Novels

Arranged in order they were written:

  • 1957 The Cosmic Puppets. (1953) --A man stumbles into an alternate reality in his old home town, now the scene of a battle between good and evil in the persons of ancient Babylonian gods.

  • 1955 Solar Lottery. (1954) -- "Intrigue in the future when quiz shows take over politics." Android assassin; esper police.

  • 1956 The World Jones Made. (1954) -- "A man can see a year into the future, and his effect on society is more than mild."

  • 1957 Eye in the Sky. (1955) --" A group of tourists, trapped in an accident, merge minds and experience reality through one another's perspectives."

    1987 Mary and the Giant. (1955)

  • 1955 The Man Who Japed. (1955) -- "An extrapolated society reflecting our current advertising religiosity and lip service to moral standards."

  • 1957 Eye in the Sky. (1955) -- A group of tourists, trapped in an accident, merge minds and experience reality through one another's perspectives.

    The Broken Bubble [of Thisbe Holt] (1956)

    1958 Puttering About a Small Land (1957)


  • 1959 Time Out Of Joint. (1959) -- "The hero finds himself in the middle of a colossal piece of play acting and tries to break out."

    1985 In Milton Lumkey Territory (1958)

  • 1960 Dr. Futurity. (1959) -- "A U.S. doctor of 2000 AD is shanghaied to the far future where he becomes involved with a time-tangle."

    1975 Confessions of a Crap Artist. (1959)

  • 1960 Vulcan's Hammer. (1954; 1960) -- The computer that is running the world gets out of control.

    1984The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike. (1960)

    Humpty Dumpty in Oakland. (1960)

  • 1962 * The Man In The High Castle. Hugo* (1961) -- A man living in an alternate reality when the Germans and Japanese won WWII, writes a book about an alternate reality when they didn't. Extensive use of Taoism and I Ching.

  • 1972 We Can Build You. (1962) -- A man on the road to insanity falls in love with a schizophrenic woman who builds androids (one in the form of Abraham Lincoln) -- what's the difference between a human being, a schizophrenic, and an android?

  • 1964 * Martian Time-Slip. (1962) -- Schizophrenic boy is crazy because his precog abilities give him constant visions of the Tomb World and of native Martians.

  • 1965 * Dr. Bloodmoney: Or, How We Got Along After The Bomb. (1963) -- The fortunes of a quadriplegic TV repairman after a few nuclear accidents have reduced California (and the rest of the world) to a subsistence culture.

  • 1963 The Game-Players Of Titan. (1963) -- Titans attempt and almost succeed in taking over earth; they playa involved, oddly pointless games with humans.

  • 1964 The Simulacra. (1963) -- Complicated inter-twining of various visions of reality; "it includes a telekinetic piano player and the idea of giving super-weapons to Hitler's Germany."

  • 1966 Now Wait For Last Year (1963) -- Power-hungry politician discovers addictive, hallucinogenic drug which causes time travel and starts using it to survive assassinations and other accidents.

  • * Clans Of The Alphane Moon. (1964) -- Survivors of a mental hospital colonize a moon that is visited by a man planning to murder his wife but under the benevolent observation of a telepathic Ganymean slime-mold.

  • 1966 The Crack In Space . (1964) -- "Human deep-freezing and a pleasure satellite run by a two-headed mutant lead to fast action in an election campaign."

  • 1965 * The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch. (1964 ) -- Bored colonists on Mars pass the time chewing Can-D and hallucinating with Perky Pat dolls and layouts until Palmer comes back from Proxima Centuria with Chew-Z, a new drug that actually allows you to re-create your own reality.

  • 1965 The Zap Gun. (1964) -- "An answer to today's armament race turns sour when Earth is found defenseless to aliens."

  • 1964 # The Penultimate Truth. (1964) -- People living underground to avoid WWIII learn that all has been a hoax.

  • 1966 The Unteleported Man. (1964-5) rev. 1983; v.t.# Lies, Inc. rev. 1984. -- In a world dependent upon giant corporations for electronic transport, a man rebels by using a space ship.
  • 1967 Counter-Clock World. (1965) -- "A future projection of the present Black Power movement, set in a banal plot with reverse-time fantasy."

  • 1967 (with Ray Nelson) The Ganymede Takeover. (1966)

  • 1968 * Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?/ Blade Runner. (1966) - In a world depleted of its animal populations, a bounty-hunter begins to have doubts about killing artificial people.

  • 1969 * Ubik. (1966) -- After a violent accident a number of people are kept living as intertials: half-alive but subject to domination by each others' visions of reality.

  • 1969 Galactic Pot-Healer. (1968) -- A small-time ceramics mender is invited to help raise a sunken cathedral off the floor of an ocean on a distant planet.

  • 1970 A Maze Of Death. (1968) -- The computer running a stranded spaceship puts the crew through a series of hallucinatory experiences so they won't get bored or psychotic.

  • 1970 Our Friends From Frolix 8. (1969) -- "New Men" (telepathic, super-intelligent, pre-cogs) vs. "Old Men" (us).

  • 1974 * Flow My Tears, The Policemen Said. (1970; John Campbell Award) --

    A TV personality wakes up one morning in an alternate reality where he doesn't exist.

    The Dark-Haired Girl.

  • 1977 A Scanner Darkly. (1975) -- Semi-autobiographical and not-quite SF exploration of effects of psychedelic and other substance abuse.

  • 1976 (with Roger Zelazny) Deus Irae. (1975) -- Post-atomic holocaust.

  • 1985 Radio Free Albemuth. (1976) -- Original version of Valis; less sf.

  • 1981 Valis. (1978) -- Semi-autobiographical tale of how Horse-Lover Fats is part of the process that leads up to Divine Invasion.

  • 1981 The Divine Invasion. (1980) -- God (Yaweh) comes back to Earth with Mary and another Jesus. PKD's version of Revelations.

  • 1982 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. (1981) -- PKD's version of the events surrounding the death of his friend Bishop Pike (Anglican Bishop of California who became convinced of the reality of the supernatural.)

Short Story Collections

All of Dick's short stories have been collected in chronological order in the five volumes which began publication in 1987. These volumes also collect any written comments Dick made about the purpose or meaning of individual stories.


Non-Fictional Prose

Sutin's anthology of Dick's non-fictional prose, The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick, collects all the major writing. I have listed only pieces not included in Sutin, with the exception of "Man, Android and Machine".