Note: The book Pink Beam, of which this essay forms a chapter, is primarily intended by the author to be a literary chronology, not a biography. To that end, the book divides Philip K. Dick's writing career into chapters by year. Throughout, the book maintains tight focus on PKD's writing but also chronicles, in parallel, his works as they are published and consequential effects on him. Woven into the narrative is extensive and enlightening correspondence between PKD and his agents, publishers and friends, as well as how his health and personal circumstances affected his writing. It was in November of this year that PKD's assertion that he was a writer, and an SF one at that, was legitimized by the acceptance by F & SF of his first work, Roog. (Source: PV1) In order left-to-right, stories covered in this chapter:

Gather Yourselves Together

Roog

Beyond Lies the Wub