The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
As exiles from Earth huddle miserably in Martian colonies, they turn to drugs for comfort. The newest drug claims to deliver the eternal life promised by God. But what kind of eternity? And whoor whatis the deliverer?
As exiles from Earth huddle miserably in Martian colonies, they turn to drugs for comfort. The newest drug claims to deliver the eternal life promised by God. But what kind of eternity? And whoor whatis the deliverer?
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780879978105 (0879978104)
Publish date: March 1st 1983
Publisher: DAW
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't that interesting either. I read this immediately after The Man in the High Castle, so the question of "what is real?" was already a central theme. This book didn't seem to add much to that beyond a spiritual detour. Beyond that, most of the characters have little investm...
Dziwna akcja, dziwne zdarzenia, dziwni bohaterowie. Fabuła - zaskakująca. Okoliczności świata - ponure. Przyszłość – niepewna. A mimo to autor może zastopować akcję w dowolnej chwili i przejść do rozważań religijnych i ontologicznych. Wystarczy pretekst, żeby bohaterowie toczyli ze sobą rozmowy o ...
Don't take "Dick at his strangest" lightly. This one's weird. Not where you would want to start with PKD.
After watching Looper I asked my companion to recommend a Philip K. Dick book to me, and he recommended this one. I have always intended to read PKD but never bit the bullet, and I'm glad that I liked it as much as I hoped I would, and surprised that it reminded me so much of reading Kurt Vonnegut (...
Reading this book felt a bit like dreaming, after a while it became like a dream within a dream, soon after it became like full on Inception!. Without going into the synopsis in any detail (;) this novel features a drug induced virtual reality, initially with the aid of Ken and Barbie-like dolls in ...
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