Philip K. Dick bibliography
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 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.
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:- 1. False realities
- 2. Human vs. machine
- 3. Entropy
- 4. The nature of God
- 5. Social control
- 1. Epistemology and the Nature of Reality
- 2. Know Thyself
- 3. The Android and the Human
- 4. Entropy and Pot Healing
- 5. The Theodicy Problem
- 6. Warfare and Power Politics
- 7. The Evolved Human
- 8. 'Technology, Media, Drugs and Madness'
Published works
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- indicates subsequent revision or minor expansion
- indicates the volume of the Library of America omnibus
Novels by year of composition
| Year | Title | Published | Notes |
| 1950 | Gather Yourselves Together | 1994 | |
| 1952 | Voices from the Street | 2007 | |
| 1953 | Vulcan's Hammer | 1960 | + |
| 1953 | Dr. Futurity | 1960 | + |
| 1953 | The Cosmic Puppets | 1957 | * |
| 1954 | Solar Lottery | 1955 | * |
| 1954 | Mary and the Giant | 1987 | * |
| 1954 | The World Jones Made | 1956 | |
| 1955 | Eye in the Sky | 1957 | |
| 1955 | The Man Who Japed | 1956 | |
| 1956 | A Time for George Stavros | Manuscript lost | |
| 1956 | Pilgrim on the Hill | Manuscript lost | |
| 1956 | The Broken Bubble | 1988 | |
| 1957 | Puttering About in a Small Land | 1985 | |
| 1958 | Nicholas and the Higs | Manuscript lost | |
| 1958 | Time Out of Joint | 1959 | |
| 1958 | In Milton Lumky Territory | 1985 | |
| 1959 | Confessions of a Crap Artist | 1975 | |
| 1960 | The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike | 1984 | |
| 1960 | Humpty Dumpty in Oakland | 1986 | |
| 1961 | The Man in the High Castle | 1962 | Hugo Award winner, 1963; LOA1 |
| 1962 | We Can Build You | 1972 | First published as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum as a serial in Amazing Stories issues for November 1969 and January 1970. |
| 1962 | Martian Time-Slip | 1964 | LOA2 |
| 1963 | Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb | 1965 | Nebula Award nominee, 1965; LOA2 |
| 1963 | The Game-Players of Titan | 1963 | |
| 1963 | The Simulacra | 1964 | |
| 1963 | The Crack in Space | 1966 | as Cantata-140 |
| 1963 | Now Wait for Last Year | 1966 | LOA2 |
| 1964 | Clans of the Alphane Moon | 1964 | |
| 1964 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | 1965 | Nebula Award nominee, 1965; LOA1 |
| 1964 | The Zap Gun | 1967 | |
| 1964 | The Penultimate Truth | 1964 | |
| 1964 | Deus Irae | 1976 | with Roger Zelazny *+ |
| 1964 | The Unteleported Man | 1966 | as Lies, Inc. *+ |
| 1965 | The Ganymede Takeover | 1967 | with Ray Nelson * |
| 1965 | Counter-Clock World | 1967 | + |
| 1966 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 1968 | Nebula Award nominee, 1968; LOA1 |
| 1966 | Nick and the Glimmung | 1988 | For children |
| 1966 | Ubik | 1969 | LOA1 |
| 1968 | Galactic Pot-Healer | 1969 | |
| 1968 | A Maze of Death | 1970 | LOA3 |
| 1969 | Our Friends from Frolix 8 | 1970 | |
| 1970 | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | 1974 | Nebula Award nominee, 1974; John W. Campbell Award winner, 1975; Hugo Award nominee, 1975; Locus Award nominee, 1975; LOA2 * |
| 1973 | A Scanner Darkly | 1977 | British Science Fiction Award winner, 1978; John W. Campbell Award nominee, 1978; LOA2 * |
| 1976 | Radio Free Albemuth | 1985 | |
| 1978 | VALIS | 1981 | LOA3 |
| 1980 | The Divine Invasion | 1981 | British Science Fiction Award nominee, 1982; LOA3 |
| 1981 | The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | 1982 | Nebula Award nominee, 1982; Locus Award nominee, 1983; LOA3 |
| 1982 | The Owl in Daylight | Unfinished |
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;1957
;1969
;1973
;1977
;1980
;1984
;1985
;1987
;1988
;1989
;1990
;1991
;1992
;1997
;2002
;2004
;2006
;2009
;2013
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-Miller | published by Gollancz | published by Citadel Twilight | published by Subterranean Press |
| The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1 | Beyond Lies the Wub | The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford | The King of the ElvesShort stories;1952;1953 , illustrated by Ed Emshwiller ;1954 ;1955 ;1956 ;1957 ;1958 ;1959 ;1963 ;1964 ;1965 ;1966 ;1967 ;1968 ;1969 ;1974 ;1979 ;1980 ;1981 ;1984 ;1987 ;1988 Other short works;1987;1992 ;2010 Collected non-fiction
Biographies
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