PKD

Although he was seldom in an ordinary state of mind, married five times, was the father of three half-siblings, and the author of novels that seemed destined for skiffy obscurity to the vast majority, now Philip Kindred Dick's children work to preserve his work and their heritage. Read all the way to the bottom of the article for the bit about the PKD android that shocked one daughter and then got lost, somehow in mid-air from here to there, and hasn't turned up since. He'd have liked that. Or had an explanation. Or both. A reworked Blade Runner is due for release in October.