The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
|---|---|
| Published | 1965 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Philip K. Dick’s 1965 Nebula-nominated novel of colonists who endure an unliveable solar system through a drug that drops them into a shared hallucination — until an industrialist returns from an interstellar trip selling a better one. The most openly theological of his books, with a marketed product in the position usually occupied by a god. |
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in Sci-fi — Must reads, S tier, under Philip K. Dick’s selected works; their case for Dick is that each work contains at least one genuinely new idea told fast. It pairs with Ubik: two novels four years apart about consumer goods that determine what is real.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- a16z — the firm whose infrastructure team curates it.
- Philip K. Dick — the author.
- Ubik — the companion novel, same problem and a different product.
- Historical Futurism — the research lens.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.