A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future

Anthony Peake is the author of five highly acclaimed books including Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die, The Labyrinth of Time: The Illusion of Past, Present and Future and The Out of Body Experience: The History and Science of Astral Travel. He now turns his attention to one of the most influential writers of the second half of the twentieth century: the enigmatic Philip K. Dick. In this book Peake attempts to place Dick's extraordinary experiences known as 2-3-74 in a broader picture. He will also present fascinating evidence that Dick may have been, as he termed the state in many of his novels and short stories, a 'precog' -- a person that can see the future. Philip K. Dick was a writer who drew upon his own life to address the nature of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia and transcendental experiences of all kinds. More than 10 major Hollywood movies are based on his work including Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau. Born in 1929 just before the Great Crash, Dick's twin sister died when she was a month old and his parents were divorced by the time he was three. In his teens, he began to show the first signs of mental instability, but by then he was already producing fiction writing of a visionary nature.