PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction * Sunday Times * A fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form the expression of his ideas -- The Independent One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction. Philip K. Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem naval gazers in a cul-de-sac -- Sunday Times Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise -- Michael Moorcock No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He stamped himself no only on our memories but in our imaginations -- Brian Aldiss
