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The Auto/Biographies of Philip K. Dick Infinite Regressions

2026 · Routledge

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D. Harlan Wilson

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ISBN 9781032687001
306 Pages
Published September 7, 2026 by Routledge

Table of Content
INTRODUCTION: Speculative Biography and the Art of Truth
We Phildickian Psychonauts
Infinite Regressions, or, the Game of Infinity
Auto/Biography, Science Fiction, and PKD Studies
Which Way to Inner Space?
Hermeneutics of Speculation

1. UMBRELLAS OF LIGHT: Biographical Spores
Later Life and Death-Writings
The Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter
“In the World He Was Writing About: The Life of Philip K. Dick”

2. DIVINE LIVES: Literary Biographies
“Literary” Biografriendships
Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick
Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick

3. BALLARDIAN EXPLORATIONS OF PHILDICKIAN INNER SPACE: Psychobiographies
Asylum Mundi
Philip K. Dick: In his Own Words | Philip K. Dick: The Last Testament
To the High Castle, Philip K. Dick: A Life, 1928-1962
Philip K. Dick on Film | Variable Man: The Lives of Philip K. Dick
A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick

4. OF WIVES & DARK-HAIRED GIRLS: Memoirs
Records of Affection and Disaffection
The Search for Philip K. Dick
Remembering Firebright: My Life with Philip K. Dick
The Other Side of Philip K. Dick: A Tale of Two Friends

5. CARTESIAN PLAY: Creative Life-Writings
Deus Deceptors
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick: A Comics Biography
“The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick”
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas
The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
Welcome to Reality: The Nightmares of Philip K. Dick

6. HERMENEUTIC MONOMANIA: Letters, Autobiographika, and the Exegesis
The Autobiographical Abyss
The Dark-Haired Girl
Autobiografiction
A Scanner Darkly
Radio Free Albemuth and VALIS
The Divine Invasion
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Übertext
In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis
The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

CODA
The Splintered Self