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Wiktionary gives a definition for Dickian:

Dickian

English
Adjective
Dickian �(comparative more Dickian, superlative most Dickian)

Of, pertaining to or resembling the works of author Philip K. Dick or the themes expressed therein. �

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This thread is to discuss Dickian novels, short stories, movies, etc . To start, I suggest two:

1. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin.. I recently finished this novel and I plan to put a 5 star review in a few days.

2. The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem.

You could maybe add Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem.

Hi, I've just started reading The Invincible by Lem. Interesting bit of info re: Dick & Lem

Lem liked Dick's work. Dick thought Lem was a front for a Communist thought control program.

I would also suggest Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem. Really, any of his novels bear a PKD influence. I would also suggest Motherless Brooklyn even though it isn't SF. It reminded me a little of PKD's non SF. Unlike PKD, Lethem managed to successfully make the transition from writing Science Fiction to Literary Fiction. He's a brilliant writer.

He's also a PKD scholar, who edited the three omnibus volumes of PKD's novels put out by Library of America and co-edited the new version of The Exegesis. But you probably already know that.

David wrote: "I would also suggest Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem...."

That is a great one, and definitely Dickian.

I'll add The Continent of Lies by James K. Morrow. It is one of his early books, and is quite unlike his later work. Very Dickian themes having to do with dreams vs. reality. I really love this one, though it is not much known.

Even weirder than Dick: The Troika by Stepan Chapman. "Beneath the glare of three purple suns, three travelers - an old Mexican woman, an automated jeep, and a brontosaurus - have trudged across a desert for hundreds of years...." Not one of my favorites, but still one of the weirdest books I've ever read. And it did win a PKD award.

The episode "The Schizoid Man" from the TV show The Prisoner, strikes me as phildickian. Number Two uses a double for Number Six in a complex plan to make the Prisoner doubt his own identity.

I think the episode is worth watching anyway: