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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Published 1965 by Doubleday · 278 pages
Nebula · 1966
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Philip K. Dick
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7 award entries · 6 books · 1 wins · 1963–1983
Synopsis
In a future where miserable Mars colonists escape reality through the drug Can-D, the mysterious entrepreneur Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar voyage with a rival hallucinogen, Chew-Z, that may grant genuine godlike power over shared reality. Corporate fixer Leo Bulero and precognitive analyst Barney Mayerson are drawn into a nightmarish struggle where the boundaries between drug-induced fantasy and reality dissolve completely.
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