The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

About The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.

Cover illustration: Chris Moore

  1. Complete Title: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
  2. Format: Paperback
  3. Language: English
  4. Number of Pages: 231
  5. Publication Time: January 1, 2010
  6. Publisher: Gollancz
  7. ISBN: 1407247425
  8. ISBN13: 9781407247427

About Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.

In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.

Reviews The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

User ImageGlenn Russell

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – A Philip K. Dick novel so crazy I found myself laughing out loud on every page. Here are a dozen key ingredients PKD mixes in his hallucinogenic science fiction…

User ImageLyn

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch was the kind of book that Kilgore Trout, the fictional recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut’s novels (based on science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon) would hav…

User ImageLeonard Gaya

Shortly after Martin Luther’s death, the heads of the papal Church, then widely challenged by the Protestant movement, felt the need to beef up their positions on several doctrinal points. In Octobe…

User ImageDarwin8u

“It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.”…

User ImageApatt

Reading this book felt a bit like dreaming, after a while it became like a dream within a dream, soon after it became full on Inception!. Without going into the synopsis in any detail, this novel feat…

User ImageTim

“Choosy Chewers Choose Chew-Z”This is my fourth Philip K. Dick experience… and this one was a trip.How the hell do I review this book? How is it even possible to get across the feeling this book giv…

User ImagePaul Bryant

Unfortunately this suffers from what we may call the Citizen Kane syndrome. (Someone somewhere must have given this thing a proper name.) It’s when a groundbreaking original work of art gets ripped of…

User ImageSara

As usual, Phillip K. Dick has left me with spirally eyes and a whirring brain. I’d like to give a plot summary, but I’ll let someone else do that and egotistically save this space for my own musings:…

User ImageForrest

I don’t know Dick.I’ve read some of his work and enjoyed it. But this was a deep philosophical dive on top of the classic psychological-warping mind games that PKD is famous for. All the tropes are he…

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