Galactic Pot-Healer

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Galactic Pot-Healer is a 1969 science-fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Written in 1967–1968 and first published by Berkley Publishing Corporation as a paperback original, the novel belongs to Dick's late-1960s work concerned with predetermination and dualistic conflict. Dick's earlier young-adult novel Nick and the Glimmung shares elements with Galactic Pot-Healer. The novel follows Joe Fernwright, an unemployed pot-healer on a bureaucratic future Earth, who is recruited by the alien being Glimmung to help raise the sunken cathedral Heldscalla on Sirius 5. The plot combines comic and surreal adventure with questions of fate, failed creation, and the value of effort when success is uncertain. Critics have often read the novel through Joe's craft, the Book of the Kalends, and Glimmung's divided nature, emphasizing themes of repair, prediction, agency, allegory, and spiritual crisis. Contemporary reviews were mixed, and later critics have generally treated the book as neglected and uneven but significant within Dick's fiction.

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Tipo

Livro

Lançamento

1 de janeiro de 1969

Gêneros

science fiction

Criado por

Philip K. Dick

Países

United States