After graduation, he briefly attended the University of California in Berkeley, taking classes in History, Psychology, Philosophy, and Zoology. It was around this time that Dick began to take an active interest in the science fiction genre, reading his first magazine ‘Stirring Science Stories’, at age twelve.ĭick attended High School in Berkeley, California, where he and fellow science fiction author Ursula K.Le Guin were members of the same graduating class (1947) but were unknown to each other at the time. Dick attended Elementary school and then a Quaker school before the family moved back to California. The death of his twin sister, Jane, six weeks after their birth profoundly affected the writer in later life and is said to account for the recurring theme of the ‘phantom twin’ in many of his works.ĭick and his family moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco when he was young, and later on to Washington DC following his parents divorce. Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. The express permission of the publisher in writingīritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataĪ catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Philip K. After his death, many of his stories made the transition to the big screen, with blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report being based on his works. In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote an estimated 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. He sold his first story in 1951 and from that point on he wrote full-time, selling his first novel in 1955. Dick married five times between 19, and had three children. It was around this time that Dick began to take an active interest in the science fiction genre, reading his first magazine 'Stirring Science Stories', at age twelve. Dick and his family moved to the Bay Area of San Francisco when he was young, and later on to Washington DC following his parents divorce. 'The Variable Man' is a novella about a war between the people of the Terran System and that of Proxima Centauri. Dick was originally published in 1953 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
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