Philip K. Dick wrote 44 novels during a career that lasted about 30 years.

Dick’s output was astonishing even by the standards of pulp science fiction. BBC Culture describes a remarkably prolific career spanning three decades, during which he produced 44 novels and countless short stories. Speed was not just a feature of his work; it was part of his survival as a writer. Yet beneath the rushing plots were persistent questions about identity, authority, perception, and the unstable boundary between what seems real and what is real.