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Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982 at the age of fifty-three. He is buried next to his twin sister Jane at this gravesite in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
philip k. dick’s “hermit house”
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Philip K. Dick moved to this house in San Rafael with his fourth wife in 1968. After they separated, a rotating cast of characters would live and do drugs with him at the house. It would earn the nickname 'Hermit House' and this time period in his life would become the basis for A Scanner Darkly published in 1977.
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Philip K. Dick lived in this house from 1965-68 with his fourth wife. It was here that he wrote Ubik and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
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Despite publishing sixty-two short stories from 1951-1954, Philip K. Dick was still living in poverty in Berkeley in the '50s. This pet shop was where he reportedly bought the horse meat that he survived on. It was sold as dog food, but according to Dick, the clerk did call him out on the fact that he was eating the horse meat himself.
philip k. dick’s home
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Philip K. Dick moved here with his second wife in 1950 shortly after they were married. They would stay here for eight years. He was a prolific writer of short stories (thirty stories were published in 1953 alone) and his first novels, including Solar Lottery and The Man Who Japed, were also published by Ace books during this time.
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