When businessman Palmer Eldritch returned from a distant galaxy, he brought a gift for mankind - a drug capable of transporting people into an illusory world. For the colonists living out their term on Mars, here was the ultimate trip. But in return, Eldritch exacted a terrible price. From the author of DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
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Philip K Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He attended college for a year at Berkeley. Apart from writing, his main interest was music. He won the Hugo Award for his classic novel of alternative history, ‘The Man in the High Castle’ (1962). He was married five times and had three children. He died in March 1982.
THE STIGMATA HID A SECRET THAT COULD TRANSFORM THE WORLD …
When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch returned from a distant galaxy, he claimed to have brought a gift from mankind. Chew-Z was a drug capable of transporting people into an illusory world, a world they could linger in for years without losing a second of Earth time. For the lonely colonists living out their dreary term on Mars, here was the ultimate trip, a pastime that could deliver immortality and wish fulfilment – a double edged power over time and space.
But in return, Palmer Eldritch exacted a terrible price. He would enter, control and be a god in everyone’s private universe – a universe from which there was no escape, not even death.
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