Who Really Wrote Philip K. Dick’s Best Novel?

A 3,000-Year-Old Algorithm, ‘The Man in the High Castle,’ and the Knobby Question That Won’t Go Away

While Eddie Haskell was busy putting the shine on Mrs. Cleaver, Philip K. Dick was trying to scuff the shine off suburban America. All through the 1950s, Dick scribbled both short stories and long. While he penned plenty of sci-fi during the period, he craved recognition as a mainstream literary novelist and wrote several novels set in the San Francisco…