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.

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.

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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