Jan 4, 2010

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

At a glance:

The Plot

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