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The science-fiction writer behind Blade Runner and Total Recall.
Philip K. Dick was an American science fiction writer who asked what is real and what is human. His stories became Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report.
Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and grew up mostly in California, in Berkeley. He sold his first story in 1951 and spent most of his life poor, writing at great speed for science fiction magazines and paperback publishers.
He wrote more than forty novels and about 120 short stories. The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award in 1963, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became the film Blade Runner, released just after his death in 1982. His early short stories, like Second Variety and The Eyes Have It, are some of the best places to start: sharp, strange and often funny.
Second Variety
Killer machines that learn to look like people. Our most-played Dick.
1 hr 48 min · read by Jason Michael Mann 
The Eyes Have It
A very short, very funny story.
9 min · read by Andrew Lea 
The Crystal Crypt
An early tale of escape from Mars.
55 min · read by Kristin Eileen Downey 
Narrated by Julie Ann Marra
Douglas Coleman has a cuckoo clock that has been in his family for years, and he loves it. He also has a wife, Laura, and the two do not always see eye to eye. One day th...
Narrated by Michael Lyons
Dr. Henry Harris, an army physician, is puzzled by a soldier home from a small asteroid garrison. The soldier says he is a plant. More men return with the same claim, and...
Narrated by Jason Michael Mann
The war between America and the Soviet Union has left Earth in ruins. On the battlefield, small robot claws made by the American side to hunt soldiers now seem to be buil...
Narrated by Kristin Eileen Downey
War between Mars and Earth is days away. On the last passenger ship to leave Mars, officials are searching for three people who have done something impossible to a great...
Narrated by Andrew Lea
A man finds a paperback left behind on a train and reads it at home. It is a story, he decides, about aliens who live among us, disguised as ordinary people. The book mak...
Narrated by Tess Stalker
In the future, a convict named Conger is offered his freedom if he will do one job. He must travel back in time to a world of the past and kill a preacher whose teachings...
Born in Chicago.
Sells his first story.
Second Variety.
Wins the Hugo Award for The Man in the High Castle.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dies in Santa Ana, months before Blade Runner opens.
Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau, among others.
Some of his early short stories are in the public domain in the United States because their copyright was not renewed. Those are the ones on Academy Voices.
Second Variety, or The Eyes Have It for something short.
Academy Voices has 6 Philip K. Dick audiobooks, each performed by a real narrator, with a free sample on every one. Every recording is Certified Human Voice.
Reviewed October 2026 by the Academy Voices team. Sources: Wikipedia, Wikidata .
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