Philip K. Dick
Philip K.
Dick was an American science fiction writer (1928–1982) known for novels and stories exploring reality, identity, and perception.
His work often featured ordinary people confronting unstable realities, corporate dystopias, and questions about what makes someone human.
Many of his stories became films: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly.
Often referenced simply as PKD.
Writer of prose narratives
- writerCreator of texts
- science fictionSpeculative fiction with technological themes
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
publishing · A Scanner Darkly · literary · narrative · prose · counterculture · Berkeley · California
Bioengineered human duplicate
- Blade RunnerOne who retires replicants
- empathySharing another's emotions
- humanityPeople as a whole
- artificialMade, not natural
synthetic · electric sheep · Nexus · consciousness · soul · Rachel · identity · machine
Imitative stand-in for reality
- simulationImitation of real processes
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
delusion · counterfeit · authentic · fake · genuine · Baudrillard · Gnosticism · demiurge
Clandestine coordinated scheming
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- governmentAuthority over a state
- Nixon37th U.S. president
- FBIU.S. domestic intelligence agency
break-in · distrust · persecution · suspicion · schizophrenia · anxiety · informants · infiltration
German fascist party member
- JapanEast Asian archipelago nation
- AxisWartime fascist alliance
- counterfactualContrary-to-fact supposition
- I ChingChinese divination classic
parallel · divergence · what-if · alternate timeline · history · bifurcation · multiverse
Punishment before the act
- precogsThose gifted with foresight
- futureTime still to come
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
prophecy · prediction · foreknowledge · fate · choice · temporal · oracle · mutants
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- writerCreator of texts
- science fictionSpeculative fiction with technological themes
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
manuscripts · publishing · A Scanner Darkly · literary · narrative · prose · counterculture · Berkeley · California · amphetamines
replicant
Bioengineered human duplicate
- Blade RunnerOne who retires replicants
- empathySharing another's emotions
- humanityPeople as a whole
artificial · synthetic · electric sheep · Nexus · consciousness · soul · Rachel · identity · machine · robot
simulacrum
Imitative stand-in for reality
- simulationImitation of real processes
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
hallucination · delusion · counterfeit · authentic · fake · genuine · Baudrillard · Gnosticism · demiurge · maya
conspiracy
Clandestine coordinated scheming
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- governmentAuthority over a state
- Nixon37th U.S. president
FBI · break-in · distrust · persecution · suspicion · schizophrenia · anxiety · informants · infiltration · Cold War
Nazi
German fascist party member
- JapanEast Asian archipelago nation
- AxisWartime fascist alliance
- counterfactualContrary-to-fact supposition
I Ching · parallel · divergence · what-if · alternate timeline · history · bifurcation · multiverse
precrime
Punishment before the act
- precogsThose gifted with foresight
- futureTime still to come
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
free will · prophecy · prediction · foreknowledge · fate · choice · temporal · oracle · mutants · psychic
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- sci-fiscience fiction, Star Wars, sci-fi, Blade Runner 2049, aliens
- Genre AuthorsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy AuthorsIsaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein
- Alternate Historyalternate history, alternate timeline, alternate timelines, alternate reality, alternate world
- Authors DCharles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois
Philip K. DickJohn Updike
realist fiction · literary realism · Anne Tyler · Saul Bellow · Philip Roth
Philip K. DickJohn Updike
Saul Bellow · Norman Mailer · Gore Vidal · John Grisham · Tom Clancy
Philip K. DickIsaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke · hard science fiction · Tom Clancy · space opera · techno-thriller