The MAN Behnind the ANdroids Phillip K. Dick The MAN Behnind the ANdroids

The Simple Stuff… Date of Birth 16 December 1928, Chicago, Illinois, USA Date of Death 2 March 1982, Santa Ana, California, USA (heart failure) Birth Name Philip Kindred Dick

His Life and his works… His parents split during his childhood and he moved to Berkeley, California where he lived most of his life He became a published author in 1955 His first short story "Roog.“ and his first novel, Solar Lottery appeared in 1955

More on him and somewhat chaotic his life… His most productive years were the 1950’s and ‘60’s where he produced early a hundred short stories and some two dozen or so novels including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Time Out Of Joint, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, and the Hugo-award winning The Man In The High Castle. He was married five times! His career was sidetracked in the early 1970’s by drug experimentation Dick returned to action in 1974 with the Campbell award-winning novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

That Same Year…1974… Dick would have a intense religious experience that would forever alter his life. Dick's final years were haunted by what he alleged to be a 1974 visitation from God, or at least a God-like being Dick spent the rest of his life writing copious journals regarding the visitation and his interpretations of the event. At times, Dick seemed to regard it as a divine revelation and, at other times, he believed it to be a sign of extreme schizophrenic behavior

His Last Years… His final novels deal with the entity he supposedly saw especially in Valis in which the title- character is an extraterrestrial God-like machine that chooses to make contact with a hopelessly schizophrenic, possibly drug-addled and decidedly mixed-up science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick Much of his life he lived pay check to pay check He never was quite financially sound until the end of his life partly due to the money he received from the producers of Blade Runner (1982) for the rights to his novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" upon which the film was based Shortly before the film premiered, however, he died of a heart attack at the age of 53 Since his death, several other films have been adapted from his works Total Recall (1990), Impostor (2001), and Minority Report (2002). Others that have borrowed ideas from his works include HBO’s Westworld (2016), Ex Machina (2015), I, Robot (2004)

Interesting Personal Quotes… “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” “Sometimes to go insane is an appropriate response to the World.” “The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.” “There should be a Clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.” “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

Here it is…Sci-Fi coming to life again… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_DPi0PmF0