PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac Sunday Times Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise Michael Moorcock One of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced LA Weekly For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first Terry Gilliam The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world John Brunner
