Publication Order of VALIS Trilogy Books
| VALIS | 1981 |
| The Divine Invasion | 1981 |
| The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | 1982 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Solar Lottery / World of Chance | 1955 |
| The World Jones Made | 1956 |
| The Man Who Japed | 1956 |
| Eye in the Sky | 1957 |
| The Cosmic Puppets | 1957 |
| Time Out of Joint | 1959 |
| Dr. Futurity | 1960 |
| Vulcan’s Hammer | 1960 |
| The Man in the High Castle | 1962 |
| The Game-Players of Titan | 1963 |
| Martian Time-Slip | 1964 |
| The Simulacra | 1964 |
| The Penultimate Truth | 1964 |
| Clans of the Alphane Moon | 1964 |
| The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | 1965 |
| Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb | 1965 |
| Now Wait for Last Year | 1966 |
| The Crack in Space | 1966 |
| The Unteleported Man / Lies, Inc. | 1966 |
| The Zap Gun | 1967 |
| Counter-Clock World | 1967 |
| The Ganymede Takeover (With: Ray Nelson) | 1967 |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Blade Runner | 1968 |
| Ubik | 1969 |
| Galactic Pot-Healer | 1969 |
| A Maze of Death | 1970 |
| Our Friends from Frolix 8 | 1970 |
| We Can Build You | 1972 |
| Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | 1974 |
| Confessions of a Crap Artist | 1975 |
| Deus Irae (With: Roger Zelazny) | 1976 |
| A Scanner Darkly | 1977 |
| The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike | 1984 |
| Radio Free Albemuth | 1985 |
| Puttering About in a Small Land | 1985 |
| In Milton Lumky Territory | 1985 |
| Humpty Dumpty in Oakland | 1986 |
| Mary and the Giant | 1987 |
| The Broken Bubble | 1988 |
| Gather Yourselves Together | 1994 |
| Voices from the Street | 2007 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| A Handful of Darkness | 1955 |
| The Variable Man and Other Stories | 1957 |
| The Preserving Machine | 1969 |
| The Book of Philip K. Dick / The Turning Wheel and Other Stories | 1973 |
| The Best of Philip K. Dick | 1977 |
| The Golden Man | 1980 |
| Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities | 1984 |
| I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon | 1985 |
| The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (Five Volumes) | 1987 |
| The Philip K. Dick Reader | 1997 |
| Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick | 2002 |
Publication Order of Children’s Books
| Nick and the Glimmung | 1988 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Dark-Haired Girl | 1988 |
| The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings | 1995 |
| The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick | 2011 |
About Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick (1928 to 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer whose work questions the nature of reality, identity and what it means to be human. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, including “The Man in the High Castle”, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and “Ubik”.
Dick was born in Chicago on 16 December 1928 with a twin sister, Jane, who died six weeks later. The family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, and after his parents divorced he was raised by his mother, spending part of his childhood in Washington, D.C. He attended Berkeley High School, briefly studied at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1949, and worked in a record shop on Telegraph Avenue from 1948 to 1952.
He sold his first story, “Roog”, in 1951 and wrote full time from then on. His first novel, “Solar Lottery”, was published in 1955 as half of an Ace Double. During the 1950s he also wrote a run of realist novels that found no publisher at the time; “Confessions of a Crap Artist” appeared in 1975 and most of the others only after his death.
Recognition came with “The Man in the High Castle” (1962), an alternative history novel that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. A productive decade followed, with “Martian Time-Slip”, “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (1968) and “Ubik” (1969). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said” (1974) won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
After years of drug use and a series of mystical experiences in 1974, his fiction turned more openly to theology and metaphysics in “A Scanner Darkly” (1977), “VALIS” (1981) and “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer” (1982). A collection of his speculative non-fiction on these themes was published in 2011 as “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”. He died in Santa Ana, California, on 2 March 1982, aged 53, after a stroke.
“Blade Runner”, the first film based on his work, was released that same year. Later adaptations include “Total Recall”, “Minority Report”, “A Scanner Darkly” and “The Adjustment Bureau”, along with the television series “The Man in the High Castle” and “Electric Dreams”. In 2007 he became the first science fiction writer to be included in the Library of America.
Photo: Arthur Knight, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).