Prolific sci-fi author Philip K. Dick already casts a huge shadow over pop culture, with hit movies and TV shows (“Blade Runner,” “Total Recall” and “The Man in The High Castle”) all based on his work.

Amazon’s anthology series, “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,” brings more of Dick’s stories to the small screen.

Helmed by a team of executive producers, including Dick’s daughter, Isa Dick Hackett, Bryan Cranston, Ronald D. Moore (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Michael Dinner (“Justified,” “The Wonder Years”), the 10-episode series is comprised of standalone installments, à la “Black Mirror” on Netflix, with each entry based on one of Dick’s short stories. “To be honest when this idea started, I wasn’t even aware of ‘Black Mirror,’ nor was anybody else,” says Dinner, who also wrote and directed the “Electric Dreams” episode “The Father Thing,” which stars Greg Kinnear in an “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”-type plot.

“Once we started developing [‘Electric Dreams’], I saw the first ‘Black Mirror’ just to see what they were doing. [The shows are] going to be compared because, for a long time, the word ‘anthology’ was a dirty word in television,” he says. “But I think they’re different shows.”

While sci-fi veteran Moore (who’s also worked on “Outlander” and several of the “Star Trek” iterations) might seem like the logical choice to have been the first onboard the production team, that honor actually belongs to Dinner — who was asked to join the series by Isa Dick Hackett (who’s also an executive producer of Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle.”)

“I’ve done a little bit of genre work but I’m not a ‘geek,’ as I say,” says Dinner. “But to me, some of the great genre material has been made by non-genre directors. [Isa Dick Hackett] had seen a number of things I had done and just thought it would be an interesting idea. [Philip K.] Dick is certainly a genre writer — but more than anything else he’s a humanist. So maybe that interested her [about me].”

Dinner then recruited Moore and Cranston. “It’s kind of a loose series of partners,” he says of their interplay. “I invited Ron and Bryan to come play in the sandbox. Ron Moore was the resident geek expert.” Cranston, who also acts in the episode “Human Is,” got involved because he and Dinner both have offices on the Sony lot. The two had frequent conversations about how they should work together, until Dinner eventually invited him to discuss “Electric Dreams.”

Dinner says he feels like he’s coming full-circle in his career — particularly since his “Electric Dream” episode (“The Father Thing”) involves a father-son relationship. “The first television thing I did was ‘The Wonder Years’ for five years,” he says of the ABC sitcom, which aired from 1988-93. “So I looked at this as an opportunity to kind of go back to where I began. I got to examine the ghosts of my past, a little bit.”

His own children — ages 12 and 14 — often ask Dinner to see his material. “And I couldn’t think of anything to show them, whether it was [because of] the language or the violence or the sexuality,” he says. “In some ways, I think I did ‘The Father Thing’ because I could show them this one. It was a Valentine to my kids.

“Or, as Isa Dick Hackett would say, ‘We all have Daddy issues.’ ”

“Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams” Available on Amazon