- Though many of his works were adapted by Hollywood, Dick had long passed away when the royalties for his works started coming in. He had poorly managed his business affairs and as a result, didn't see many royalties from his novels and short stories. This left him living most of his life in relative poverty and squalor. He received a large payment for the rights to "Do Androids Dream of Sheep?", which helped him have financial freedom for the first time in his life. However, he died shortly after the release of "Blade Runner" and never got to enjoy the money from that adaptation or any of the other ones made after his death, which likely would have made him one of the highest paid writers in the world.
- Before he died, he saw about 20 minutes of Blade Runner (1982), mostly-completed special effects shots with some sound effects and no music. Dick, who had been cynical about it beforehand, left the screening pleasantly stunned with what he had seen.
- One of the most adapted novelist/short story writers in Hollywood, though he detested Hollywood and initially had no interest in having his works adapted for film.
- Father of producers Isa Dick Hackett, Christopher Dick and Laura Leslie, co-founders of Electric Shepherd Productions, a company dedicated to the stewardship of his library.
- Philip K Dick got the idea for "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" when he found an Auschwitz Nazi Officer's Diary in the stacks of his university's library. It read "The screaming of children keeps me awake", so Philip K Dick decided the man had become an Android.
- Philip K Dick graduated from Berkley High School class of 1947 with future science fiction writer Ursula (Kroeber) Le Guin, but they didn't know each other.
- By 2009, films based on Philip K. Dick's writing had accumulated a total revenue of over US $1 billion.
- The story "Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick was originally adapted as a sequel to Total Recall (1990) by writers Ronald Shusett and Gary Goldman, later joined by Robert Goethals. The setting was changed to Mars with the Precogs being people mutated by the Martian atmosphere, as established in the first film. The main character was also changed to Douglas Quaid, the man played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The project eventually fell apart but the writers, who still owned the rights to the original story, rewrote the script, removing the elements from Total Recall (1990). This script was eventually tossed out when novelist Jon Cohen was hired in 1997 to start the project over from scratch. The only original element from the early script which made it to the final Minority Report (2002) film is the sequence in the car factory, an idea that Steven Spielberg loved.
- In 2005, scientists created an android with a head resembling Philip K. Dick that was programmed to respond to queries with responses appropriate to the author. The android also could "recognize" friends and family. When "introduced" to Dick's daughter Isolde ("Isa") Dick Hackett, the android launched into a tirade denouncing her mother, Nancy Hackett. Isa found the experience to be unpleasant. The head of the android eventually was lost during a trip on an airliner. The android was flying to Santa Ana, California, where Dick died in 1982, which Isa found to be a fitting end for her tormentor.
- Long-time mentor and friend of Tim Powers, James Blaylock, and K.W. Jeter, sci-fi authors who co-founded the steampunk genre.
- Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Fort Morgan, Morgan County, Colorado, USA Plot: Section K, block 1, lot 56.
- Several of his stories involve chasing/running. Examples include: Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (1990), Impostor (2001), and Minority Report (2002).
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 231-233. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Christopher Hitchens' column in "The Nation" was called "Minority Report".
- Was a heavy user of amphetamines in the early 1970s, which, "enabled him to produce 68 final pages of copy a day," he said.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 125-132 (as David Cornwell). Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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