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Phillip K Dick
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Publisher | Gollancz | ||
ISBN | 978-057507997 | ||
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Gareth
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Synopsis
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 user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new 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.
Review
More hallucinatory than his other novels; this travels along the same lines as "A Scanner Darkly" and "Minority Report". Published at the same time as JG Ballard's "The Terminal Beach"; Burrogh's "Naked Lunch" and Brian Aldiss' "Grey Beard" this helped science fiction discover its roots as well as pave the way forward for the new generation.
In fact, "Stigmata" is one of the more philosophical works of Dick's, covering territory that would be re-visited in more detail in VALIS and UBIK. The narrative is not always easy to follow, and with it's myriad twists and turns can be quite confusing, but it's compelling none the less and well worth the read!
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