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 use of the drug Can-D, which enables the users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new, alien drug Chew-Z, which 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.

Short-listed for Nebula Award 1966 (UK)

“One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Dick made most of the European avant-garde seem like navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac”

Sunday Times
For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first Terry Gilliam
Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise MICHAEL MOORCOCK
One of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced L.A. WEEKLY

Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was born one of twins - his sister died in infancy. He lived most of his life in California, and wrote more than 50 books in a career of prodigious productivity and achievement.

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new, alien drug Chew-Z, which 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.In The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch , Philip K. Dick took his perennial interest in the fragile nature of reality to a new level of imaginative intensity.

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