Eye in the Sky (original 1957; edition 2003)

by Philip K. Dick

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Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. HTML:"I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning."�Fantasy and Science Fiction When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious take downs. Eye in the Sky blends the thrills and the jokes to craft a startling morality lesson hidden inside a comedy.… (more)

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JWvdVuurst | Sep 20, 2023 |

Not one of PKD's best.

A group of eight or so people fall through a beam or a positronic ray or something, and must live through the delusional worlds of their fellow victims before they can reach consciousness. There's some fun-poking at anti-communists and the middle class and religious fundamentalists, but it's written more like Twilight Zone fanfic than a classic Philip K Dick mindf*ck. (

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mkfs | Aug 13, 2022 |

Fun book set firmly in Dick's favorite genre - alternate realities. This one shows it's age (1957) in a few places, most noticeably with the women's roles as well as the Cold War paranoia. But overall, a crazy book and a lot of fun to read. (

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KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 |

...and they lived happily ever after. Until they got cancer. (

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stravinsky | Dec 28, 2020 |

I'm on a roll with Dick. I'm undecided as to whether this one is saying anything important, but it is really clever. It manages to do creationism, multiverse AND be a whole lot of fun at the same time.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Philip K. Dick	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Breslow, J. H.	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Carpenter, Steven	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Della Frattina, Beata	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Freas, Kelly	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Jones, Peter A.	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Lans, Carl	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Miller, Dan John	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Moore, Chris	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Walotsky, Ron	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Biblioteca de Ciencia Ficción. Orbis (22)

Colecção Orion (4)

Goldmanns Weltraum Taschenbücher (0123)

PKD composition order (1955)

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Die Welten des Philip K. Dick. Vier berühmte Romane. ( Science Fiction). by Philip K. Dick

La porte obscure by Philip K. Dick

Il disco di fiamma, L'occhio nel cielo, La città sostituita, Vulcano 3 by Philip K. Dick

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Eye in the Sky

Original title

Eye in the Sky

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Original publication date

1957

People/Characters

Jack Hamilton

Marsha Hamilton

T. E. Edwards (Colonel)

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Epigraph

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First words

The proton beam deflector of the Belmont Bevatron betrayed its inventors at four o'clock in the afternoon of October 2, 1959.

Quotations

As he seated himself, the thick, opaque presence of middle-aged businessmen billowed up around him

Was all Heaven just this titanic lake? As far as he could see, there was nothing but lake.
It wasn't a lake. It was an eye. And the eye was looking at him and McFeyffe!
He didn't have to be told Whose eye it was.

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Le Guin, Ursula K.

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English

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Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. HTML:"I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning."�Fantasy and Science Fiction
When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy.
Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious take downs. Eye in the Sky blends the thrills and the jokes to craft a startling morality lesson hidden inside a comedy.

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Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982.
Ουράνιο μάτι / Philip K. Dick · μετάφραση Μαρίνα Λώμη. - Αθήνα : Μέδουσα - Σέλας Εκδοτική, 1993. - 221σ. · 21x14εκ.
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Γλώσσα πρωτοτύπου: αγγλικά
Τίτλος πρωτοτύπου: Eye in the sky
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