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» 19 more 501 Must-Read Books (256) Top Five Books of 2018 (661) SF Masterworks (67) Best Horror Mega-List (202) Books Read in 2011 (168) ORCID Book list (26) Best Horror Books (247) No current Talk conversations about this book. Great ideas, but as usual for PKD, the writing can't support the grandiosity of his vision. ( ![]() I think I need to reread this one, but not sure it would help. Another good one by Philip K. Dick who is always writing about illusion and reality. Taí um livro que honra o epíteto weird-fiction, um livro estranho, com personagens com tons de paródia mas mesmo assim imprevisíveis (especialmente para mim Leo, o CEO à moda antiga e Ron, a garota sexy ambiciosa), e a paranóia alucinatória das realidades alternativas induzidas por drogas levada ao seu ápice, com direito à confusão entre o divino e a aparição do concorrente palmer eldritch, em um jogo de suposições que torna ainda mais labiríntico sabermos que acontecimentos deveriam contar ou como estes o deveriam, para que os personagens possam navegar suas escolhas. Comentei um pouco mais sobre em meu blogue: https://henriqueiwao.seminalrecords.org/masque-z-vous/ Great concept and ideas, normal Dick style. Prose is whatever, characters are interchangeable, women are inferior. I found this very compelling for a while, but really ran out of steam near the end. Did PKD just not know how to end this?
Next year SF celebrates a fairly significant anniversary. It will be 40 years since JG Ballard published The Terminal Beach , Brian Aldiss published Greybeard , William Burroughs published Naked Lunch in the UK, I took over New Worlds magazine and Philip K Dick published The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch . It was a watershed year, if you like, when SF rediscovered its visionary roots and began creating new conventions which rejected both modernism and American pulp traditions. Perhaps best representing that cusp, Dick's work only rarely achieved the stylistic and imaginative coherence of those other writers. His corporate future came from a common pool created by troubled left-wingers Pohl and Kornbluth ( The Space Merchants , 1953) or Alfred Bester ( The Demolished Man , 1953). His Mars is the harsh but habitable planet of Leigh Brackett ( Queen of the Martian Catacombs , 1949) or Ray Bradbury ( The Martian Chronicles , 1950). His style and characters are indistinguishable from those of a dozen other snappy pulpsters. Even his questioning of the fundamentals of identity and reality is largely unoriginal, preceded by the work of the less prolific but perhaps more profound Charles Harness, who wrote stories such as "Time Trap", "The Paradox Men" and "The Rose" in the 50s. So how has Dick emerged as today's best-known and admired US SF writer? It's hard to judge from this book (which was promoted enthusiastically by me and many others when it first appeared). Belongs to Publisher SeriesDAW Book Collectors (523) J'ai lu (1379) PKD composition order (1964) SF Masterworks (52) — 2 more ハヤカワ文庫 SF (590) Is contained inFour Novels of the 1960s : The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik by Philip K. Dick The Philip K. Dick Collection by Philip K. Dick (indirect) Counterfeit Unrealities (contains Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep [aka Blade Runner], The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch) by Philip K. Dick AwardsNotable Lists
On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence. Especially when the drug is Can-D, which transports its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to God. But in a world where everyone is tripping, no promises can be taken at face value. This Nebula Award nominee is one of Philip K. Dick's enduring classics, at once a deep character study, a dark mystery, and a tightrope walk along the edge of reality and illusion. No library descriptions found.
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