, New York City 1970, ISBN 0-441-64401-5 . … 0-575-07671-2.
    German edition: The multi-talented . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-442-23275-9 .
  • We can build you . DAW Books, New York City 1972. - Latest edition by Harper Voyager, 2008, ISBN 978-0-00-648279-6 .
    German first edition: The rebellious robots . Translated by Tony Westermayr. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-442-23252-X . - Reissued as The Lincoln Machine . Translated by Frank Böhmert. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-52270-1 .
  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said . Doubleday, 1974, ISBN 0-7838-9583-6 . - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2001, ISBN 1-85798-341-6 .
    German edition: Another world . Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-453-30394-6 . - Latest edition by Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-87403-X .
  • Confessions of a Crap Artist . Entwhistle Books, 1975. - Latest edition by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2005, ISBN 0-575-07464-7 .
    German edition: A gang of madmen . Confessions of a scrap artist. Translated by Gero Reimann and Jennifer K. Klipp-Reimann. Reidar-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-924848-04-1 .
  • Deus Irae. (with Roger Zelazny ), 1976. - Latest edition of Vintage Books, 2003, ISBN 1-4000-3007-2 .
    German edition: The god of anger . Translated by Rosemarie Hundertmarck. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-404-01125-2 .
  • A scanner darkly . Doubleday, 1977, ISBN 0-385-01613-1 . - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 1999, ISBN 1-85798-847-7 .
    German edition: The dark umbrella . Translated by Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf. Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1980. - New edition revised by Alexander Martin. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-87368-8 . Two editions.
  • Valis . Bantam Books, New York 1981, ISBN 0-553-14156-2 . - Latest edition in the SF Masterworks series by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 2001, ISBN 1-85798-339-4 .
    German edition: Valis . Contained in: The Valis Trilogy. ISBN 3-453-21727-6 .
  • The Divine Invasion . Timescape Books, New York City 1981, ISBN 0-671-41776-2 . - Latest edition: Harper Voyager, 2008, ISBN 978-0-00-648250-5 .
    German edition: The divine invasion. contained in: The Valis Trilogy. ISBN 3-453-21727-6 .
  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer . Timescape Books, New York City 1982, ISBN 0-671-44066-7 .
    German edition: The rebirth of Timothy Archer . Published by Hans Joachim Alpers. Translated by Thomas Ziegler. Moewig, Rastatt 1984, ISBN 3-8118-3659-5 . - Contained in: The Valis Trilogy. ISBN 3-453-21727-6 .
  • The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike . Written in 1960. Published posthumously by Mark V. Ziesing, Willimantic (Connecticut) 1984, ISBN 0-9612970-0-X .
    German edition: The man whose teeth were all exactly the same . Translated by Joachim Körber. Edition Phantasia, Linkenheim 1985, ISBN 3-924959-00-5 .
  • Radio Free Albemuth . Written in 1976. Published posthumously by Arbor House, Westminster, Maryland 1985, ISBN 0-87795-762-2 .
    German edition: Radio Free Albemuth . Translated by Peter Robert. Moewig, Rastatt 1987, ISBN 3-8118-3746-X .
  • Puttering About in a Small Land . Written 1957. Published posthumously by Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago 1985, ISBN 0-89733-149-4 .
    German edition: Out and about in a small country . Translated by Jürgen Bürger and Kathrin Bielfeldt. Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-935890-63-2
  • In Milton Lumky Territory . Written in 1958. Published posthumously by Dragon Press, 1985
    German edition: In Milton-Lumky-Land . Translated by Joachim Körber. Edition Phantasia, Bellheim 1995, ISBN 3-924959-27-7 .
  • Humpty Dumpty in Oakland . Written in 1960. Published posthumously by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 1986, ISBN 0-575-03875-6 .
  • Mary and the Giant . Written 1953/55. Published posthumously by Arbor House, Westminster, Maryland 1987, ISBN 0-87795-850-5 .
    German edition: Mary and the giant . Translated by Joachim Körber. Edition Phantasia, Bellheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-924959-80-7 .
  • The Broken Bubble . Written 1956. Published posthumously by Arbor House, Westminster, Maryland 1988, ISBN 1-55710-012-8 .
    German edition: "The broken ball". Translated by Britta Stabenow. Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-251-00216-3 .
  • Nick and the Glimmings . Written in 1966. Published posthumously by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London 1988, ISBN 0-575-04307-5 .
    German edition: "Nick und der Glimmung." Translated by Joachim Körber with illustrations by LGX Lillian Mousli. Edition Phantasia, Bellheim 2000, ISBN 3-924959-54-4 .
  • Gather Yourselves Together . Written in 1950. Published posthumously by WCS Books, o. O. 1994, ISBN 1-878914-05-7 .
  • Voices from the Street . Written in 1952. Published posthumously by Tor Books, New York City 2007, ISBN 978-0-7653-1692-9 .
    German edition: Voices of the street . Liebeskind Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-935890-72-4 .

Short stories

The short stories are arranged here according to the date they were first published. The German titles follow the edition All stories in 10 volumes , Haffmans 1993–2001, for which all short stories have been newly translated.

In Haffmans Verlag in sales of Zweitausendeins 2008 published All 118 SF stories in a cassette with five volumes ( ISBN 978-3-86150-803-8 ), supplemented by a backing band with an autobiographical text Dicks, an essay by editor Heiko Arntz, a comic by Robert Crumb and a small PCD chronicle.

Furthermore, several selected volumes with short stories by Dick have been published: A handful of darkness (Moewig 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3543-2 ), The best stories by Philip K. Dick (Playboy Science Fiction 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6712-1 ) , A trace of madness ( Luchterhand collection 1986, ISBN 3-472-61603-2 ), Cosmic dolls and other forms of life (Heyne 1986, ISBN 3-453-31321-6 ), The golden man (Moewig 1987, ISBN 3-8118- 3759-1 ) and The Impossible Planet (Heyne 2002, ISBN 3-453-21731-4 ).

1952

  • Beyond Lies the Wub. - And beyond - the wobb (first published in: Planet Stories , July 1952)
  • The gun. - The cannon (first published in: Planet Stories , September 1952)
  • The Skull - The skull (First published in: If , Sept. 1952)
  • The Little Movement. - The little movement (first published in: Fantasy & Science Fiction , November 1952)

1953

  • The Defenders. - The Defenders (first published in: Galaxy , January 1953)
  • Mr. Spaceship - Mr. Raumschiff (First published in: Imagination , January 1953)
  • Piper in the Woods. - Pfeifer im Wald (first published in: Imagination , February 1953)
  • Roog. - Roog (written November 1951; first published in: Fantasy & Science Fiction , February 1953)
  • The Infinites. - The Infinite (first published in: Planet Stories , May 1953)
  • Second variety. - Variation two ( film adaptation as screamers )
  • The World She Wanted. - The world she wanted
  • Colony. - Kolonie (written on August 11, 1952; first published in: Galaxy , June 1953)
  • The Cookie Lady. - The cookie woman
  • Impostor. - Impostor. (Film adaptation as impostor )
  • Paycheck. - Payday (written on July 31, 1952; first published in: Imagination , June 1953; film adaptation as Paycheck - Die Abrechnung )
  • The Preserving Machine. - The Preservation Machine (first published in: Fantasy & Science Fiction , June 1953)
  • The Cosmic Poachers. - The cosmic poachers
  • Expendable./ He Who Waits « - dispensable (first published in: Fantasy & Science Fiction , July 1953)
  • The Indefatigable Frog. - The Tireless Frog (First published in: Fantastic Story Magazine , July 1953)
  • The Variable Man. - The variable man (first published in: Space Science Fiction , July 1953)
  • Out in the garden. - Out in the garden (written on July 31, 1952; first published in: Fantasy Fiction , August 1953)
  • The Commuter. - The commuter
  • The Great C. - The Big C (written on July 31, 1952 First published in: Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy , Sept. 1953)
  • The King of the Elves./Shadrach Jones and the Elves « - The King of the Elves (written on August 4, 1952; first published in: Beyound Fantasy Fiction , September 1953)
  • The trouble with bubbles. - The trouble with the bullets
  • The Impossible Planet. - The impossible planet
  • Planet for Transients. - Planet for travelers
  • Some Kinds of Life. - Certain forms of life
  • The Hanging Stranger - The hanged man
  • Project: Earth. - Project: Earth
  • The Builder. - The builder (written on July 23, 1952; first published in: Amazing , December 1953 / January 1954)
  • The Eyes Have It! - eyes open!
  • Tony and the Beetles. - Tony and the bugs

1954

  • Beyond the Door. - Beyond the door
  • The Crystal Crypt. - The Crystal Crypt (first published in: Planet Stories , January 1954)
  • A Present for Pat. - A present for Pat
  • The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford. - The short happy life of the brown shoe (first published in: Fantasy & Science Fiction , January 1954)
  • The Golden Man. - The golden man (film adaptation as Next )
  • James P. Crow - James P. Crow
  • Prominent Author. - Prominent author
  • Small town. - Small town
  • Survey team. - Survey team
  • Sales pitch. - One surefire way
  • Breakfast at Twilight. - Breakfast in the twilight
  • Martians Come in Clouds. - Martians come in clouds
  • The Crawlers. - The crawlers
  • Of Withered Apples. - From withered apples
  • Exhibit piece. - exhibit
  • Shell Game. - confusion
  • Adjustment team. - Changeover team. (Film adaptation as Der Plan )
  • Meddler. - Intruder (written on July 24, 1952; first published in: Future , October 1954)
  • Souvenir. - souvenir
  • A world of talent. - A universal talent
  • Progeny. - offspring
  • Upon the Dull Earth. - And peace on earth
  • The Last of the Masters. - The last master
  • Prize Ship./»Globe from Ganymede " - booty (written on August 14, 1952 First published in: Thrilling Wonder Stories , Winter 1954)
  • The Father Thing. - The father thing
  • Strange Eden. - Foreign paradise
  • The Turning Wheel. - The rotation of the wheel
  • Jon's World - Jons world

1955

  • Foster, You're Dead - Foster, you're dead
  • Was a veteran. - War veteran
  • Nanny. - Nanny (written on August 26, 1952; first published in: Startling Stories , spring 1955)
  • Captive Market. - Delivery monopoly
  • The Hood Maker. - The hood maker
  • The Chromium Fence. - Between the chairs
  • Service call. - Customer service
  • A surface raid. - A raid on the surface
  • The Mold of Yancy. - Following Yancy's example
  • Autofac. - Auto technician. or war of automatons
  • Psi-Man Heal My Child! - Psi-human, heal my child!
  • Human is… - is human

1956

  • The Minority Report. - The minority report (film adaptation as minority report )
  • To serve the master. - At the master's service
  • Pay for the printer. - Everything has its price

1957

  • The Unreconstructed M. - The incorrigible M.
  • Misadjustment. - misadjustment

1958

  • Zero-O. - Zero-O

1959

  • Fair game. - Fair game
  • Recall Mechanism. - reminder mechanism
  • Explorers We. - We are explorers
  • War game. - war game

1963

  • Stand-by. - Always ready
  • What'll We Do With Ragland Park? - What are we doing with Ragland Park?
  • The Days of Perky Pat. - At the time of Perky Pat
  • If There Were No Benny Cemoli. - If it wasn't for Benny Cemoli

1964

  • Waterspider. - water spider
  • Novelty Act. - Weird number
  • Oh, to be a blobbel. - Oh, it's hard as a blobbel
  • The War with the Fnools. - The war with the Fnools
  • What The Dead Men Say. - What the dead say
  • A Game of Unchance. - Bad luck
  • The Little Black Box. - The little black box
  • Precious Artefact. - A priceless artifact
  • Orpheus With Clay Feet. - Orpheus with horse's foot (published around 1964 in Escape under the pseudonym "Jack Dowland" ; in the short story a character with this name appears self-referential and the name Philip K. Dick again as a pseudonym)

1965

  • Retreat Syndrome. - guilt complex

1966

  • We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. - memories in bulk (film adaptation as total recall )
  • Holy Quarrel. - Holy zeal
  • Your Appointment will be Yesterday. - You have an appointment yesterday

1967

  • Return match. - second leg
  • Faith of Our Fathers. - Faith of our fathers

1968

  • Not by its cover. - Objection by cover
  • The Story to End All Stories. - The final and very last story

1969

  • The Electric Ant. - The electric ant

1974

  • The Pre-Persons. - The pre-persons
  • A Little Something for Us Tempunauts. - A little consolation for us temponauts

1979

  • The Exit Door Leads in. - The exit leads in

1980

  • Rautavaara's Case - The Rautavaara case
  • I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon. - I hope I'll be there soon
  • Chains of Air, Web of Aethyr. - Aether chains, webs of air

1981

  • The Alien Mind. - An extraterrestrial intelligence

Published posthumously:
1984

  • Strange Memories of Death. - Strange memories of death

1987

  • Stability. - stability (written in 1947 or earlier)
  • A Terran Odyssey. - Terran Odyssey (based on the novel After the Bomb )
  • Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked. - Cadbury, the missed beaver
  • The Eye of the Sibyl. - The Sibyl's Eye
  • The Day Mr. Computer Fell out of its Tree - The day Mr. Computer the cups fell out of the closet
  • Fawn, look back

1988

  • Goodbye, Vincent

1989

  • 11-17-80

1992

  • The Name of the Game is Death

Film adaptations

The following films are based on novels or short stories by Dick:

A sequel with the same title as a television series (1 season with 10 episodes of about 45 minutes) was released in 2015.

The following film is about Dick's last days, the character is called William J. Frick.

documentary

  • Philip K. Dick and how he saw the world. (OT: Les mondes de Philip K. Dick. ) Documentary, France, 2015, 56 min., Book: Yann Coquart and Ariel Kyrou, director: Yann Coquart, production: Nova Production, arte France, first broadcast: March 2, 2016 at arte, summary of arte. ( Memento of March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).

Radio plays

Pop Culture

Tessa Dick, the author's last wife, mentioned in a 2016 interview with Der Spiegel that John Lennon called her husband in the 1970s and told him that the Beatles had written their song Paperback Writer in his honor .

literature

  • Uwe Anton : Philip K. Dick. Entropy and hope. Tilsner, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-910079-01-6 .
  • Uwe Anton: The strange worlds of Philip K. Dick. Corian-Verlag, Meitingen 1984, ISBN 3-89048-207-4 .
  • Emmanuel Carrère : Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-02-020173-9 .
    • English by Timothy Bert: I m Alive and You Are Dead. A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick . Picador, New York City, USA 2005, ISBN 0-312-42451-5 .
  • Philip K. Dick: "... if our world is your heaven?": Last conversations. Edition Phantasia, Bellheim 2006, ISBN 3-924959-72-2 .
  • Kim Stanley Robinson : The novels of Philip K. Dick. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1984, ISBN 0-8357-1589-2 (Zugl. San Diego University Press 1982). German edition: The novels of Philip K. Dick. Shayol, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-926126-51-5 .
  • Norman Spinrad : The Metamorphosis of Philip K. Dick. In: Hannes Riffel, Jakob Schmidt (Ed.): Pandora. Science fiction and fantasy. Vol. 4, Shayol Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-926126-82-5 , pp. 220-231.
  • Lawrence Sutin: Philip K. Dick. Divine raids. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt a. M. 1994, ISBN 3-627-10236-3 .
  • Paul Williams: Only Apparently Real. The World of Philip K. Dick. Arbor House, New York 1986, ISBN 0-87795-800-9 . German edition: The true stories of Philip K. Dick or the three stigmata of Moby K. Dick or the five break-ins of Doctor Dick. Pieper's MedienXperimente, Löhrbach 1994, ISBN 3-925817-68-9 (The Green Branch; Vol. 168)
Lexicons

Web links

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About Philip K. Dick

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawrence Sutin: Philip K. Dick 1928 - 1982. ( Memento of May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: philipkdick.com , 2003 (English).
  2. ↑ Bruce Gillespie: The Non-Science Fiction Novels of Philip K. Dick (1928-82). ( Memento from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: brg , No. October 1, 1990.
  3. ^ Philip K. Dick's Tall Tales. In: thesmokinggun.com , February 8, 1999, Dick's letter to the FBI.
  4. ↑ Lawrence Sutin: Philip K. Dick. Divine raids. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt a. M. 1994, ISBN 3-627-10236-3 .
  5. ↑ Christian Gaca: The Life of Philip Kindred Dick. In: philipkdick.de , March 2002.
  6. ↑ Philip K. Dick. In: science fiction awards database. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ biogram. In: Philip K. Dick: And beyond - the wobb. All SF stories. From the American by Walter Grossbein, Volume 1, Haffmans Verlag bei Zweausendeins, 3rd edition, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86150-808-3 , p. 640.
  8. ↑ Josh Jones: Philip K. Dick Theorizes The Matrix in 1977, Declares That We Live in “A Computer-Programmed Reality” , openculture.com, February 3, 2014, accessed November 23, 2018.
  9. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Review of: The oracle from the mountains. In: buecherwahn.ch .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buecherwahn.ch
  10. ↑ Review of: Ubik. In: revsomol.de .
  11. ↑ Review of: The Three Stigmata of the Palmer Eldritch. (Archive) In: x-zine.de , 2002.
  12. ↑ Review by Michael Matzer on: Mozart for Martians. In: rezensions.literaturwelt.de .
  13. ↑ cf. also the review by Simon Croll on: Minority Report. In: scireview.de / le buchfink , January 2003.
  14. ↑ Dick himself noted that he only read an article by Aldous Huxley as a template for his "classic LSD novel" The Tree Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) , but had no access to LSD: Interview with Dick (1979) , here from minute 49:30 to 50:00.
  15. ↑ Review of: Martian Time Fall. (Archive) In: x-zine.de , 2002.
  16. ^ "Philip K. Dick. Das Vater-Ding », review note on Die Tageszeitung, July 21, 2000. In: Perlentaucher , July 21, 2000.
  17. ↑ See Kolja Mensing : Milieu study of the American middle class. In: Deutschlandradio , September 18, 2009, review of On the Road in a Small Country .
  18. ↑ Micha Wischniewski: Beyond the bourgeois facade. In “Time Out of Joint” Philip K. Dick analyzes the USA of the 1950s. In: literaturkritik.de , No. 2, February 1, 2005.
  19. ↑ Michael Nagula in: Philip K. Dick: Eine Spur Wahnsinn , Luchterhand 1986, ISBN 3-472-61603-2 .
  20. ↑ Philip K. Dick, Self Portrait , 1968, ( The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick , 1995).
  21. ↑ Daniel DePerez: An Interview with Philip K. Dick. ( Memento of December 12, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) In: Science Fiction Review , September 10, 1976, No. 19, vol. 5.
  22. ↑ Wolfgang Tischer: Far from the future: The novel "On the way in a small country" by Philip K. Dick. In: literaturcafe.de , February 26, 2010.
  23. ↑ Frank Schäfer: The nervous pull of the hippies. Liberalization. "On the way in a small country", a realistic novel by the famous science fiction author Philip K. Dick, for the first time in German. In: the daily newspaper , January 16, 2010.
  24. ↑ Elmar Schenkel: Floorboards of the universe. Parzival's rampage: Philip K. Dick's early work. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 26, 2010, p. 26.
  25. ↑ Martin Spieß: Science fiction trash caught up in time. “All 118 Science Fiction Stories” have now been published in five volumes. In: Berliner Literaturkritik , October 31, 2008.
  26. ↑ Rolf Löchel: Maybe I'm crazy. Great god. Well Philip K. Dick's science fiction stories are no longer entirely fresh. In: literaturkritik.de , No. 4, April 2008.
  27. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m remarks and notes. In: Philip K. Dick: And beyond - the wobb. All SF stories. From the American by Walter Grossbein, Volume 1, Haffmans Verlag bei Zweausendeins, 3rd edition, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86150-808-3 , pp. 631–639, here p. 637.
  28. ↑ a b Follow-up and notes. In: Philip K. Dick: And beyond - the wobb. All SF stories. From the American by Walter Grossbein, Volume 1, Haffmans Verlag bei Zweausendeins, 3rd edition, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86150-808-3 , pp. 631–639, here p. 633.
  29. ↑ a b c d references and notes. In: Philip K. Dick: And beyond - the wobb. All SF stories. From the American by Walter Grossbein, Volume 1, Haffmans Verlag bei Zweausendeins, 3rd edition, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86150-808-3 , pp. 631–639, here p. 639.
  30. ↑ a b c d e f notes and notes. In: Philip K. Dick: And beyond - the wobb. All SF stories. From the American by Walter Grossbein, Volume 1, Haffmans Verlag bei Zweausendeins, 3rd edition, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-86150-808-3 , pp. 631–639, here p. 638
  31. ↑ See note in All 118 SF-Stories , Haffmans Verlag bei Zweausendeins , Vol. 4 ( At the time of Perky Pat ), p. 620.
  32. ↑ Feature film Blade Runner (1982) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  33. ↑ Feature film Total Recall (1990) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  34. ↑ feature film Confessions d'un Barjo (1992) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  35. ↑ Feature film Screamers - Tödliche Schreie (1995) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  36. ↑ Feature film Minority Report (2002) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  37. ↑ Feature film Impostor (2001) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  38. ↑ Feature film Paycheck - Die Abrechnung (2003) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  39. ↑ Feature film A Scanner Darkly - The Dark Screen (2006) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  40. ↑ Feature film Next (2007) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  41. ↑ Feature film Radio Free Albemuth (2010) in the Internet Movie Database (English) and the film page of Radio Free Albemuth.
  42. ↑ Feature film Der Plan (2011) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  43. ↑ Feature film Total Recall (2012) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  44. ↑ Feature film Your Name Here (2008) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  45. ^ Frank Thadeusz: Utopia. Our universe is not real. In: Der Spiegel , February 23, 2016, No. 4, p. 110, interview with Tessa Dick.
personal data
SURNAME Dick, Philip K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dick, Philip Kindred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1982
Place of death Santa Ana , California