Review
‘Really excellent entertainment’
Daily Telegraph
‘An elusive and incomparable artist’
Ursula LeGuin
‘My literary hero’
Fay Weldon
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Review
One of the genuine visionaries that North American literature has produced. (
L.A.WEEKLY )
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Paperback
edition.
Book Description
Philip K. Dick is the bestselling author of MINORITY REPORT and BLADE RUNNER.
Product Description
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, which is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch. THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH is, by universal consent, one of his three key novels, and the book in which he first took his perennial interest in the fragile nature of reality to a new level of imaginative intensity.
From the Back Cover
THE STIGMATA HID A SECRET THAT COULD TRANSFORM THE WORLD …
When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch returned from a distant galaxy, he claimed to have brought a gift from mankind. Chew-Z was a drug capable of transporting people into an illusory world, a world they could linger in for years without losing a second of Earth time. For the lonely colonists living out their dreary term on Mars, here was the ultimate trip, a pastime that could deliver immortality and wish fulfilment – a double edged power over time and space.
But in return, Palmer Eldritch exacted a terrible price. He would enter, control and be a god in everyone’s private universe – a universe from which there was no escape, not even death.
“A great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form for the expression of his ideas”
THE INDEPENDENT
“An elusive and incomparable artist”
URSULA K. LEGUIN
“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction”
SUNDAY TIMES
“The most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world”
JOHN BRUNNER
“My literary hero”
FAY WELDON
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About the Author
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
