Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s (LOA #173): The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do AndroidsDream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik

Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem’s words, “wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him.”

This Library of America volume brings together four of Dick’s most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an ...