Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick

Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick is a biography by Paul Williams published by Arbor House in 1986.

Plot summary
Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick is a biography of Philip K. Dick by Williams, who interviewed Dick for Rolling Stone in the 1970s.

Reception
J. Michael Caparula reviewed Only Apparently Real: The World of Philip K. Dick in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer No. 81. Caparula commented that "This is a penetrating portrait of one of the greatest and most influential SF writer of the past thirty years."

Publishers Weekly stated: "The author has done a good job making this complex and unusual man understandable and sympathetic."

Reviews

 * Review by Debbie Notkin (1986) in Locus, #301 February 1986
 * Review by John Clute (1986) in Fantasy Review, June 1986
 * Review by Orson Scott Card (1986) in Worlds of If, September-November 1986
 * Review by Don D'Ammassa (1986) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #86 November 1986