Editing Philip K. Dick (section)

==Influence and legacy==
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[[Lawrence Sutin]] wrote a 1989 biography of Dick, titled ''Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick''.<ref name=sutin />

In 1993, French writer [[Emmanuel Carrère]] published ''[[I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick]]'' ({{langx|fr|Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts}}), which the author describes in his preface in this way:<blockquote>The book you hold in your hands is a very peculiar book. I have tried to depict the life of Philip K. Dick from the inside, in other words, with the same freedom and empathy – indeed with the same truth – with which he depicted his own characters.<ref name=carrere /></blockquote> The book omits fact checking, sourcing, notes and index.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Sean |last=O'Hagen |title=What a clever Dick |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,1504386,00.html#article_continue |work=The Observer |location=UK |date=June 12, 2005 |access-date=April 15, 2008 |archive-date=May 22, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522183832/http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,1504386,00.html#article_continue |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Charles |last=Taylor |title=Just Imagine Philip K. Dick |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7DC1430F933A15755C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 20, 2004 |access-date=April 15, 2008 |archive-date=May 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080524031010/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7DC1430F933A15755C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Michael |last=Berry |title=The dead no longer lie in grave silence |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/04/RVGBG7BT361.DTL |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=July 4, 2004 |access-date=April 15, 2008 |archive-date=May 22, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522072854/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2004%2F07%2F04%2FRVGBG7BT361.DTL |url-status=live }}</ref> It can be considered a [[non-fiction novel]] about his life.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Dick has influenced many writers, including [[Jonathan Lethem]]<ref>You Don't Know Dick by Jonathan Lethem, Bookforum {{Cite web |url=http://www.bookforum.com/archive/sum_02/lethem.html |title=Bookforum &#124; summer 2002 |access-date=August 23, 2023 |archive-date=January 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116101347/http://www.bookforum.com/archive/sum_02/lethem.html |url-status=dead }} (Summer 2002)</ref> and [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]. The prominent literary critic [[Fredric Jameson]] proclaimed Dick the "[[Shakespeare]] of Science Fiction", and praised his work as "one of the most powerful expressions of the society of [[Spectacle (critical theory)|spectacle]] and pseudo-event".<ref>Fredric Jameson, ''Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions'', London and New York: Verso, 2005, p. 345; p. 347.</ref> The author [[Roberto Bolaño]] also praised Dick, describing him as "[[Thoreau]] plus the death of the [[American dream]]".<ref>{{cite news |author=Biography and Memoir Reviews |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9160698/Between-Parentheses-by-Roberto-Bolano-review.html |title=Between Parentheses by Roberto Bolaño: review |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=November 12, 2013 |archive-date=December 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230124331/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9160698/Between-Parentheses-by-Roberto-Bolano-review.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Dick has also influenced filmmakers, his work being compared to films such as [[the Wachowskis]]' ''[[The Matrix]]'',<ref name="modwor">{{cite web |url=http://www.themodernword.com/SCRIPTorium/dick.html |title=Scriptorium – Philip K. Dick |publisher=Themodernword.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412044539/http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/dick.html |archive-date=April 12, 2008 |access-date=July 28, 2008 }}</ref> [[David Cronenberg]]'s ''[[Videodrome]]'',<ref name="dailytele">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/07/14/bfdick14.xml&page=4 How Hollywood woke up to a dark genius]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, [[The Daily Telegraph]]   {{Cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2006%2F07%2F14%2Fbfdick14.xml&page=4 |title=Culture, Arts and Entertainment - Telegraph |access-date=July 26, 2017 |archive-date=November 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111011806/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2006%2F07%2F14%2Fbfdick14.xml&page=4 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[eXistenZ]]'',<ref name="modwor" /> and ''[[Spider (2002 film)|Spider]]'',<ref name="dailytele" /> [[Spike Jonze]]'s ''[[Being John Malkovich]]'',<ref name="dailytele" /> ''[[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation]]'',<ref name="dailytele" /> [[Michel Gondry]]'s ''[[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind|title=Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind|author=Sal Cinquemani|date=September 25, 2004|work=Slant Magazine|access-date=April 17, 2020|archive-date=July 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704202513/https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/apr/30/dvdreviews.shopping4|title=Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind|author=Peter Bradshaw|work=The Guardian|date=April 30, 2004|access-date=December 12, 2016|archive-date=March 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301141851/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/apr/30/dvdreviews.shopping4|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Alex Proyas]]'s ''[[Dark City (1998 film)|Dark City]]'',<ref name="modwor" /> [[Peter Weir]]'s ''[[The Truman Show]]'',<ref name="modwor" /> [[Andrew Niccol]]'s ''[[Gattaca]]'',<ref name="dailytele" /> ''[[In Time (film)|In Time]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=SDCC TRAILER: Timberlake and Seyfried on the run in IN TIME|url=http://veryaware.com/2011/07/sdcc-trailer-timberlake-and-seyfried-on-the-run-in-in-time/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405183037/http://veryaware.com/2011/07/sdcc-trailer-timberlake-and-seyfried-on-the-run-in-in-time/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 5, 2012|access-date=July 22, 2011}}</ref> [[Terry Gilliam]]'s ''[[12 Monkeys (film)|12 Monkeys]]'',<ref name="dailytele" /> [[Alejandro Amenábar]]'s ''[[Open Your Eyes (1997 film)|Open Your Eyes]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Alejandro Amenábar Fernando Cantos|url=http://screenwritersforhire.com/tag/alejandro-amenabar-fernando-cantos/|access-date=January 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306171318/http://screenwritersforhire.com/tag/alejandro-amenabar-fernando-cantos/|archive-date=March 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[David Fincher]]'s ''[[Fight Club]]'',<ref name="dailytele" /> [[Cameron Crowe]]'s ''[[Vanilla Sky]]'',<ref name="modwor" /> [[Darren Aronofsky]]'s ''[[Pi (film)|Pi]]'',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080830032847/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn//A6396-2002Jul26 Philip K. Dick's Future Is Now], ''[[The Washington Post]]''</ref> [[Richard Kelly (director)|Richard Kelly]]'s ''[[Donnie Darko]]''<ref>[http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/10/30/donnie_darko/ Donnie Darko], ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]''  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703001655/http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/10/30/donnie_darko/ |date=July 3, 2009 }}</ref> and ''[[Southland Tales]]'',<ref>[http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs27/int_peranson_kelly.html Richard Kelly's Revelations: Defending Southland Tales.], Cinema Scope  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910033224/http://www.cinema-scope.com/cs27/int_peranson_kelly.html |date=September 10, 2011 }}</ref> [[Rian Johnson]]'s [[Looper (film)|''Looper'']],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/30/3245174/rian-johnson-interview-looper-brick-future-of-film|title=Noir to near-future: 'Looper' director Rian Johnson talks sci-fi, Twitter, and the fate of film|author=Bryan Bishop|date=August 30, 2012|work=The Verge|access-date=September 8, 2017|archive-date=July 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731032126/https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/30/3245174/rian-johnson-interview-looper-brick-future-of-film|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Duncan Jones]]' ''[[Source Code]]'', [[Christopher Nolan]]'s ''[[Memento (film)|Memento]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/philip_pr.html|title=The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick|author=Frank Rose|date=December 1, 2003|magazine=WIRED|access-date=March 11, 2017|archive-date=March 17, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317004142/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/philip_pr.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[Inception]],''<ref>[https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/540040/could_inception_trigger_a_new_wave_of_scifi_cinema.html Could Inception trigger a new wave of sci-fi cinema?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504220513/http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/540040/could_inception_trigger_a_new_wave_of_scifi_cinema.html |date=May 4, 2012 }}, Den of Geek</ref> and [[Infinity Train|Owen Dennis]]' ''[[Infinity Train]]''.{{citation needed|date=March 2025}}

The Philip K. Dick Society was an organization dedicated to promoting the literary works of Dick and was led by Dick's longtime friend and music journalist [[Paul Williams (Crawdaddy! creator)|Paul Williams]]. Williams also served as Dick's [[literary executor]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/r-i-p-paul-williams-pioneering-music-journalist-and-p-461838276|title=R.I.P. Paul Williams, pioneering music journalist and Philip K. Dick's literary executor|website=io9|date=March 28, 2013 |access-date=April 6, 2020|archive-date=April 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406205822/https://io9.gizmodo.com/r-i-p-paul-williams-pioneering-music-journalist-and-p-461838276|url-status=live}}</ref> for several years after Dick's death and wrote one of the first biographies of Dick, entitled ''[[Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wallace Harris|first=James|date=April 15, 2016|title=The Biographies of Philip K. Dick|url=https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2016/04/biographies-philip-k-dick/|url-status=live|access-date=May 6, 2021|archive-date=May 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506153433/https://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2016/04/biographies-philip-k-dick/}}</ref>

The Philip K. Dick estate owns and operates the production company Electric Shepherd Productions,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/67404-boom-to-collect-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep.html |title=Boom! to Collect 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' |date=July 7, 2015 |work=Publishers Weekly |access-date=November 28, 2015 |archive-date=November 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127030843/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/67404-boom-to-collect-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep.html |url-status=live }}</ref> which has produced the film ''[[The Adjustment Bureau]]'' (2011), the TV series ''[[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|The Man in the High Castle]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-man-in-the-high-castle-tv-series-philip-k-dick-book-2015-11 |title=Amazon's 'Man in the High Castle' TV series has made Philip K. Dick's original book a bestseller |date=November 20, 2015 |work=Business Insider |access-date=November 28, 2015 |archive-date=November 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123170405/http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-man-in-the-high-castle-tv-series-philip-k-dick-book-2015-11 |url-status=live }}</ref> and also a [[Marvel Comics]] 5-issue adaptation of ''Electric Ant''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://deadline.com/2013/10/dee-rees-philip-k-dick-martian-time-slip-613431/ |title=Dee Rees To Adapt Philip K. Dick's 'Martian Time-Slip' |date=October 17, 2013 |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=November 28, 2015 |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208143409/http://deadline.com/2013/10/dee-rees-philip-k-dick-martian-time-slip-613431/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[File:2019 - Press conferences - Day 2 061119SMcC0008 (49024444378).jpg|thumb|The [[Hanson Robotics]] Philip K. Dick Android, at the 2019 [[Web Summit]] event]]
Dick was recreated by his fans in the form of a [[Simulacrum#Philip K. Dick|simulacrum]] or remote-controlled [[android (robot)|android]] designed in his likeness.<ref>{{cite press release| title = About The Philip K. Dick Android Project: A Note from Laura and Isa| publisher=Philip K. Dick Trust| date = June 24, 2005| url = http://www.philipkdick.com/media_android-062405.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120812121725/http://philipkdick.com/media_android-062405.html| archive-date = August 12, 2012| access-date =April 14, 2008}}</ref><ref>''[[Nova ScienceNow]]'', [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWWLg4wLEY "Next Big Thing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610195114/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIWWLg4wLEY |date=June 10, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pkdandroid.org/|title=PKD Android|access-date=June 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001204846/http://www.pkdandroid.org/|archive-date=October 1, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> Such simulacra had been themes of many of Dick's works. The Philip K. Dick simulacrum was included on a discussion panel in a [[San Diego Comic Con]] presentation about the film adaptation of the novel, ''[[A Scanner Darkly]]''. In February 2006, an [[America West Airlines]] employee misplaced the android's head, and it has not yet been found.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Waxman| first = Sharon| title = A Strange Loss of Face, More Than Embarrassing| work = [[The New York Times]]| date = June 24, 2006| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/movies/24andr.html| access-date = April 14, 2008| archive-date = June 5, 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120605044634/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/movies/24andr.html| url-status = live}}</ref> In January 2011, it was announced that Hanson Robotics had built a replacement.<ref>{{Cite news| last = Lamar| first = Cyriaque| title = The Lost Robotic Head of Philip K Dick Has Been Rebuilt| work = [[io9]]| date = January 12, 2011| url = http://io9.com/5731075/the-lost-robotic-head-of-philip-k-dick-has-been-rebuilt| access-date = January 12, 2011| archive-date = January 14, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110114022527/http://io9.com/5731075/the-lost-robotic-head-of-philip-k-dick-has-been-rebuilt| url-status = live}}</ref>

===Film===
* [[BBC2]] released in 1994 a biographical documentary as part of its ''[[Arena (UK TV series)|Arena]]'' arts series called ''Philip K. Dick: A Day in the Afterlife''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1056525/|title="Arena" Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife (TV Episode 1994)|author=timotheyido|date=April 9, 1994|publisher=IMDb|access-date=July 21, 2018|archive-date=February 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210205942/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1056525/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick'' was a documentary film produced in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273244/ |title=The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick |publisher=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
* ''The Penultimate Truth About Philip K. Dick'' was another biographical documentary film produced in 2007.<ref name="penultimate">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1461696/ |title=The Penultimate Truth About Philip K. Dick |publisher=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
* The 1987 film ''The Trouble with Dick'', in which [[Tom Villard]] plays a character named "Dick Kendred" (cf. Philip Kindred Dick), who is a science fiction author<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094187/ |title=The Trouble With Dick |publisher=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
* The dialogue of [[Nikos Nikolaidis]]' 1987 film ''[[Morning Patrol]]'' contains excerpts taken from published works authored by Philip K. Dick.
* The [[Cinema of Spain|Spanish]] feature film ''Proxima'' (2007) by [[Carlos Atanes]], where the character ''Felix Cadecq'' is based on Dick<ref>{{Citation|title=Próxima (2007) |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970187/trivia|access-date=April 6, 2021|archive-date=June 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605005533/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970187/trivia|url-status=live}}</ref>
* A 2008 film titled ''[[Your Name Here]]'', by [[Matthew Wilder]], features [[Bill Pullman]] as science fiction author William J. Frick, a character based on Dick<ref name=V1>{{cite news|last=Koehler|first=Robert|title=Review: 'Your Name Here'|url=https://variety.com/2008/film/reviews/your-name-here-2-1200508531/|access-date=April 3, 2014|newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=July 7, 2008|archive-date=April 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407151545/http://variety.com/2008/film/reviews/your-name-here-2-1200508531/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=M3>{{cite news|last=Fischer|first=Martha|title=Another Dick Biopic!|url=http://news.moviefone.com/2006/08/08/another-dick-biopic/|access-date=April 3, 2014|newspaper=[[Moviefone]]|date=August 8, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407071902/http://news.moviefone.com/2006/08/08/another-dick-biopic/|archive-date=April 7, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=AMG>{{cite news|last=Buchanan|first=Jason|title=Your Name Here (2008)|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/your-name-here-v468284/|access-date=April 2, 2014|newspaper=[[AllMovie]]|archive-date=May 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507082320/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/your-name-here-v468284/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=C1>{{cite news|last=Kemp|first=Cal|title=CineVegas X: Matthew Wilder Interview – 'Your Name Here'|url=https://collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/8239/tcid/1|access-date=April 2, 2014|newspaper=Collider|date=June 17, 2008|archive-date=April 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401014210/http://collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/8239/tcid/1|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The 2010 science fiction film ''[[15 Till Midnight]]'' cites Dick's influence with an "acknowledgment to the works of" credit.<ref>IMDb [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568798/fullcredits "Full credits"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101095959/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568798/fullcredits |date=January 1, 2016 }}</ref>
* The ''[[Prophets of Science Fiction]]'' episode, Philip K Dick. 2011 Documentary<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2092743/|title="Prophets of Science Fiction" Philip K. Dick (TV Episode 2011)|date=November 23, 2011|publisher=IMDb|access-date=July 21, 2018|archive-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211234242/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2092743/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===In fiction===
* [[Michael Bishop (author)|Michael Bishop]]'s [[Michael Bishop (author)#Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas|''The Secret Ascension'']] (1987; published as ''Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas''), which is set in an alternative universe where his non-genre work is published but his science fiction is banned by a totalitarian United States in thrall to a demonically possessed [[Richard Nixon]].
* The short story "The Transmigration of Philip K" (1984) by [[Michael Swanwick]] (in the 1991 collection ''[[Gravity's Angels]]'')
* In [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s 1971 novel ''[[The Lathe of Heaven]]'', whose characters alter reality through their dreams.  Two made-for-TV films based on the novel have been made: ''[[The Lathe of Heaven (film)|The Lathe of Heaven]]'' (1980) and ''[[Lathe of Heaven (film)|Lathe of Heaven]]'' (2002)
* In [[Thomas M. Disch]]'s ''The Word of God'' (2008)<ref>Disch, Thomas M. ''The Word of God''. San Francisco:Tachyon, 2008</ref>
* The comics magazine ''[[Weirdo (comics)|Weirdo]]'' published "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick" by cartoonist [[Robert Crumb]] in 1986.<ref>Crumb, Robert. "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick," ''Weirdo'' #17 ([[Last Gasp (publisher)|Last Gasp]], Summer 1986).</ref>  Though this is not an adaptation of a specific book or story by Dick, it incorporates elements of Dick's experience which he related in short stories, novels, essays, and the ''[[Exegesis (book)|Exegesis]]''. The story parodies the form of a [[Chick tract]], a type of [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] comic, many of which relate the story of an epiphany leading to a conversion to [[fundamentalist Christianity]].
* In the 1976 alternate history novel ''[[The Alteration]]'' by [[Kingsley Amis]], one of the novels-within-a-novel depicted is ''The Man in the High Castle'' (mirroring ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'' in the real-life novel), still written by Philip K. Dick.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/10/alternative-history-butterfly-moments-reach-take-off-amazon-man-in-high-castle|title=What if? Alternative history's butterfly moments reach lift-off|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=September 13, 2017|archive-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914035101/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/10/alternative-history-butterfly-moments-reach-take-off-amazon-man-in-high-castle|url-status=live}}</ref> Instead of the novel being set in 1962 in an alternate universe where the [[Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II|Axis Powers won the Second World War]] and named for Hawthorne Abendsen, the author of its novel-within-a-novel, it depicts an alternate universe where the [[Protestant Reformation]] occurred (events including the continuation of Henry VIII's Schismatic policies by his son, Henry IX, and the creation of an independent North America in 1848), with one character speculating that the titular character was a wizard.
* The short film trilogy ''Code 7'' written and directed by [[Nacho Vigalondo]] starts with the line "Philip K. Dick presents". The story also contains some other references to Philip K. Dick's body of work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5579182/|title=Código 7|date=February 8, 2018|publisher=IMDb|access-date=July 21, 2018|archive-date=March 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312061943/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5579182/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In the 2022 web anime ''[[Cyberpunk: Edgerunners]]'', the character, Rebecca, has the words "PK DICK" tattooed on her right thigh.

===Music===
* "Flow My Tears" is the name of an instrumental by bassist [[Stuart Hamm]], inspired by Dick's novel of the same name. The track is found on his album ''[[Radio Free Albemuth (album)|Radio Free Albemuth]]'', also named after a Dick novel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guitar9.com/column/stuart-hamm-radio-free-albemuth|title=Stuart Hamm "Radio Free Albemuth" &#124; Guitar Nine|website=www.guitar9.com|access-date=April 10, 2020|archive-date=November 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125090713/https://www.guitar9.com/column/stuart-hamm-radio-free-albemuth|url-status=live}}</ref>
* "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said" and other seminal Ph. K. Dick novels inspired the electronic music concept album "''The Dowland Shores of Philip K. Dick's Universe''"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leventeth.wix.com/thedowlandshores|title=The Dowland Shores of Philip K. Dick's Universe|work=CD and digital download album release|access-date=July 23, 2016|archive-date=July 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708194713/http://leventeth.wix.com/thedowlandshores|url-status=live}}</ref> by Levent
* American rapper and producer [[El-P]] is a fan of Dick and other science fiction. Many of Dick's themes, such as [[paranoia]] and questions about the nature of reality, feature in El-P's work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/5866-el-p/|title=Interviews|work=Pitchfork|date=August 2002|access-date=April 17, 2020|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222131314/http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/5866-el-p/|url-status=dead}}</ref> A song on the 2002 album ''[[Fantastic Damage]]'' is titled "T.O.J." and the chorus makes reference to the Dick work ''[[Time Out of Joint]]''.
* English singer [[Hugh Cornwell]] included an instrumental called "Philip K. Ridiculous" on his 2008 album "Hooverdam".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/magsitepages/Article/4743/Hugh-Cornwell-Interview|title=Hugh Cornwell – Interview|work=pennyblackmusic.co.uk|access-date=April 25, 2015|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904011037/http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/magsitepages/Article/4743/Hugh-Cornwell-Interview|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sister (Sonic Youth album)|Sister]], a [[Sonic Youth]] album, "was in part inspired by the life and works of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story|last=Foege|first=Alec|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|year=1994|page=163}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Rebecca |last=Bengal |title=Albums Sister Sonic Youth 1987 |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sonic-youth-sister/ |website=Pitchfork |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=February 24, 2023 |quote=Reviewed: May 9, 2019 The band was also reading the cultishly metaphysical science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, whose mordant, visionary works and traumatic life experiences were very much in the air during Sister's creation. |archive-date=January 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113044322/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sonic-youth-sister/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Blind Guardian]]'s song "Time What is Time" from the 1992 album "Somewhere Far Beyond" is loosely based on the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blindguardian.fisek.com.tr/interviews/iv7.html|title=Blind Guardian Interview|website=blindguardian.fisek.com.tr|access-date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=August 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812133948/http://blindguardian.fisek.com.tr/interviews/iv7.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*American band Clutch's song, "X-Ray Visions" features images of Dick in their official music video. Additionally, Neil Fallon said "[Dick's] general philosophy and questions have always crept into my lyrics, because I share an interest in it. On Earth Rocker, 'Crucial Velocity' was definitely a Philip K. Dick song for me. On this record, 'X-Ray Visions' certainly is."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/clutch/x-ray-visions |title=X-Ray Visions by Clutch |website=Songfacts |access-date=January 22, 2025}}</ref>

===Radio===
* In June 2014, [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast ''The Two Georges'' by Stephen Keyworth, inspired by the FBI's investigation of Phil and his wife Kleo in 1955, and the subsequent friendship that developed between Phil and FBI Agent Scruggs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046p07q|title=Stephen Keyworth – The Two Georges – BBC Radio 4 Extra|publisher=BBC|access-date=September 20, 2018|archive-date=December 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223064800/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046p07q|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Theater===
* A 2005 play, ''800 Words: the Transmigration of Philip K. Dick'' by Victoria Stewart, which re-imagines Dick's final days.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pwcenter.org/profile.asp?userid=93 |title=Core Member Profile Victoria Stewart |date=May 20, 2008 |publisher=The Playwrights' Center |access-date=March 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520090036/http://www.pwcenter.org/profile.asp?userid=93 |archive-date=May 20, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Contemporary philosophy===
[[Postmodernism|Postmodernists]] such as [[Jean Baudrillard]] and [[Laurence Rickels]] have commented on Dick's writing's foreshadowing of postmodernity.<ref name=Matrix>{{Cite book| last = Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz, Stefan Herbrechter| title = The Matrix in theory| page = 136 |publisher=Rodopi |year=2006 |isbn=978-90-420-1639-2 <!--|ISBN=90-420-1639-6 -->}}</ref> Jean Baudrillard offers this interpretation:

<blockquote>"It is hyperreal. It is a universe of simulation, which is something altogether different. And this is so not because Dick speaks specifically of simulacra. SF has always done so, but it has always played upon the double, on artificial replication or imaginary duplication, whereas here the double has disappeared. There is no more double; one is always already in the other world, an other world which is not another, without mirrors or projection or utopias as means for reflection. The simulation is impassable, unsurpassable, checkmated, without exteriority. We can no longer move 'through the mirror' to the other side, as we could during the golden age of transcendence."<ref>{{cite journal | url = http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/55/baudrillard55art.htm | title = Simulacra and Science Fiction | first = Jean | last = Baudrillard | journal = Science Fiction Studies | access-date = May 26, 2007 | archive-date = June 8, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070608060844/http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/55/baudrillard55art.htm | url-status = live }}</ref>
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Dick's anti-government skepticism was referred to in ''Mythmakers and Lawbreakers'', a collection of interviews about fiction by anarchist authors. Noting his early authorship of ''[[The Last of the Masters]]'', an anarchist-themed novelette, author [[Margaret Killjoy]] expressed that while Dick never fully sided with [[anarchism]], his opposition to government [[centralization]] and [[organized religion]] has influenced [[Anarcho-Gnosticism|anarchist interpretations of gnosticism]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Killjoy|first=Margaret|title=Mythmakers and Lawbreakers|publisher=[[AK Press]]|location=Stirling|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84935-002-0|oclc=318877243|page=209}}</ref>

=== Video games ===
* The 3.0 update for the grand strategy video game ''[[Stellaris (video game)|Stellaris]]'' is named the "Dick" update, following the game's trend of naming updates after science fiction authors.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stellaris' upcoming espionage systems are changing ahead of the 3.0 'Dick' patch|url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/stellaris/3-0-dick|access-date=March 28, 2021|website=PCGamesN|date=March 18, 2021 |language=en-GB|archive-date=March 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210320194954/https://www.pcgamesn.com/stellaris/3-0-dick|url-status=live}}</ref>
*The 2016 video game ''[[Californium (video game)|Californium]]'' was developed as a tribute to Philip K. Dick and his writings to coincide with an [[Arte]]'s documentary series.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/californium-the-many-surrealities-of-philip-k-dick/ | title = Californium: A game about the many (sur)realities of Philip K. Dick | first = Cassandra | last = Kraw | date = November 13, 2015 | access-date = May 12, 2016 | work = [[Ars Technica]] | archive-date = April 26, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160426230010/http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/californium-the-many-surrealities-of-philip-k-dick/ | url-status = live }}</ref>