Either the progression from the short story to the novel or the number and variety of his novels seems to have persuaded some science-fiction scholars that his short stories are lesser efforts. That opinion needs to be challenged, for some stories, such as "Autofac" (1955, collected in
The Best of Philip K. Dick ) and "Beyond Lies the Wub," to name but two, stand in a relationship to subsequent science-fiction writing not unlike that of Stanley G. Weinbaum's much reprinted "A Martian Odyssey" (1934).
Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in 1928, but he has lived most of his life in California in the San Francisco and Berkeley areas, one recent address being Fullerton. A longtime music lover, he worked while still in his teens as an announcer for a classical music program on station KSMO in 1947; he also operated a record store from 1948 to 1952. He attended the University of California at Berkeley in 1950 but dropped out because the required ROTC conflicted with his "anti-war convictions." In recent years he has frequently lectured on college campuses.
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