K W Jetter was a good friend of Philip K Dick, and the character Alex Turbiner had some similarities and might have been based on him! From the review I linked to:
>A sort of Dick-like (in the sense of a largely ignored and prolific author of paperbacks and lover of music) author and idol of McNihil shows up in Turbiner. (Jeter wryly notes that authors were particularly “mean bastards” in regard to copyrights.)
It's ironic and fitting that PKD has been reincarnated as a robot and new versions of his mind and his work have been reconstructed by infringing on his intellectual property rights with machine learning.
>A sort of Dick-like (in the sense of a largely ignored and prolific author of paperbacks and lover of music) author and idol of McNihil shows up in Turbiner. (Jeter wryly notes that authors were particularly “mean bastards” in regard to copyrights.)
It's ironic and fitting that PKD has been reincarnated as a robot and new versions of his mind and his work have been reconstructed by infringing on his intellectual property rights with machine learning.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/sep/14/copyright...
https://www.vox.com/2016/6/1/11787262/blade-runner-neural-ne...
K W Jeter also wrote some authorized sequels to Blade Runner (the movie, not the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._W._Jeter