Editing Philip K. Dick (section)

===Pen names===
Dick had two professional stories published under the [[Pen name#Western literature|pen names]] Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland. "Some Kinds of Life" was published in October 1953 in ''[[Fantastic Universe]]'' under byline Richard Phillipps, apparently because the magazine had a policy against publishing multiple stories by the same author in the same issue; "Planet for Transients" was published in the same issue under his own name.<ref>Levack, Daniel (1981). ''PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography'', [[Underwood/Miller]], pp. 116, 126 {{ISBN|0-934438-33-1}}</ref>

The short story "[[Orpheus with Clay Feet]]" was published under the pen name Jack Dowland. The protagonist desires to be the [[muse]] for fictional author Jack Dowland, considered the greatest science fiction author of the 20th century. In the story, Dowland publishes a short story titled "Orpheus with Clay Feet" under the pen name Philip K. Dick.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

The surname Dowland refers to [[Renaissance]] composer [[John Dowland]], who is featured in several works. The title ''[[Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said]]'' directly refers to Dowland's best-known composition, "[[Flow, my tears]]". In the novel ''[[The Divine Invasion]]'', the character Linda Fox, created specifically with [[Linda Ronstadt]] in mind, is an intergalactically famous singer whose entire body of work consists of recordings of John Dowland compositions.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}