Philip Kindred Dick was born on December 16, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. From the beginning of his career, Philip K. Dick offered his readers stories in which the boundary between reality and appearance is very thin or even reality is anything but certain such as “Eye in the Sky” (1957), “Time Out of Joint” (1959), “The Man in the High Castle” (1962), winner of the Hugo Award, and “The Penultimate Truth” (1964). From this point of view “Ubik” (1969) represents in some ways his peak.

In the early 1980s Philip K. Dick worked on the screenplay for “Blade Runner” but died on March 2, 1982 after a stroke. At his request, he was buried next to his twin sister. After his death his fame grew noticeably with a new wave of reprints of his novels, the publication of some that had remained unpublished when he was alive and the production of movies and TV shows adapted from his works. Dick has become an object of study, also as a precursor of postmodernism, with a reputation that has long gone far beyond the science fiction genre.