HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Loading...

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

by Philip K. Dick

Other authors: See the other authors section.

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingMentions
4,211692,633 (3.91)82
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.… (more)
  1. 21
    Neuromancer by William Gibson (cammykitty)
    cammykitty: The Three Stigmata to me is a forefather of cyberpunk, with it's internal action that questions existence and God. Neuromancer is often credited as the book that made the genre, so I suggest Neuromancer as an interesting book to compare to The Three Stigmata.… (more)
Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 82 mentions

English (64)  Spanish (2)  French (1)  Italian (1)  Finnish (1)  All languages (69)
Showing 1-5 of 64 (next | show all)
Great ideas, but as usual for PKD, the writing can't support the grandiosity of his vision. ( )
  dogboi | Sep 16, 2023 |
I think I need to reread this one, but not sure it would help. ( )
  rjdycus | Dec 19, 2022 |
Another good one by Philip K. Dick who is always writing about illusion and reality. ( )
  kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
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/ ( )
  henrique_iwao | Aug 30, 2022 |
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?
  Adamantium | Aug 21, 2022 |
Showing 1-5 of 64 (next | show all)
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).
 

» Add other authors (32 possible)

Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Philip K. Dickprimary authorall editionscalculated
Abadia, GuyTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Csernus, TiborCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gudynas, PeterCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mohr, ThomasTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Moore, ChrisCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pelham, DavidCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pennington, BruceCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Weiner, TomNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Williams, PaulAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Awards and honors
Epigraph
I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?
--From an interoffice audio-memo circulated to Pre-Fash level consultants at Perky Pat Layouts, Inc., dictated by Leo Bulero immediately on his return from Mars.
Dedication
First words
His head unnaturally aching, Barney Mayerson woke to find himself in an unfamiliar bedroom in an unfamiliar conapt building.
Quotations
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

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.

Book description
Dick, Philip K., 1928-1982.
Τα τρία στίγματα του Πάλμερ Έλντριτς / Φίλιπ Κ. Ντικ · μετάφραση Χατχούτ, Ρένα, εισαγωγή: Δημήτρης Αρβανίτης. - Αθήνα : Ars Longa, 1986. - 262σ. · 21.5x10.3εκ., Η Ανθολογία της Επιστημονικής Φαντασίας.
gre
Γλώσσα πρωτοτύπου: αγγλικά
Τίτλος πρωτοτύπου: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Doubleday, 1964.
(Μαλακό εξώφυλλο) [Κυκλοφορούν η 2η έκδοση:Parsec, 2008 και η 3η έκδοση: Κέδρος, 2016, Εξαντλημένο]
813.54
Haiku summary
Can-D or Chew-Z
Perky Pat, Palmer Eldritch
All just empty dreams
(amweb)

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: (3.91)
0.5 1
1 9
1.5 3
2 42
2.5 13
3 214
3.5 64
4 412
4.5 35
5 270

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 194,725,905 books! | Top bar: Always visible