Philip K. Dick as a Character
Posted on Dec 27th, 2008 by
Marmalade

Besides PKD making himself a character in his own work (ie VALIS as Horselover Fat), I wanted to list all of the books that have used him as a fictional character. I decided to create this list because I haven’t seen a complete list anywhere online which is quite impressive considering how many websites relate to PKD’s work. There might be more, but here are the only books I’ve discovered so far.
Novels:
Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas by Michael Bishop
The Word of God by Thomas M. Disch
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
Anthology of short stories:
Welcome to Reality: The Nightmares of Philip K Dick edited by Uwe Anton
Edit: I removed Philip K. Dick High by David Bischoff because I’m not sure that PKD is actually a character in it. Maybe I’ll read it someday to find out. It was this review I was looking at and he mentioned a book of short stories I added to the list.
I think PKD crops up in Christopher Miller’s ‘The Cardboard Universe’, also.
I’m not familiar with Christopher Miller. I’ll check out that book. Thanks for the comment.