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Galactic Pot-Healer
Philip K. Dick

Galactic Pot-Healer

Philip K. Dick

2013 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 192 pages

FictionScience FictionFiction, science fiction, generalFiction, science fiction, space operaAmerican Science fiction

About this book

Galactic Pot-Healer is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1969. The novel deals with a number of philosophical and political issues such as repressive societies, fatalism, and the search for meaning in life. Dick also wrote a children's book set in the same universe, Nick and the Glimmung, in 1966. It was published posthumously in 1988. The story concerns a man who thanklessly heals pots in a totalitarian future Earth, only to be summoned by a godlike alien known as…

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A patient, character-first epic that asks you to sit with worldbuilding before any payoff arrives. Readers who love long arcs and slow-burn relationships tend to finish it twice; readers chasing momentum often DNF in the first hundred pages. Plan for unhurried evenings.

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An ideas-driven with strong plot, melancholic and immersive read.

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