Dick, Philip K.
Dick, Philip K. (1928–82),American science fiction and fantasy writer. Born in Chicago, Dick studied briefly at the University of California in Berkeley, where he also worked for a radio station and managed a record store while publishing science fiction stories. After 1955, with the publication of his novels Solar Lottery and A Handful of Darkness, he established himself as one of the leading writers of science fiction and fantasy in America. Among his best‐known works are Eye in the Sky (1957), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), The Preserving Machine and Other Stories (1969), and A Scanner Darkly (1977). He introduced fairy‐tale motifs into many of his works, and in some of his stories like ‘The King of the Elves’ (1953), he incorporated traditional fairy‐tale characters into a realistic narrative about the owner of a gas station in the desert who is strangely called upon to...
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