Summary
Philip Dick: The Three Stigmas of Palmer Eldritch
Suppliers of the hallucinogenic drug that makes life bearable for the Martian colonists must face a sinister and merciless competitor, Palmer Eldritch, a returnee from interstellar travels.
Philip K. Dick published dozens of novels of almost equal value, and most of them ran through the basic thread of his storytelling: dealing with altered realities. The environments are diverse, from classic space opera, through exotic technological hardware and near-future worlds to exclusively parapsychological environments, but the focus is always on people, often on a few main characters whose fates intertwine in unexpected ways. Palmer Eldritch's Three Stigmas is the most complete, largest, and most humane representation of his gigantic central theme: altered realities. The suppliers of the hallucinogenic drug that makes life bearable for the Martian colonists must face a sinister and ruthless competitor, Palmer Eldritch, a returnee from interstellar travel who has the power to completely suppress reality with illusion.
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