Publisher 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 users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new, alien 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.In The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick took his perennial interest in the fragile nature of reality to a new level of imaginative intensity.

Notes

A key novel from Philip K Dick, published as part of the SF Masterworks series.

Author Biography

Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was born one of twins - his sister died in infancy. He lived most of his life in California, and wrote more than 50 books in a career of prodigious productivity and achievement.

Review

One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac * Sunday Times *
For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first * Terry Gilliam *
Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise * MICHAEL MOORCOCK *
One of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced * L.A. WEEKLY *

Promotional

Philp K. Dick's reputation as a master of science fiction has grown inexorably since his death in 1982, and he is now recognised as one of the genre's giants. 'The most consistently brilliant sf writer in the world' John Brunner 'He was the funniest sf writer of his time, and perhaps the most terrifying' Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Prizes

Short-listed for Nebula Award 1966 (UK)

Long 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 users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new, alien 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.In The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch , Philip K. Dick took his perennial interest in the fragile nature of reality to a new level of imaginative intensity.

Review Quote

One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac

Promotional "Headline"

Philip K. Dick is the bestselling author of MINORITY REPORT and BLADE RUNNER.

Description for Sales People

Philp K. Dick's reputation as a master of science fiction has grown inexorably since his death in 1982, and he is now recognised as one of the genre's giants.

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