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Philip K. Dick
| Name: | Philip K. Dick |
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| Occupation: | writer |
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| Works: | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, many more |
| Official Website(s): | |
| Fan Website(s): | philipkdickfans, see more below |
| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
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Philip K. Dick was an American science fiction writer. He had (and continues to have) a fan following for his own writing, but there is a bigger fandom associated with movies and TV shows adapted from his works, such as Blade Runner and The Man in the High Castle.
See Wikipedia for a complete bibliography and a list of adaptations of his works.
Fanworks Fandoms
Fans have written some fanfiction for a few of his works, but fanfiction of the adaptations is more popular. On the AO3 as of 2022, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the most popular of his stories, with 22 fanworks. Blade Runner is the most popular adaptation, with 371 fanworks, along with 222 Blade Runner fusions for other fandoms. The second most popular is The Man in the High Castle with 273 fanworks. There are also fanworks for Minority Report and Total Recall. Fanfiction.net has a similar spread, with Blade Runner as the most popular adaptation (114 stories).
Fandom
Meta
- hello I would love to hear about your masters thesis, Archived version by ms-demeanor, about symbolism and motifs across Dick's body of work.
Links
Fannish Resources
- PhilipKDick.com.com (Twitter), a fansite
- PKDElectricDreams.com, another fansite
- Philip K. Dick FANPAGE, another fansite
- big-swinging-dick.tumblr.com, a Tumblr blog run by ms-demeanor
Communities
- r/philipkDickheads on Reddit
- #philip k dick on Tumblr
Wikis
- Philip K. Dick on Wikipedia
- Philip K. Dickipedia Wiki on Fandom.com
- Philip K. Dick on Fancyclopedia
References