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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published by Doubleday, it was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Set largely among colonists on Mars, the novel depicts a society in which users of the hallucinogen Can-D inhabit the shared fantasy world of the Perky Pat layouts. Its plot turns on the return of Palmer Eldritch, a powerful industrialist who introduces the new drug Chew-Z, drawing Leo Bulero and Barney Mayerson into increasingly unstable levels of reality. Critics have read the novel as a hallucinatory dystopia concerned with false or ersatz worlds, religion, evil, and the relation between metaphysics and capitalism. John Clute describes Palmer Eldritch as one of Dick's "God-substitutes", while Darko Suvin treats the book as a major work of Dick's central period in which political and ontological questions are equally at stake. Contemporary reviews were mixed but often struck by the novel's ambition: Algis...
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