Philip K Dick - Galactic Pot Healer

General Information
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Title: Galactic Pot Healer
Author: Philip K. Dick
Copyright: 1969
Genre: Audiobook
Abridged: No

Original Media Information
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Source: Warez Forum
Condition: Good

File Information
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Number of MP3s: 8
Total Duration: 5:15:01
Total MP3 Size: 144.29
Parity Archive: Yes
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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From the Inside Flap
What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with
a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has
lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends
positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror,
and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely
Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.


Amazon Reviewer
According to the author's biographer, Laurence Sutin, Dick didn't much
care for this book. I can't imagine why, except that in his more determinedly
resolute moments he may have considered the ending too patly pessimistic.
I agree with Sutin's rating: Pot-Healer is a gem. Rarely for Dick, it
has only a single point-of-view character, the pot-healer (not mender),
stranded in a Stalinist USA of the 2040s, who is somewhat circuitously
approached by the Glimmung - a possibly divine, certainly whimsical
entity of faraway Plowman's Planet. The Glimmung is putting together
a collaborative enterprise of life-forms from around the galaxy in order
to raise a sunken cathedral, and along the way our hero meets with some
spectacular inconveniences, including his own corpse and a book in which
his future (or one of them) is inscribed (possibly), occasionally in
language he can understand. This is one of Dick's funniest and most
enjoyable books, putting a light touch to many of his favourite issues.
It's as packed with energy and invention as any of his more famous works
and, perhaps because of the single point of view, feels more focused
and coherent than many - and this in spite of the fact that its epic
plot and impressive special effects all take place within the space
of less than a hundred and eighty pages.