Philip Dick is an American. I moved to San Francisco with my family as a child and grew up. He is one of a pair of twins. The other was a girl named Jane who died 5 weeks after she was born. Philip certainly had no impression of this at the time, but this incident had a deep impact on him in the future. It is also a recurring theme in many of his works.
When he was 5 years old, his parents divorced. Philip grew up in California with mediocre grades. Studied at Berkeley, but dropped out soon.
In 1951, Philip published it for the first time. Since then, he has made a living writing science fiction novels. Although she won several awards, she was in poverty all her life. His works are full of darkness, sadness, weirdness, and religious colors. He himself seems to have a certain degree of schizophrenia and paranoia. In early 1974, Philip began to have various hallucinations that eventually led him to believe that he was living a double life. He once thought that a certain prophet had occupied his body. This incredible experience of ordinary people may also be the source of his extraordinary imagination and subtle observation of human nature.
In particular, Philip's work has been put on the screen many times, as follows:
Blade Runner is adapted from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Total Recall (Schwarzenegger) is adapted from the novel We Can Remember it for Your Wholesale
Minority Report (Tom Cruise) is adapted from the novel The Minority Report
A Scanner Darkly is adapted from the novel of the same name.
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