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by Philip K. Dick (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (8 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575074566
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575074569
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 338,355 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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What begins as an ordinary laboratory visit turns into a bizarre and apocalyptic experience when a particle-light beam slices across the visitors' paths, plunging them into different worlds constructed from their innermost dreams and fears. As emergency works scramble to free them from the wreckage, their minds begin an incredible journey through one fantastic shared world after another.

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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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good example of Dick's early work., 7 Dec 2000
This review is from: Eye in the Sky: Collier Nucleus Science Fiction Classic (Paperback)
From the back cover: "...When a telescope's particle-light beam slices across their [visitors to an observatory/laboratory] paths, each one of them enters a dreamlike odyssey that exposes their innermost hopes, dreams, and terrifying dreams..."

The characters are traped in a world where days pass for them, while only minutes pass for their prone bodies in the ruined lab. They come to realise that the reality for all of them is decided by the mind of one, and they go through four worlds, each belonging to a different member of the group. The first two are the most interesting, and the last is the worst--it spells out the idea behind the book: the right to privacy, and to believe whatever you choose to (It is set against Macartyism and the heavilly anti-comunist fealings of the 1950's.).

Enjoyable, fast-paced, and one of Dick's better books from a technical standpoint. A decent starting point for new fans, and for more experienced ones: get it before it goes OOP.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Deconstructing the physical world, 10 Oct 2002
This review is from: Eye in the Sky: Collier Nucleus Science Fiction Classic (Paperback)
The first few pages of the book set the tone: since Marsha Hamilton challenges the 'reality' as considered by the official authorities (she seems to have ties with communists), she is deemed 'dangerous'. Meanwhile, the main ideas behind the plot clearly make 'Eye in the Sky' a variation on Plato's allegory of the cave: after an explosion at the Belmont bevatron, eight people are knocked uncounscious; as each person slowly regains consciousness, they all experience his/her world of opinions and preconceptions. The first is the fanatical, manichean world of an old soldier. The eight characters are akin to Plato's prisoners, both physically (they lie down in the bevatron, numb and motionless) and mentally (they go through successive worlds of unstable appearances). But most of them are prisoners who hope to free themselves from their chains: although some don't mind these subjective worlds at first, they frequently acknowledge the urgent need to wake up and escape this unpredictable cycle. Reading the book, some might come to the conclusion that Dick's point of view is relativist, and that 'reality' seems to take the form of our varying perceptions and thus can't be pinpointed in absolute terms, but I'd argue that he's not satisfied with such an easy way out. Some of the characters certainly aren't: after escaping these subjective worlds of fantasms, they aren't perfectly comfortable with the physical world either and want to change it. In the end, Dick doesn't provide definitive answers as to what reality is, but by challenging preconceived - and mainly physical - notions of reality, this book acts as a detoxifying antidote; the exact same way he described his own work in his Exegesis.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Chilling, thrilling, classic SF, 19 Aug 2003
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Philip Kindred Dick is one of those figures whose writings have earned him a place in the cult hall of fame. In a career that spanned so many years and so many books its a wonder anyone can remember them all. One of Dick's earlier works, Eye in the Sky is a simplified story concerned with Dick's ultimate obsession: the nature of reality. As the characters plunge into the abyss of worlds within worlds and reality as viewed through increasingly insane minds one can see where Dick's work would later lead him.

However, compared to Dick's middle and later works this is a relatively simple tale with the presence of communism and suspicions of communism among its characters reflective of its age. None of which stops it being an engrossing read and more accesible to the general reader than some of Dick's later work.

While hardly a classic among Dick's work it is still more engrossing and exciting than a good deal of SF that's floating around out there. And as with any Dick novel, there's a great deal of philosophical meat to chew on.

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