his twin sister Jane died when he was six weeks old
first educated at Quaker schools, later at Berkeley
seller in record store, gets his first short-story "R🐶🐶G" published in 1951
amphetamine abuse; married 5 times; paranoia; schizophrenia;
self-described as "acosmic panentheist" - "I don't believe that the universe exists. I believe that the only thing that exists is God and (s)he is more than the universe. "
Theophany experienced as pink laser of information.
VALIS as alien intelligence or Gnostic God.
Schizophrenia, revelation, and ontology entangled.
A world ruled by a B...
Substance D splitting perception and selfhood.
Surveillance turning protagonist into both watcher and watched.
Erosion of personality into fragmented doubles.
War on drugs po...
Decaying reality sliding backward in time.
Cryonic half-life: the dead still communicate.
Jory as parasitic consciousness devouring worlds.
Ubik as quasi-cosmic product: salv...
A post-apocalyptic Earth emptied by nuclear fallout and mass extinction.
Empathy as the defining human trait, tested through the Voigt–Kampff ritual.
Rick Deckard huntin...
Chew-Z as a gateway to layered, recursive realities.
Palmer Eldritch as alien–demiurgic intruder with three stigmata.
Corporate rivalry turning metaphysical: P.P. Layout...
An Axis-dominated world with Berlin as the political and technological center.
Rocketry and aerospace supremacy redefining global power after WWII.
The chinese "Book o...
