Galactic Pot-Healer

Philip K. Dick

Victor Gollancz Limited, 2005 - 177 pages

The Glimmung wants Joe Fernwright. Fernwright is a pot-healer - a repairer of ceramics - in a drably utilitarian future where such skills have little value. The Glimmung is a being that looks something like a gyroscope, something like a teenaged girl, and something like the contents of an ocean. What's more, it may be divine. And, like certain gods of old Earth, it has a bad temper. What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.

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User Review  - Steven Bach - Goodreads

I've been in a bit of a PKD rut lately. This book was pretty standard PKD material for the 60s. Immensely creative ideas, great beginning, weak character development, and an ending that kind of got ...

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User Review  - Julie Davis - Goodreads

Latest Update: I'm rereading this preparatory to this weekend's discussion with the SFFaudio podcast gang. I have to say the book definitely warrants two readings. The first time through I was rather ...

About the author

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Galactic Pot-Healer; Gollancz S. F. Series
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz Limited, 2005
• ISBN: 0575074620, 9780575074620
• Length: 177 pages