Literature Library author

Philip K. Dick

A concise guide to Philip K. Dick's body of work, major titles, and recurring themes.

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Science-fiction novel
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Author overview

Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose body of work spans science-fiction novel. This writing is associated with United States. Major works and useful reading starting points include VALIS trilogy, Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb, A Scanner Darkly, and Eye in the Sky. Key themes include Empathy as test, action, and institution, Animals, care, and commodity status, Authentic and manufactured experience, and Classification and exclusion.

Reading pathway

Begin with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

Representative starting points

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In a radioactive future where animals, emotions, memories, and humanlike workers can be manufactured or purchased, a bounty hunter's empathy test becomes less reliable with every target.

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