Androids test
What did the death of Jane influence in Dick's writing?
motif of phantom twins and doubles
What did Dick die from?
2 strokes
How many kids did Dick have?
3
how many novels and short stories did Dick write
44 and 121
How many times was Dick married?
5
When did Jane die?
6 weeks old
from the novel A Scanner Darkly (2006)
A Scanner Darkly
Who also did Dick say his mind was possessed by?
Biblical prophet Elijah
Where was Phillip K. Dick born?
Chicago on December 16, 1928
When did Dick die?
February 17, 1982
Who is Dick's twin sister?
Jane Charlotte Dick
"He had an indistinct, glimpsed darkly impression: of something merciless that carried a printed list and a gun, that moved machine-like through the flat, bureaucratic job of killing. A thing without emotions, or even a face; a thing that if killed got replaced immediately by another resembling it. And so on, until everyone real and alive had been shot" (146).
John Isidore
"In the absence of the Batys and Pris he found himself fading out, becoming strangely like the inert television set which he had just unplugged. You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean, before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it's changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to non people" (188).
John Isidore
"Maybe Buster is jealous...Sure, that would explain it; he and Wilbur Mercer are in competition. But for what? Our minds...They're fighting for control of our psychic selves; the empathy box on one hand, Buster's guffaws and off-the-cuff jibes on the other" (70).
John Isidore
From short story "The Minority Report"
Minority report
From short story "Paycheck"
Paycheck
Why did Dick drop out of Berkley?
ROTC and anxiety
What was his autobiographical bio?
Radio Free Albemuth
"This rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die, eventually the last score of the music will be destroyed in one way or another; finally the name 'Mozart' will vanish, the dust will have won. If not on this planet then another. We can evade it for awhile. As the andys can evade me and exist a finite stretch longer. But I get them or some other bounty hunter gets them. In a way...I'm part of the form-destroying process of entropy. The Rosen Association creates and I unmake" (98).
Rick
who was thomas?
a persecuted christian
elements of Toy Story (1995) were inspired by the short story
The Little Movement
From short story "Adjustment Team"
The adjustment bureau
From the novel The Man in the High Castle
The man in the high castle
What won the Hugo Award
The man in the high castle
Two of dicks most notable works
The man in the high castle and Ubik
who were Dicks two lives?
Thomas and Philip
From the short story "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale"
Total recall
What was selected by TIME magazine as one of the "ALL-TIME 100 Greatest novels"
Ubik
Where did Dick briefly attend?
University of California, Berkeley
Where did he develop ideas about metaphysics and perceptive reality?
University of California, Berkeley
What was caused due to the result of his mind being invaded by "a transcendentally rational mind"
hallucinations
What was confiscated by the IRS because he refused to pay federal taxes as a protest against the Vietnam War?
his car
From short story "Impostor"
imposter
"Do androids dream? ...Evidently; that's why they occasionally kill their employers and flee here. A better life, without servitude. Like Luba Luft; singing Don Giovanni and Le Nozze instead of toiling across the face of a barren rock-strewn field. On a fundamentally uninhabitable colony world" (169)
narrator
"He thought, too, about his need for a real animal; within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist. Like the androids, it had no ability to appreciate the existence of another. He had never thought of this before, the similarity between an electric animal and an andy. The electric animal, he pondered, could be considered a subform of the other, a kind of vastly inferior robot. Or, conversely, the android could be regarded as a highly developed, evolved version of the ersatz animal. Both viewpoints repelled him" (42).
narrator
From short story "The Golden Man"
next
"'I'll be okay.' He shook his head, as if trying to clear it, still bewildered. 'The spider Mercer gave the chickenhead, Isidore; it probably was artificial, too. But it doesn't matter. The electric things have their lives, too. Paltry as those lives are" (222).
rick
"Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve" (29)
rick
from the short story "Second Variety"
screamers