"Dark angel of science fiction. Breakdancer upside down on reality's floor. Tortured artist strip-mined by Hollywood for blockbuster movie plots. So many images of Philip K. Dick. And even those images of self he carried in his own mind (alongside, it must be said, an occasional passenger or two, one of whom professed to speak an ancient Greek dialect) cohabited in uneasy alliance, discrete and out of synch, like a 3D movie watched without glasses." (Fantasy & Science Fiction) The 2004 biography, I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick, written by Emmanuel Carrere and translated from French by Timothy Bent, is reviewed. Highlights of Dick's life and literary career are related.