Philip K. Dick bibliography

Some books by and about Philip K. Dick

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. [1]

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.[2] To date, a total of 44 novels have been published and translations have appeared in 25 languages.[3] 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.[4][5] 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.[6]

Recurring themes in Dick's work

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Five recurring philosophical themes in Dick's work have been classified by Philip K. Dick scholar Erik Davis:[7]

Similarly, in Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl Link discussed eight themes or 'ideas and motifs':[8][9]

  • 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

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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

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Dick's novel The Cosmic Puppets originally appeared in the December 1956 issue of Satellite Science Fiction as "A Glass of Darkness"
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;[10]
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; first published as All We Marsmen as a serial in Worlds of Tomorrow issues for August, October and December 1963.
1963 Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb 1965 Nebula Award nominee, 1965;[11] LOA2
1963 The Game-Players of Titan 1963
1963 The Simulacra 1964
1963 The Crack in Space 1966 as Cantata-140 (1966)
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;[11]
LOA1
1964 The Zap Gun 1967 First published as Project Plowshare as a serial in Worlds of Tomorrow issues for November 1965 and January 1966.
1964 The Penultimate Truth 1964
1964 Deus Irae 1976 with Roger Zelazny *+
1964 The Unteleported Man 1966 as Lies, Inc. (1984) *+
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;[12]
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;[13]
John W. Campbell Award winner, 1975;[14]
Hugo Award nominee, 1975;[14]
Locus Award nominee, 1975;[14]
LOA2 *
1973 A Scanner Darkly 1977 British Science Fiction Award winner, 1978;[15]
John W. Campbell Award nominee, 1978;[15]
LOA2 *
1976 Radio Free Albemuth 1985
1978 VALIS 1981 LOA3
1980 The Divine Invasion 1981 British Science Fiction Award nominee, 1982;[16]
LOA3
1981 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer 1982 Nebula Award nominee, 1982;[16]
Locus Award nominee, 1983;[17]
LOA3
1982 The Owl in Daylight Unfinished

Library of America

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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

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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

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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 (1987) Beyond Lies the Wub (1988) The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990) The King of the Elves (2010)
"Menace React" added
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 2 (1987) Second Variety (1989) We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990)
"Second Variety" removed
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" added
Adjustment Team (2011)

Contents reverted to original contents of Second Variety (1989)

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 3 (1987) The Father-Thing (1989) Second Variety (1991)
"Second Variety" added
Upon the Dull Earth (2012)

Contents reverted to original contents of The Father-Thing (1989)

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4 (1987) The Days of Perky Pat (1990) The Minority Report (1991) The Minority Report (2013)
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 5 (1987) The Little Black Box (1990) The Eye of the Sibyl (1992)
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" removed
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (2014)
"Goodbye Vincent" added, "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" added back

Short stories

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1952
"Beyond Lies the Wub"
"The Gun"
"The Little Movement"
"The Skull"
1953
Dick's novelette "The Defenders" was the cover story for the January 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller
Dick's short story "The World She Wanted" took the cover of the May 1953 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly
1954
1955
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
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

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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

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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

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Correspondence

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Film adaptations

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# Film Date Director Source
work
Date Type TV Series
or Sequel
Date
1 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 Novel Sequel: Blade Runner 2049 2017
2 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" 1966 Short story TV series: Total Recall 2070[27] 1999
3 Confessions d'un Barjo 1992 Jérôme Boivin Confessions of a Crap Artist 1975 Novel
4 Screamers 1995 Christian Duguay "Second Variety" 1953 Short story Sequel: Screamers: The Hunting 2009
5 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg "The Minority Report" 1956 Short story TV series: Minority Report 2015
6 Impostor 2002 Gary Fleder "Impostor" 1953 Short story Episode of TV series: Out of This World, adapted by Terry Nation 1962
7 Paycheck 2003 John Woo "Paycheck" 1953 Short story
8 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Richard Linklater A Scanner Darkly 1977 Novel
9 Next 2007 Lee Tamahori "The Golden Man" 1953 Short story
10 Radio Free Albemuth 2010 John Alan Simon Radio Free Albemuth 1976 Novel
11 The Adjustment Bureau 2011 George Nolfi "Adjustment Team" 1954 Short story
12 Total Recall 2012 Len Wiseman "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" 1966 Short story TV series: Total Recall 2070[27] 1999
13 "The Man in the High Castle" 1962 Novel TV series: The Man in the High Castle 2015
14 01 - The Hood Maker

02 - Impossible Planet

03 - The Commuter

04 - Crazy Diamond

05 - Real Life

06 - Human Is

07 - The Father Thing

08 - Autofac

09 - Safe and Sound

10 - Kill All Others

"The Hood Maker"
"The Impossible Planet"
"The Commuter"
"Sales Pitch"
"Exhibit Piece"
"Human Is"
"The Father-thing"
"Autofac"
"Foster, You're Dead!"
"The Hanging Stranger"
1955
1953
1953
1954
1954
1955
1954
1955
1955
1953
Short stories TV series: Electric Dreams 2017–2018

Further reading

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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

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Interviews

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  • 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

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  • 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. [Enlarged edition] 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

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  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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c "1975 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
  15. ^ a b "1978 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
  16. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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.
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