Em 1986, Asimov escreveu uma introdução à história de Dick sobre o
I never met Philip Dick, but I heard that, at least early in his career, he experimented with what some people call “mind-expanding” drugs. I found that distasteful.
Em sua autobiografia I. Asimov (escrito em 1990, publicado em 1994), ele se referiu a Dick como um "superstar da ficção científica":
Even in science fiction, awards keep proliferating. There is the Hugo award (given in ever increasing categories) and the Nebula award. In addition, there are awards in the names of dead superstars of science fiction; awards named for John Campbell, Philip Dick, Ted Sturgeon, and so on. Perhaps in time to come there will be an Isaac Asimov award.