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Galactic Pot-Healer
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Title: Galactic Pot-Healer
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Company, New York
Published: 1969
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 148
Catalogs: Science Fiction, Literature, Fiction
Description: First Book Club Edition. Black textured boards with gray text on spine. Dustjacket in good to very good condition, with some dirt and scuffing, and very slight crushing to spine ends. Illustrated on both front and rear covers. Pages are unmarked. This hardcover book club edition followed the first paperback edition. The novel follows Joe Fernwright, an unemployed pot-healer on a bureaucratic future Earth, who is recruited by the alien being Glimmung to help raise the sunken cathedral Heldscalla on Sirius 5. The plot combines comic and surreal adventure with questions of fate, failed creation, and the value of effort when success is uncertain. Critics have often read the novel through Joe's craft, the Book of the Kalends, and Glimmung's divided nature, emphasizing themes of repair, prediction, agency, allegory, and spiritual crisis. Contemporary reviews were mixed, and later critics have generally treated the book as neglected and uneven but significant within Dick's fiction. This novel belongs to Philip K. Dick's (1928-1982) late-1960s work concerned with predetermination and dualistic conflict. Hardcover, very good condition. 148 pages, octavo.
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Company, New York
Published: 1969
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 148
Catalogs: Science Fiction, Literature, Fiction
Description: First Book Club Edition. Black textured boards with gray text on spine. Dustjacket in good to very good condition, with some dirt and scuffing, and very slight crushing to spine ends. Illustrated on both front and rear covers. Pages are unmarked. This hardcover book club edition followed the first paperback edition. The novel follows Joe Fernwright, an unemployed pot-healer on a bureaucratic future Earth, who is recruited by the alien being Glimmung to help raise the sunken cathedral Heldscalla on Sirius 5. The plot combines comic and surreal adventure with questions of fate, failed creation, and the value of effort when success is uncertain. Critics have often read the novel through Joe's craft, the Book of the Kalends, and Glimmung's divided nature, emphasizing themes of repair, prediction, agency, allegory, and spiritual crisis. Contemporary reviews were mixed, and later critics have generally treated the book as neglected and uneven but significant within Dick's fiction. This novel belongs to Philip K. Dick's (1928-1982) late-1960s work concerned with predetermination and dualistic conflict. Hardcover, very good condition. 148 pages, octavo.
