Philip K. Dick

Palmer Eldritch returns from a distant galaxy with a new drug called Chew-Z, which claims to deliver eternal life. Barney Mayerson confronts questions of loyalty, judgement and love, as well as his own insecurities about his ex-wife. His addictive personality thrusts him in the middle of a mystery as to the true nature of Chew-Z and what it means for the future of the galaxy. Palmer Eldritch is omnipresent throughout the novel as the reader tries to figure out his intentions.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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He offered Hnatt the stack of brown, wrinkled, truffle-skins which served as tender in the Sol system: the only molecule, a unique protein amino acid, which could not be duplicated by the Printers, the Biltong life forms employed in place of automated assembly lines by many of Terra's industries.

They could fly to the Germanies and enter one of Dr Willy Denkmal's E Therapy clinics. Wowie, he thought.

I want you to understand; every now and then this therapy—what do you say?—blasts back. Backfires,' Hnatt said gratingly. 

‘How goes it?’ Denkmal demanded, peering at him. 'Broad, all-inclusive preoccupations?’

It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

Yes, he realized. I’d have gone but at some point I’d have pulled out. Once I had firmly established that they’d give me the job.

‘We all make mistakes,’ the cab said piously. ‘But some of us,’ Barney said, ‘make fatal ones.’

‘Honest,’ Barney said. ‘I believe it. Whatever that is.’

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