The bibliography of Philip K. Dick includes 45 novels,Philip K. Dick wrote 36 science fiction novels and 9 mainstream novels - see The Philip K. Dick Bookshelf (retrieved November 10, 2025). 121 short stories, and 14 short story collections published by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) during his lifetime.
At the time of his death, Dick's work was generally known to only science fiction readers, and many of his novels and short stories were out of print. To date, a total of 45 novels have been published and translations have appeared in 25 languages. Six volumes of selected correspondence, written by Dick from 1938 through 1982, were published between 1991 and 2009.
The Library of America has issued three collections of Dick's novels. The first, published in June 2007, contained The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik, and was the first time science fiction was included in the LOA canon. The second collection was issued in July 2008, and included Martian Time Slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, Now Wait for Last Year, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, and A Scanner Darkly. The third collection was published in July 2009 and included A Maze of Death and the VALIS trilogy (VALIS, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer).
At least nine films have been adapted from Dick's work, the first being Blade Runner in 1982.
Recurring themes in Dick's work Five recurring philosophical themes in Dick's work have been classified by Philip K. Dick scholar Erik Davis: False realities Human vs. machine Entropy The nature of God Social control
Similarly, in Understanding Philip K. Dick, Eric Carl Link discussed eight themes or 'ideas and motifs':Link, Eric Carl (2010). pp. 48–101. Epistemology and the Nature of Reality Know Thyself The Android and the Human Entropy and Pot Healing The Theodicy Problem Warfare and Power Politics The Evolved Human 'Technology, Media, Drugs and Madness'
Published works Dates in this bibliography are for completion of first (and usually only) draft. Publication dates follow separately.
(+) indicates subsequent significant expansion (*) indicates subsequent revision or minor expansion (LOA#) indicates the volume of the Library of America omnibus (see below)
Novels by year of composition
Year Title Published Notes 1950 Gather Yourselves Together 1994 1952 Voices from the Street 2007 1953 Vulcan's Hammer 1960 + 1953 Dr. Futurity 1960 + 1953 The Cosmic Puppets 1957 * 1954 Solar Lottery 1955 * 1954 Mary and the Giant 1987 * 1954 The World Jones Made 1956 1955 Eye in the Sky 1957 1955 The Man Who Japed 1956 1956 A Time for George Stavros Manuscript lost 1956 Pilgrim on the Hill Manuscript lost 1956 The Broken Bubble 1988 1957 Puttering About in a Small Land 1985 1958 Nicholas and the Higs Manuscript lost. 1958 Time Out of Joint 1959 1958 In Milton Lumky Territory 1985 1959 Confessions of a Crap Artist 1975 1960 The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike 1984 1960 Humpty Dumpty in Oakland 1986 1961 The Man in the High Castle 1962 Hugo Award winner, 1963; LOA1 1962 We Can Build You 1972 First published as A. Lincoln, Simulacrum as a serial in Amazing Stories issues for November 1969 and January 1970. 1962 Martian Time-Slip 1964 LOA2; first published as All We Marsmen as a serial in Worlds of Tomorrow issues for August, October and December 1963. 1963 Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb 1965 Nebula Award nominee, 1965; LOA2 1963 The Game-Players of Titan 1963 1963 The Simulacra 1964 1963 The Crack in Space 1966 as Cantata-140 (1966) 1963 Now Wait for Last Year 1966 LOA2 1964 Clans of the Alphane Moon 1964 1964 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1965 Nebula Award nominee, 1965;LOA1 1964 The Zap Gun 1967 First published as Project Plowshare as a serial in Worlds of Tomorrow issues for November 1965 and January 1966. 1964 The Penultimate Truth 1964 1964 Deus Irae 1976 with Roger Zelazny *+ 1964 The Unteleported Man 1966 as Lies, Inc. (1984) *+ 1965 The Ganymede Takeover 1967 with Ray Nelson * 1965 Counter-Clock World 1967 + 1966 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 Nebula Award nominee, 1968; LOA1 1966 Nick and the Glimmung 1988 For children 1966 Ubik 1969 LOA1 1968 Galactic Pot-Healer 1969 1968 A Maze of Death 1970 LOA3 1969 Our Friends from Frolix 8 1970 1970 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said 1974 Nebula Award nominee, 1974;John W. Campbell Award winner, 1975;Hugo Award nominee, 1975;Locus Award nominee, 1975;LOA2 * 1973 A Scanner Darkly 1977 British Science Fiction Award winner, 1978; John W. Campbell Award nominee, 1978; LOA2 * 1976 Radio Free Albemuth 1985 1978 VALIS 1981 LOA3 1980 The Divine Invasion 1981 British Science Fiction Award nominee, 1982; LOA3 1981 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer 1982 Nebula Award nominee, 1982; Locus Award nominee, 1983; LOA3 1982 The Owl in Daylight Unfinished
Library of America The Library of America has republished 13 of Dick's 45 novels:
2007 Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle/The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Ubik
2008Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s: Martian Time Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly
2009Philip K. Dick: VALIS and Later Novels: A Maze of Death/VALIS/The Divine Invasion/The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Short story collections 1955 A Handful of Darkness
1957 The Variable Man And Other Stories
1969 The Preserving Machine
1973 The Book of Philip K. Dick (reissued in 1977 as The Turning Wheel and Other Stories)
1977 The Best of Philip K. Dick
1980 The Golden Man
1984 Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities
1985 I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
1987 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
1988 Beyond Lies the Wub
1989 Second Variety The Father-Thing
1990 The Days of Perky Pat The Little Black Box The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
1991 The Minority Report Second Variety
1992 The Eye of the Sibyl
1997 The Philip K. Dick Reader
2002 Minority Report Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
2004 Paycheck
2006 Vintage PKD
2009 The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume One: The Variable Man & Other Stories. Prime Books. The Early Work of Philip K. Dick, Volume Two: Breakfast at Twilight & Other Stories. Prime Books. November 2009. .
2013 The Best of Philip K. Dick. Introduction by David Gill, Philip K. Dick scholar Echo Point Books & Media.
Comparison of editions The five volumes of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick were re-published and sold separately by Gollancz and later by Citadel Twilight and by Subterranean Press. For the Citadel Twilight editions the volumes were renamed and two stories were moved from one volume to another. The following table provides a comparison of the corresponding volumes from the various editions.
published by Underwood-Miller published by Gollancz published by Citadel Twilight published by Subterranean Press The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 1 (1987) Beyond Lies the Wub (1988) The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990) The King of the Elves (2010) "Menace React" added The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 2 (1987) Second Variety (1989) We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1990) "Second Variety" removed "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" added Adjustment Team (2011) Contents reverted to original contents of Second Variety (1989) The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 3 (1987) The Father-Thing (1989) Second Variety (1991) "Second Variety" added Upon the Dull Earth (2012) Contents reverted to original contents of The Father-Thing (1989) The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 4 (1987) The Days of Perky Pat (1990) The Minority Report (1991) The Minority Report (2013) The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume 5 (1987) The Little Black Box (1990) The Eye of the Sibyl (1992) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" removed We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (2014) "Goodbye Vincent" added, "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" added back
Short stories 1952 "Beyond Lies the Wub" "The Gun" "The Little Movement" "The Skull"
1953
1954
1955
1956 "The Minority Report" "Pay for the Printer" "To Serve the Master" "Vulcan's Hammer"
1957 "Misadjustment" "The Unreconstructed M"
1958 "Null-O"
1959 "Explorers We" "Fair Game" "Recall Mechanism" "War Game"
1963 "The Days of Perky Pat" "If There Were No Benny Cemoli" "Stand-by (also published as Top Stand-by Job)" "What'll We Do with Ragland Park?"
1964
1965 "Retreat Syndrome"
1966 "Holy Quarrel" "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday"
1967 "Faith of Our Fathers" "Return Match"
1968 "Not by Its Cover" "The Story to End All Stories for Harlan Ellison’s Anthology Dangerous Visions"
1969 "The Electric Ant" "The War with the Fnools"
1974 "The Pre-persons" "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts"
1979 "The Exit Door Leads In"
1980 "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (Originally titled "Frozen Journey".) "Rautavaara's Case" "Chains of Air, Web of Aether"
1981 "The Alien Mind"
1984 "Strange Memories of Death"
1987 "Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked" "The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree" "The Eye of the Sibyl" "Stability" "A Terran Odyssey"
1988 "Goodbye, Vincent"
Other short works 1987 "Fawn, Look Back" (novel outline)
1992 "The Different Stages of Love" (previously unpublished passage from Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said)
2010 "Menace React" (fragment)
Speeches 1972 "The Android and the Human" (Delivered in Vancouver, Canada) 1977 "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" (Delivered in Metz, France) 1978 "How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later" (Undelivered, essay only)
Collected non-fiction 1988: The Dark Haired Girl 1995: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings 2011: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem and Pamela Jackson, eds. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publisher
Correspondence The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938–1971. Grass Valley, California: Underwood Books, 1996 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1938-1971. Grass Valley, California: Underwood Books, 1996 (Trade edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1972–1973. Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1972-1973. Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974. Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1991 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1974. Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1991 (Trade edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1975–1976. Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1992 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1975-1976. Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1992 (Slipcased edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977–1979. Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977-1979. Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1993 (Trade edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980–1982. Nevada City, California: Underwood Books, 2009 (Trade edition) (Slipcased edition) The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1980-1982. Nevada City, California: Underwood Books, 2009 (Trade edition)
Film adaptations