The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick: 1972-1973 is a volume in the selected letters series published by Underwood Books. At 423 pages, it is the largest volume in the series, reflecting the extraordinary volume and intensity of Dick's correspondence during this pivotal period.
The book opens with a comprehensive bibliography of Dick's published novels, beginning with Solar Lottery (1955) and continuing through A Handful of Darkness (1955), The World Jones Made (1956), The Man Who Japed (1956), Eye in the Sky (1957), The Cosmic Puppets (1957), The Variable Man (1957), Time out of Joint (1959), Dr. Futurity (1960), Vulcan's Hammer (1960), The Man in the High Castle (1962), The Game-Players of Titan (1963), The Penultimate Truth (1964), Martian Time-Slip (1964), The Simulacra (1964), Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), and Dr. Bloodmoney, among others.
The years 1972-1973 were among the most dramatic in Dick's life: the mysterious break-in at his home in San Rafael, his trip to Vancouver for the science fiction convention, his brief period in Canada, his suicide attempt, his entry into the X-Kalay drug rehabilitation program, and his eventual relocation to Orange County, California. These letters provide essential primary documentation of one of the most turbulent and transformative periods in Dick's life.