Philip K Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist.[1] He wrote 45 novels[2] and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines.[3] His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity, and commonly featured characters struggling against alternate realities, illusory environments, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness.[4][5] He is considered one of the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction. Born in Chicago, Dick moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family at a young age. He began publishing science fiction stories in 1952, at age 23. He found little commercial success[7] until his alternative history novel The Man in the High Castle (1962) earned him acclaim, including a Hugo Award for Best Novel, when he was 33.[8] He followed with science fiction novels such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) (basis of Bladerunner) and Ubik (1969). His 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (the novel is parodied as The Android Cried Me a River in Dick's later novel VALIS) won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick

• Total Recall (1990), based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.