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Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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A delightfully trippy headtrip into a future that in all its essentials resembles the present
In the future, when we've trashed this planet, we'll send off all the undesirables out into space, where they can eke out a miserable existence in the solar colonies.Then, in order to give them something to live for, keep them drugged-out on a fantasy high where they can pretend they live a life of luxury as Perky Pat and her perfect male companion, with an insatiable need for ever more accessories.In effect, when there's no longer hope of living out the "American dream" on Earth, and no longer any room for the traditional neat houses in a row with green lawns and picket fences where the idealized heterosexual couples can make babies and make money and get stuff ... when there's no way to live that dream anymore in the real world, all it will take is for the titans of industry to transplant that dream into a virtual space, manufacturing desires and creating the virtual products that are tailor made for those desires.

Phillip K. Dick's imagined future is in fact just a virtual mirror image of contemporary life, that depicts in its trippy way what Phillip K. Dick sees as the competing gods of the modern world: consumerism and the ideal of technological advance that makes man into an addendum of the machine and sends us into outer space as we render our own planet uninhabitable.In an inversion of the idea that religion is an opium for the masses, here we have the drug that directly delivers the experience of a heaven on earth (or on Mars), where we can all live together as happy heterosexual couples in dream houses and crime-free communities.Can-D, the drug whose use sustains the need for Perky Pat layouts and accessories, can be thought of like the internet and radio and television.We buy the radios and tv's and computers because we want the experiences they deliver, but they sell them for cheap because an integral component of that experience is the advertising that convinces us we need even more in order to be happy.We need to lose weight and look more like the perky Barbie and Ken models on tv; we need to stock our pantries with tasty morsels that will virtually ensure that we won't look like Barbie or Ken; we need to have a better car and a bigger house and more stuff to fill it with; and to do that we need a better job with more money and more credit so we can afford the stuff that will make our dead-end jobs bearable at the end of the day.The "pre-fash" pre-cogs of Phillip K. Dick's future can be thought of like the marketing consultants who aim to find out how to create products whose success will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Into this world enters Palmer Eldritch, someone (or something?) with motives other than mere acquisition, and who therefore appears as something different than an ordinary mortal.At first he seems like he's offering a better version of more of the same, but he turns out to be delivering something else entirely.The dream he delivers contains within itself the marks of its author, and the marks that it is nothing but a dream, and nevertheless one from which it is impossible to escape.That's when we really enter the rabbit hole in this wildly entertaining and twisted mindtrip of a narrative.It's heady stuff, exploring the meaning of God, the universe, freedom, love, and the American dream, in the context of a bizarre and inventive and readable story that could only emanate from the mind of Phillip K. Dick.This is among my favorites of his many excellent novels.Highly recommended.

Trippy???
Can a book mimic the effect of a drug experience? I don't know. I don't have enough experience with hallucinogens. But, I would probably guess not. However, "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" certainly induces some kind of altered state in its readers. Reality keeps shifting, changing like a bunch of Russian nesting dolls - one world inside another inside another. I think this is Phil's best work (though I have yet to read Valis). I don't know if I would make it my first PKD book, however. You might want to read some others to get acclimated to his style of reality-bending. "Time Out of Joint" and the classic "Ubik" might be good points of departure.

SF genius
One of his best.PKD was huge in Europe in the 70's,while barely known in the US.He was star status there.My brother, who has lived in France for 40 years, corresponded with him and met him in the early '70s.According to PKD, "Valis" was actually a more-or-less true story.He said that one day he woke up and saw ancient Rome overlaying his life in Orange Co., CA.Also said that he wrote most of his books in 1 sitting, as much as 3 days straight without sleep.Speed, of course, was involved.That's the reason that I find most of his books are weak in the end.Still, what a classic mind.Too bad he never got the recognition here that he deserved.

Can-D or Chew-Z: Choose Your Way Out!
Last year I've attended a seminar on "Philosophy & Sci-Fi" and was delighted when PKD was chosen the first author to discuss. I plunge into reading and re-reading his works.
Obviously the second step of my renewed PKD-mania is to produce new reviews!

"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (1965) is a magnificent cogitation about reality and ultimate sense of life packaged in a great sci-fi novel.


The backdrop of the story shares some traits with other ones dear to PKD: forced draft to colonize the Solar System; Earth turning inhabitable (here by heat rising); universal authoritarian government; some kind of shared near religious experience; however no androids show up.

This book, as each of PKD's novels, is unique, captivating and full of action, moral and ethical issues. Characters are not heroes, just human beings doing their best to survive in a hostile environment. They may be selfish and even despicable but within them there is always a spark of altruism trying to emerge.


The story is situated on Earth suffering overheating and forcing UN government to compel people to emigrate as colonist all over the Solar System.
Main characters are Barney Mayerson a pre-cog top executive in P.P. Layouts Company, Leo Bulero head of P.P. Layouts and Palmer Eldritch an interstellar tycoon returning after ten years from Proxima System.

P.P. Layouts legal business is selling miniaturized accessories for a couple of dolls: Perky Pat & Walt. Those miniatures are sold all over the Solar Colonies, as colonists fanatically collect them. Why is this occurring? Well... P.P.L. illegal business is selling Can-D drug that allows consumers to evade from their barren lives and enter for a short period into Perky & Walt's glamour world.

The returning Eldritch menaces Bulero's empire with a new drug, Chew-Z, that allegedly allows eternal welfare, even more, the government will declare this new stuff legal, giving Can-D commerce a mortal blow.

Bulero tries to stop Eldritch but he is outsmarted and drugged with Chew-Z. From here on reality is in doubt for Bulero and Mayerson (who by other route has also consumed an overdose of Chew-Z).


The reader is presented with a maze of realities, temporal lines and crisscrossing interaction amongst the characters.

Do not expect a neat "this is real" or "these are the good guys", that's not PKD style. The reader must compromise with the story and choose its own solution to the puzzle.

As usual with PKD writings an unfathomable melancholic undercurrent traverse the whole story, forcing every character to wonder "why am I here?"

This book is real good. Not only sci-fi fans may appreciate it, general inquisitive public too!
Enjoy!

Reviewed by Max Yofre.

Can-D or Chew-Z, You Choose How to Evade!
I've just attended a seminar on "Philosophy & Sci-Fi" and was delighted when PKD was chosen the first author to discuss. I plunge into reading and re-reading his works.
Obviously the second step of my renewed PKD-mania is to produce new reviews!

"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (1965) is a magnificent cogitation about reality and ultimate sense of life packaged in a great sci-fi novel.


The backdrop of the story shares some traits with other ones dear to PKD: forced draft to colonize the Solar System; Earth turning inhabitable (here by heat rising); universal authoritarian government; some kind of shared near religious experience; however no androids show up.

This book, as each of PKD's novels, is unique, captivating and full of action, moral and ethical issues. Characters are not heroes, just human beings doing their best to survive in a hostile environment. They may be selfish and even despicable but within them there is always a spark of altruism trying to emerge.


The story is situated on Earth suffering overheating and forcing UN government to compel people to emigrate as colonist all over the Solar System.
Main characters are Barney Mayerson a pre-cog top executive in P.P. Layouts Company, Leo Bulero head of P.P. Layouts and Palmer Eldritch an interstellar tycoon returning after ten years from Proxima System.

P.P. Layouts legal business is selling miniaturized accessories for a couple of dolls: Perky Pat & Walt. Those miniatures are sold all over the Solar Colonies, as colonists fanatically collect them. Why is this occurring? Well... P.P.L. illegal business is selling Can-D drug that allows consumers to evade from their barren lives and enter for a short period into Perky & Walt's glamour world.

The returning Eldritch menaces Bulero's empire with a new drug, Chew-Z, that allegedly allows eternal welfare, even more, the government will declare this new stuff legal, giving Can-D commerce a mortal blow.

Bulero tries to stop Eldritch but he is outsmarted and drugged with Chew-Z. From here on reality is in doubt for Bulero and Mayerson (who by other route has also consumed an overdose of Chew-Z).


The reader is presented with a maze of realities, temporal lines and crisscrossing interaction amongst the characters.

Do not expect a neat "this is real" or "these are the good guys", that's not PKD style. The reader must compromise with the story and choose its own solution to the puzzle.

As usual with PKD writings an unfathomable melancholic undercurrent traverse the whole story, forcing every character to wonder "why am I here?"

This book is real good. Not only sci-fi fans may appreciate it, general inquisitive public too!
Enjoy!

Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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