Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and was an American science-fiction author. His best-known works include *A Scanner Darkly*, *Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?*, and the stories adapted into films such as *Blade Runner*, *Minority Report*, *Total Recall*, *Impostor*, and *Paycheck*. Dick died in 1982, just weeks before the premiere of *Blade Runner*.