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Also Known As Philip Kindred Dick
Born December 16, 1928 • Chicago • Illinois
Died March 2, 1982 (aged 53) • Santa Ana • California
Awards And Honors Hugo Award (1962)
Notable Works “A Handful of Darkness” • “A Scanner Darkly” • “Beyond Lies the Wub” • “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” • “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon” • “Solar Lottery” • “The Man in the High Castle” • “The Preserving Machine” • “The Simulacra” • “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” • “The Variable Man and Other Stories” • “Time out of Joint” • “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”
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