Philip K. Dick has, in the years since his death in 1982, supplied the basis for more okay/pretty good science fiction than any other person. Ever. Surprisingly, and unjustly, the man that gave us Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly and Total Recall (among others) is still largely unknown to the general populous. Until now…

Literary hero Jonathan Letham, whose own novel You Don’t Love Me Yet appeared this past March, has edited and republished four of Dick’s novels — The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — in one seminal volume: Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s.

Letham talked about the project on NPR this past weekend, during which time he cited Dick as a major personal influence and discussed the author’s notoriety in the fledging sci-fi scene (”He’s sort of like what Lenny Bruce was to comedy in the 1960s.”) Listen to the full interview.