ABSTRACT
Having transformed from a relatively marginal writer who, early in his career, was ashamed to say he wrote science fi ction, Philip K. Dick today is a literary fi gure of signifi cant importance to artists, fi lmmakers, academics, scientists, and a vast readership. Dick’s forty-fi ve published novels have been translated into twenty-fi ve languages, while in the United States, an almost complete series of novels and stories have remained in print since his death in 1982. In 2007, the Library of America recognized Dick’s achievement by bringing out four of his novels in a volume edited by the American novelist Jonathan Lethem, a leading member of the current generation of writers and a longtime fan. In addition to the nine movies, three biographies, and several bibliographies, twelve major scholarly works have been published, together with hundreds of articles and interviews, a memoir by Dick’s wife Anne Dick, and a special issue of Science Fiction Studies (devoted exclusively to Dick and Ursula LeGuin, a fellow science fi ction great and Dick’s friend).
