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The speaker says he is most interested in two questions: what is real, and what makes a person genuinely human. The quote frames those as the core concerns behind his thinking and writing.
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About Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer and novelist
Philip K. Dick was an American science fiction writer and novelist. He is known for work that questioned reality, identity, and perception, and for stories that often unsettled the line between the ordinary and the strange. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, with most of his short fiction appearing in science fiction magazines. His fiction often followed characters facing alternate realities, false environments, powerful corporations, authoritarian rule, drug use, and altered states of consciousness. He is regarded as a major figure in 20th-century science fiction.
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Books by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2007
The Man in the High Castle
1999
Ubik
1969
The variable man, and other stories
1957
The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
2004