The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip K. Dick
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—invasion story
- Time of Work: The twenty-first century
- Setting: Earth, the Moon, Mars, and Ganymede
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Twenty-first century, Drugs, Earth, Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs, Mars, Moon or moons, Hallucinogens, Jupiter
- Locales: Earth, Mars, Moon, Jupiter
The Plot
Barney Mayerson wakes up in New York City lying next to his new assistant, Roni Fugate, not knowing where he is. His suitcase- sized, computerized psychiatrist, Dr. Smile, explains that he and Roni work as precogs for P. P. Layouts, a company owned by Leo Bulero. Their job is to predict what items will become popular in the near future for the Perky Pat sets. These sets are miniature layouts that the Mars colonists “enter” after ingesting the hallucinogenic drug Can-D, also sold by Bulero’s company. Can-D allows the ingester to access the imaginary suburban world...
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