Eye in the Sky (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip K. Dick
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—inner space
- Time of Work: October 2, 1959, and immediately before and after
- Setting: San Francisco, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Reality, San Francisco, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
The Plot
Jack Hamilton, a bright young engineer; Marsha, his wife; and Charley McFeyffe, their friend, go to witness the testing of a new attachment on the Bevatron, a powerful new atom smasher on which Hamilton has been working. An uncontrolled proton beam slices away the viewing platform, hurling the three of them, their guide, and four tourists through the beam to the floor of the chamber sixty feet below. All are injured and hospitalized, and they recover at different rates.
Jack, Marsha, and Joan Reiss, one of the tourists, are the first to be released. They go to...
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