Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928, the son of Joseph Edgar Dick, a government employee, and his wife, Dorothy Kindred. However, he lived most of his life in California. A music lover, Dick worked as an announcer on a classical music station, KSMO, in 1947, and in a record shop from 1948 to 1952. In 1950 he attended the University of California at Berkeley but dropped out because the Universitys required ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) courses conflicted with his antiwar convictions. Meanwhile, he had begun writing and in 1952 sold his first story, Roog, to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. In the same year, Planet Stories published his better-known short story Beyond Lies the Wub. ...