The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Science Fiction and Fiction.
“A psychedelic odyssey of hallucinationswithinhallucinations from which no reader emerges unscathed.”—Boston Globe On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a deadend existence. Especially when the drug is CanD, which translates its users into the idyllic world of a Barbieesque character named Perky Pat. When t...
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