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I agree with you about Blade Runner, but PKD did write one sort-of series: Valis, The Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (cf http://www.philipkdick.com/covers/valis_trilogy.jpg )

Certainly there is no need for a sequel here, and I expect that this will be terrible.

I was aware of him from reading about six of his novels in a little high school library on the other side of the planet some time before he wrote "Valis"

Anecdotal

Thus I really think "millions of copies sold worldwide" trumps your "unknown" :)

First, I said "almost unknown" not "unknown". Second, prove it.

I cannot find any references to sales figures for PKD's books, but in his own words (from this interview):

...there is also the very real possibility that if I tried to do the cheapo novelization I would actually fail to do it, literally could not write a commercial novel that would be something that would sell millions of copies

That interview was done in 1981 (a year before he died), "The Man in the High Castle" was published in 1962 and it's one of his most popular and known books. If it had sold "millions of copies ... worldwide", you think he might have known about it. Sure, there's a slim chance it has sold millions since then, but I can't find any evidence of that and we are talking about "while he was alive". It seems you are making things up.

Thus, I really think my "almost unknown" statement (adequately supported, I believe you will find, by PKD's wikipedia entry) and PKD's own words trump your anecdotes and made up figures.

Are you seriously suggesting that Blade Runner (the movie) has nothing to say about "globalized culture and the introduction of advanced technology to culture"? The visualization of the city alone is an incredible (and increasingly prescient) commentary on these subjects.

Are you aware that Philip K Dick, while sadly dying before the final film was complete, saw some early footage and LOVED it? A letter he wrote:

I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program "Hooray For Hollywood" tonight with the segment on BLADE RUNNER. (Well, to be honest, I didn't happen to see it; someone tipped me off that BLADE RUNNER was going to be a part of the show, and to be sure to watch.) Jeff, after looking --and especially after listening to Harrison Ford discuss the film-- I came to the conclusion that this indeed is not science fiction; it is not fantasy; it is exactly what Harrison said: futurism. The impact of BLADE RUNNER is simply going to be overwhelming, both on the public and on creative people -- and, I believe, on science fiction as a field. Since I have been writing and selling science fiction works for thirty years, this is a matter of some importance to me. In all candor I must say that our field has gradually and steadily been deteriorating for the last few years.Nothing that we have done, individually or collectively, matches BLADE RUNNER. This is not escapism; it is super realism, so gritty and detailed and authentic and goddam convincing that, well, after the segment I found my normal present-day "reality" pallid by comparison. What I am saying is that all of you collectively may have created a unique new form of graphic, artistic expression, never before seen. And, I think, BLADE RUNNER is going to revolutionize our conceptions of what science fiction is and, more, can be.

Let me sum it up this way. Science fiction has slowly and ineluctably settled into a monotonous death: it has become inbred, derivative, stale. Suddenly you people have come in, some of the greatest talents currently in existence, and now we have a new life, a new start. As for my own role in the BLADE RUNNER project, I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are justified and completed by BLADE RUNNER. Thank you..and it is going to be one hell of a commercial success. It will prove invincible.

Cordially,

Philip K. Dick

(Source: http://www.philipkdick.com/new_letters-laddcompany.html)

So as another Philip K Dick fan (and yes I've read Androids), if you want to say the movie isn't as good as the book, fine (an incredibly boring & obvious statement, but fine). But calling it terrible? Something the author himself described in transcendant terms, as a new birth for the genre, and as justifying his life's work? Philip K Dick would punch you in the face, "fanboy".

My question is, "was the prediction oriented around the Intersection, or from the Vehicle?" If it was the Vehicle, that's useful.

Also, I believe that "pre-crime" was the creation of Philip K. Dick.

As for the essence of human predation, who is more dangerous? The one that pillages, or the one that allows toxic waste to enter the community food chain, or the one that does not return the favor of helping the community when the community helped that person, or the one that would create laws that prevent others from being as successful?

Both of which were written by the same author: Philip K. Dick.

Just sayin'...

Uh,

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

Is the book which the movie _Bladerunner_ was (loosely) based on. Moreover, _A Scanner Darkly_ was filmed in 2006. (Compleat list of films based on his works here: http://www.philipkdick.com/films_intro.html )

I'm also not that wild about the Library of America Editions --- are they still setting _everything_ in Galliard? While I like that typeface, it's a bit too strong stylistically, esp. the italics, for such lengthy texts IMO.

William

Wiki has a list of Bradbury 6 adaptations to other media. There's a whole Movies and Films based on works by Philip K. Dick site. I count 7 theatrical releases based on RB, vs. 9 for PKD and 2 more in production. This doesn't count miniseries...miniserieses? or other TV adaptations.

In fact, to reply to my own post... I just found this list of PKD works that have been translated into films.

... along with a dearth of stories

That should read "along with a wealth of stories."

... along with a dearth of stories

That should read "along with a wealth of stories."

"Time Out of Joint" Purchased by Warner Bros.

"Valis", "Radio Free Albemuth", and "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said" Purchased by independent producer John Alan Simon

properties under option: "Adjustment Team" - Short Story, "Ubik" - Novel, "King of the Elves - Short Story

After reading more than a few of PKD's books and short stories really I'm surprised that Hollywood isn't more obsessed with PKD than they are now. In my opinion, the Science Fiction genre is tired and overdone in very predictable ways. PKD's works are often further out there. I realize that A Scanner Darkly was probably not the most well received movie but I would predict that Dick's use of a sort of confusion/resolution while tackling the standard moral/ethical dilemmas that are the hallmark of SciFi would be an easy option to keep movies "fresh." Of course, I've been wondering the same thing about Stanislaw Lem for quite some time. Aside from Solaris he seems to be relegated to fringe movies like Ari Folman's adaptation of Lem's The Futurological Congress .

Recently I finished Chuck Palahniuk's Rant and went searching online for more details as I was generally confused about who was a Historian and who was not at the end of the novel. What I found was that he's making it into a trilogy and that the rights to his books as movies are generally bought right after he finishes a book. He says:

We’ve had a bunch of negotiations for Rant. It’s going to be the first of three books on the same sort of theme and the movie production people want to see at least outlines on the next two books in the series because nobody wants to buy the rights of the first of three and not be able to control the rights to the second and third books. So I really have to sell Rant as a three-book package. So once I’m able to present those people with a product outline for the next two books, then we’ll sell.

So I'm guessing that Fight Club was such a huge money maker and gained mainstream respect that some of his more gritty novels are now premium movie material? Or perhaps he's not too picky on the size of the sum when his story is about to made into a movie?

There's not a lot of data out there on how much these rights sell for I guess so you can't say whether or not PKD's Trust is just underrating them as pulp scifi and selling them low cost. Combine that possibility with the fact that he's had some huge movies come from his books and I think Hollywood is finally beginning to understand. With Dick you finally have the technology to represent his dreams on screen along with a dearth of stories along with a public tired of your predictable plots along with the possibility that PKD's trust wants PKD to be appreciated on the silver screen. Lord knows that if I was a member of PKD's family I would love to see the young people of today enjoy his works as much as the young people of yesterday did.

"Time Out of Joint" Purchased by Warner Bros.

"Valis", "Radio Free Albemuth", and "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said" Purchased by independent producer John Alan Simon

properties under option: "Adjustment Team" - Short Story, "Ubik" - Novel, "King of the Elves - Short Story

After reading more than a few of PKD's books and short stories really I'm surprised that Hollywood isn't more obsessed with PKD than they are now. In my opinion, the Science Fiction genre is tired and overdone in very predictable ways. PKD's works are often further out there. I realize that A Scanner Darkly was probably not the most well received movie but I would predict that Dick's use of a sort of confusion/resolution while tackling the standard moral/ethical dilemmas that are the hallmark of SciFi would be an easy option to keep movies "fresh." Of course, I've been wondering the same thing about Stanislaw Lem for quite some time. Aside from Solaris he seems to be relegated to fringe movies like Ari Folman's adaptation of Lem's The Futurological Congress .

Recently I finished Chuck Palahniuk's Rant and went searching online for more details as I was generally confused about who was a Historian and who was not at the end of the novel. What I found was that he's making it into a trilogy and that the rights to his books as movies are generally bought right after he finishes a book. He says:

We’ve had a bunch of negotiations for Rant. It’s going to be the first of three books on the same sort of theme and the movie production people want to see at least outlines on the next two books in the series because nobody wants to buy the rights of the first of three and not be able to control the rights to the second and third books. So I really have to sell Rant as a three-book package. So once I’m able to present those people with a product outline for the next two books, then we’ll sell.

So I'm guessing that Fight Club was such a huge money maker and gained mainstream respect that some of his more gritty novels are now premium movie material? Or perhaps he's not too picky on the size of the sum when his story is about to made into a movie?

There's not a lot of data out there on how much these rights sell for I guess so you can't say whether or not PKD's Trust is just underrating them as pulp scifi and selling them low cost. Combine that possibility with the fact that he's had some huge movies come from his books and I think Hollywood is finally beginning to understand. With Dick you finally have the technology to represent his dreams on screen along with a dearth of stories along with a public tired of your predictable plots along with the possibility that PKD's trust wants PKD to be appreciated on the silver screen. Lord knows that if I was a member of PKD's family I would love to see the young people of today enjoy his works as much as the young people of yesterday did.

"Time Out of Joint" Purchased by Warner Bros.

"Valis", "Radio Free Albemuth", and "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said" Purchased by independent producer John Alan Simon

properties under option: "Adjustment Team" - Short Story, "Ubik" - Novel, "King of the Elves - Short Story

After reading more than a few of PKD's books and short stories really I'm surprised that Hollywood isn't more obsessed with PKD than they are now. In my opinion, the Science Fiction genre is tired and overdone in very predictable ways. PKD's works are often further out there. I realize that A Scanner Darkly was probably not the most well received movie but I would predict that Dick's use of a sort of confusion/resolution while tackling the standard moral/ethical dilemmas that are the hallmark of SciFi would be an easy option to keep movies "fresh." Of course, I've been wondering the same thing about Stanislaw Lem for quite some time. Aside from Solaris he seems to be relegated to fringe movies like Ari Folman's adaptation of Lem's The Futurological Congress .

Recently I finished Chuck Palahniuk's Rant and went searching online for more details as I was generally confused about who was a Historian and who was not at the end of the novel. What I found was that he's making it into a trilogy and that the rights to his books as movies are generally bought right after he finishes a book. He says:

We’ve had a bunch of negotiations for Rant. It’s going to be the first of three books on the same sort of theme and the movie production people want to see at least outlines on the next two books in the series because nobody wants to buy the rights of the first of three and not be able to control the rights to the second and third books. So I really have to sell Rant as a three-book package. So once I’m able to present those people with a product outline for the next two books, then we’ll sell.

So I'm guessing that Fight Club was such a huge money maker and gained mainstream respect that some of his more gritty novels are now premium movie material? Or perhaps he's not too picky on the size of the sum when his story is about to made into a movie?

There's not a lot of data out there on how much these rights sell for I guess so you can't say whether or not PKD's Trust is just underrating them as pulp scifi and selling them low cost. Combine that possibility with the fact that he's had some huge movies come from his books and I think Hollywood is finally beginning to understand. With Dick you finally have the technology to represent his dreams on screen along with a dearth of stories along with a public tired of your predictable plots along with the possibility that PKD's trust wants PKD to be appreciated on the silver screen. Lord knows that if I was a member of PKD's family I would love to see the young people of today enjoy his works as much as the young people of yesterday did.

Are we looking at a future where we not only have to download updates to fix bugs in our applications and operating systems, but our hardware as well?

No, it is all about updating your wetware, and It has been anticipated that things will be much worse a long long time ago.

CC.

Hollywood has certainly taken a shine to Dick's work: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, Impostor, Screamers and Next have all been based on his short stories or novels.

Don't forget Paycheck and Confessions d'un Barjo ("Confessions of a Crap Artist"). As a longtime Dick fan it humors me to see his works start to explode into movies post-2000. Adding to the truth that an artist is never appreciated until he/she is dead.

The same producer (John Alan Simon) that made the purchase of "Flow My Tears" also purchased the rights to "VALIS" & "Radio Free Albemuth." These last two books are strangely related to The Man in the High Castle (kinda sequel-ish) and he may be thinking of merging the two stories into one movie?

It's also worth mentioning that "Time Out of Joint" rights have been purchased by Warner Bros.

Unfortunately for me, these movies are not really my cup of tea. Total Recall was pretty good when I was 12 ... never going to rewatch that again though. I didn't even find Blade Runner that great and honestly haven't bothered to watch Minority Report, Next or Paycheck. I got Scanner Darkly but just because it was more independent than the others. I just have an opposite opinion from the get-all-excited-it's-gonna-be-great folks I guess.

The Penultimate Truth, by Philip K Dick, seems to be a spooky but poignant vision of a possible future:

http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_penultimat e.html

I suspect Phillip K. Dick was a time traveller who escaped into the past to try and warn us.

But
We
Just
Won't
Listen

i know it's fashionable and noble to take any opportunity to denounce someone's drug use, but fact is, phil had more issues than a newsstand. Go read VALIS...

the flip side of your coin is maybe the mainstream would make better visionaries if they tried a dangerous chemical now and then besides alcohol, tobacco, the atmosphere, and the opiate of the masses...

sorta like the philip k. dick android that, ironically enough, seems to have escaped from the grasp of its makers...

Philip K. Dick.

UBIK?

Post SCO door locks? Quote: "Joe Chip, in Ubik, is threatened with a lawsuit by his own front door, to whom he owes money".

YES.

CC.

What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people?

Reminds me of the scramble suits worn by narcotics agents in Phillip K. Dick's excellent A Scanner Darkly?

Hmmmmm. . .

[Soon to be a major motion picture too!]

I'm pretty optimistic about the future. I think I may find out, in my lifetime, if androids dream of electric sheep!

I do have a really bad joke on the mind that involves a New Zealander and electric sheep. However I won't share so that I can spare some peoples feelings...

This was the first PK Dick novel: Solar Lottery http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_solar.html

(sorry, the description on this page doesn't explain what this novel is really about. summary of novel: group of dwarfs living in bubble wonder about their artificial environment. turns out they are mutants being bred to colonize venus. not one of his better novels in my opinion, but interesting that he wrote about this.)

All I'm saying is, Gene's been dead for over a decade. Isn't it about time TV stopped making shows from his thirty year-old rough drafts?

This quickly wanders OFF-TOPIC and then drives the highway metaphor into a ditch, but that is because the topic at hand (moronic metaphors) does influence said OFF topic; which is in fact, in a ditch anyway. So mod this thing sKiz0phr3niK (if it ever gets read at all) because I don't know where such a tautological polemic belongs, but the fact that that is precisely what this entry is, helps me to believe that it belongs with the rest of its ilk(see brief excerpt) somewhere on /.. So if your socio-technological imagination rides around in a vintage four-wheel drive vehicle , it's time to get out and lock the wheel hubs for this rocky off-road rant, or if you're used to existential off-roading PKD-style, then take off the seat belt and enjoy banging your head against the roof with every ill-advised turn, ahead.

I'm glad that this issue of broken highway metaphors is finally helping some people realize the flaccidy ... er, fallacy of the driving metaphor to desribe the Internet; although my skeptical side wagers that many of the people now saying the highway metaphor is retarded for access are the same people who defended the metaphor with regards to transit (bandwidth). My point is, let's link this line of thinking back to the Ethernet First Mile bandwidth issue, because the two are not unrelated.

Capacity, capability, culpability, and community are all interdependent with respect to building the rest of the Internet. Contrary to popular mass delusion, as of the end of 2003, the Internet is less than 50% built. It will not be complete until there is free and unfettered Ethernet Everywhere.

As the current stupid "driver license" idea clearly reveals with respect to access, so transit (bandwidth) is not like a highway, either. The Internet doesn't take you somewhere, that was a FICTION work, but many still seem mindfscked into believing that, at least on a subconscious level. (Also mindfsked was the hype about the movie, apparently.)

The Internet is communication, not transportation. The Information Superhighway is perhaps one of the most malevolent memes unleashed on the world since "the most bewitching and insidious work of literature ever written," namely, Brave New World (and I even voted for the True President, Al Gore!). The highway metaphor is the underlying lie that is giving government the idea that it should own our communication infrastructure! Ummm ... didn't we just topple the evil Soviet Empire for doing things like running all state-controlled communications channels? For all his own misplaced highwayisms, our True President Gore did NOT envision a government owned and controlled Internet; but don't tell that to local government control freaks. If a municipality suggested that it own all of the phone, radio, and TV transmission facilities, can you imagine the uproar? But somehow it's a daydream for government to build and own the communications medium that transcends the Old Comms Trinity.

I propose that we get our analogies consistent and make a concerted effort to destroy this Highway to Hell internet metaphor. I'm amazed on a daily basis at the lengths supposedly smart people will go to defe

Similar fact: Some time after his death, Philip Dick's son released Radio Free Albemuth. The site I link to doesn't reference the story that I heard / read (?) about this, that Dick had stipulated that the book was NOT to be published.

At any rate, it is a _fantastic_ book, and really fits as a key part of the Valis 'trilogy'.

astro

If you want to know about dick in his own words read The Shifting Realities of Philip K Dick and/or the essayHow To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later.

Dick was a one of a kind crazy literary genius who is totally underrated. I wish he had lived longer.

I highly recommend any PKD book to anyone who wants to get an open mind and science fiction like no other. Don't make a judgement on him based on the movies you have seen that are based on his writings, namely Blade Runner, Total Recall, & Minority Report. The only one that came close to doing him justice was Blade Runner, but it fell far short in my opinion but is a good movie in its own right.

http://www.philipkdick.com/frank/sf-letter.htm

Then again, I think I would be hard pressed to call something like "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer" SciFi ;)

Also here's the skepdic entry for electronic voice phenomenon.

If anyone is really interested in PKD (on of my favorite authors) they can check out this great PKD fan site.

If you like what you see, get a copy of "A Scanner Darkly," you won't regret it.

"We're subject to the logic of a religious crank, an old man who picked up a screwball cult in Chicago in the 'thirties. We're in his universe, where all his ignorant and pious superstitions function."

"Is there essentially one matrix world from which people derive differing perceptions? So that the world you see is not the world I see?"

" ... multiple police agencies conducting simultaneous wiretaps must not learn of one another ..."

Hoo-boy, this is going to lead to some interesting cases of mistaken identity ...!

Makes me think of PKD's A Scanner Darkly ...

Sorry you are too late, this has already happened back in 1999.
Here is a link to one of the articles

Somebody defined reality once as that which does not go away when you stop believing in it...

I have to pitch in and give credit to the late, great Philip K. Dick. I believe the quote is documented in some of his essays; The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick. I think it was something he originally said in a speaking engaement somewhere.

Do yourself a favor and read him. He's introduced me to an insanely interesting future. I suggest you start with VALIS to jump right in and see how strange he is.

Dick won the Hugo award for best SF novel for The Man In The High Castle

Somebody defined reality once as that which does not go away when you stop believing in it...

I have to pitch in and give credit to the late, great Philip K. Dick. I believe the quote is documented in some of his essays; The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick. I think it was something he originally said in a speaking engaement somewhere.

Do yourself a favor and read him. He's introduced me to an insanely interesting future. I suggest you start with VALIS to jump right in and see how strange he is.

Dick won the Hugo award for best SF novel for The Man In The High Castle

Minority Report, Imposter, Screamers, Blade Runner, Total Recall and more all came from Philip K Dick shories, so we can note that he is the leader in some objective way.
This is probably because Phil Dick had more ideas per paragraph than most Sci-Fi authors entire books. His writing style is raw and unvarnished (and often not quite completed) so some people have a difficult time "getting it". His best stuff are his short stories; after reading his entire works you may agree with me that he was in one way the best Sci-Fi writer of them all.

i wonder if this technology could be adapted to make a device that prevents digital cameras / dv cams from making out youtr details. I mean if the army is going to go around videotaping civillians at protests then protesters need a way to fight that. something along the lines of a scramble suit but lowertech.

My recommendations reflect my reading biases. I like sci-fi that:
Expands our concept of what is possible.
Uses non-contempory settings, or alien worlds to allow the author to explore societies and individuals without the encumbrance of researching a real culture or history. (Speculative fiction)

That said, gadget heavy sci-fi, and sci-fi that relies on mystery and thriller techniques for it's tension, annoys me.

I'll recommend:

Anything by Arthur C Clark(Unathorised fan site). Childhood's End, while several decades old, still reads like a shocking new novel.

Almost anything by Ursula LeGuin(Link skips entry page). The Dispossessed Is a classic. She is far towards the speculative fiction end of the genre.

Philip K Dick is responsible for the short stories behind some of the more interesting sci-fi movies. Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, to name a few. The short stories behind them, of course, have much more substance. I've just read Ubik which left me dizzy for a week

This is an excerpt from a comic by Robert Crumb, Weirdo #17.

quoting:
"It is an interesting graphic interpretation of a series of events which happened to Dick in March of 1974. He spent the remaining years of his life trying to figure out what happened in those fateful months. "

IMO, a must-read for anyone who enjoys Dick's work.

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If you're looking to beef up your intelligence services, Reinhard Gehlen is the NAZI for you! He's the NAZI that can make those commie bastards talk! He comes with a vast cache of intelligence documents on the USSR compilled by the pain-staking tourture and interrogation of red commie-bastard prisoners. Why do your own legwork when it's already been done for you?!! This man would be a great addition to any spy agency, and a sterling influence upon your junior agents!

If you're a US presidential candidate, and want to ensure that you crush your ineffectual, peanut-farming Democratic competitor, Heinrich Rupp is the NAZI for you! With strong ties to the Arab community, he can manage complex three-cornered schemes that will ensure that those hostages aren't released while there's a Democrat in the Oval Office. As a bonus, you can use the proceeds to fund anti-communist fascists in Central America.

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(One of our most notorious NAZI s now works for Microsoft where he continues to commit crimes against humanity.)

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We've got big name NAZI super-scientists like Wernher von Braun, who single-handedly built the US space program when we couldn't get even a mouse into space without blowing up on the pad! And don't you believe those who would cast aspersions on his character! He used concentration camp slave labor to build his V1s & V2s that he blew up innocent Londoners with!

If you're looking to beef up your intelligence services, Reinhard Gehlen is the NAZI for you! He's the NAZI that can make those commie bastards talk! He comes with a vast cache of intelligence documents on the USSR compilled by the pain-staking tourture and interrogation of red commie-bastard prisoners. Why do your own legwork when it's already been done for you?!! This man would be a great addition to any spy agency, and a sterling influence upon your junior agents!

If you're a US presidential candidate, and want to ensure that you crush your ineffectual, peanut-farming Democratic competitor, Heinrich Rupp is the NAZI for you! With strong ties to the Arab community, he can manage complex three-cornered schemes that will ensure that those hostages aren't released while there's a Democrat in the Oval Office. As a bonus, you can use the proceeds to fund anti-communist fascists in Central America.

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A Scanner Darkly is my all time favorite PHD novel, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Just a thought.

Great, it wasn't bad enough Hollywood and the Austrians were ripping off Philip K. Dick, now the Scientologists are getting into the act?

Bah. At least it's not Travolta!


Troll? Or just an amazing fascimile?

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-Don

The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch

Corporate intrigue, radical psychics and reality-bending drugs all figure prominetly into The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch. In a not too distant future the spiritual activity of interstellar colonists is controlled by P.P. Layouts, a company owned by Leo Bulero. Legally P.P. Layouts sells minituarized homes, accessories and dolls that colonists collect like gold. Coupled with the illegal drug Can-D (of which Bulero's company has a monopoly), it allows the colonists the group experience of inhabiting the minds of Perky Pat and her boyfriend. For this period of time, they are allowed to live out their earthly fantasies denied to them by the loneliness of space.

When Palmer Eldritch, an exiled businessman returns from a far away galaxy with a new (and legal) drug called Chew-Z, Bulero's monopoly is in grave danger. Chew-Z is a drug that claims to deliver eternal life. The book follows P.P. Layouts employee Barney Mayerson as he confronts questions of loyalty, judgement and love. His insecurities about his ex-wife and his own addictive personality thrust him in the middle of a mystery as to the true nature of Chew-Z and what it means for the future of the galaxy. Palmer Eldritch is omnipresent throughout the novel as the reader tries to figure out his intentions. The characters experience profound changes and hallucinations thoughout the book and the question of the true nature of god is addressed as well. The reader is left wondering if God just exists to make a few bucks.

"Perky Pat Paraphernalia" by Steve Young

-Don

The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch

Corporate intrigue, radical psychics and reality-bending drugs all figure prominetly into The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch. In a not too distant future the spiritual activity of interstellar colonists is controlled by P.P. Layouts, a company owned by Leo Bulero. Legally P.P. Layouts sells minituarized homes, accessories and dolls that colonists collect like gold. Coupled with the illegal drug Can-D (of which Bulero's company has a monopoly), it allows the colonists the group experience of inhabiting the minds of Perky Pat and her boyfriend. For this period of time, they are allowed to live out their earthly fantasies denied to them by the loneliness of space.

When Palmer Eldritch, an exiled businessman returns from a far away galaxy with a new (and legal) drug called Chew-Z, Bulero's monopoly is in grave danger. Chew-Z is a drug that claims to deliver eternal life. The book follows P.P. Layouts employee Barney Mayerson as he confronts questions of loyalty, judgement and love. His insecurities about his ex-wife and his own addictive personality thrust him in the middle of a mystery as to the true nature of Chew-Z and what it means for the future of the galaxy. Palmer Eldritch is omnipresent throughout the novel as the reader tries to figure out his intentions. The characters experience profound changes and hallucinations thoughout the book and the question of the true nature of god is addressed as well. The reader is left wondering if God just exists to make a few bucks.

"Perky Pat Paraphernalia" by Steve Young