Galactic Pot-Healer Paperback - 2022

Name: Galactic Pot-Healer
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Author: Dick, Philip K,
ISBN: 9780547572642

by Philip K. Dick

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The Glimmung is a mysterious alien, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In this hilarious Philip K. Dick novel, it recruits a disparate group of humans and aliens to help it raise a ruined temple from the bottom of the ocean.

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Summary

A powerful and enigmatic alien recruits humans and aliens to help it restore a sunken cathedral in this touching and hilarious novel.

Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowman’s Planet. Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at pot-healing—repairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowman’s Planet, things start to go awry. Told as only Philip K. Dick can, Galactic Pot-Healer is a wildly funny tale of aliens, gods, and ceramics.

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A powerful and enigmatic alien recruits humans and aliens to help it restore a sunken cathedral in this touching and hilarious novel.

Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowman's Planet. Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at pot-healing--repairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowman's Planet, things start to go awry. Told as only Philip K. Dick can, Galactic Pot-Healer is a wildly funny tale of aliens, gods, and ceramics.

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[headline] A far-out alien farce that could only come from the mind of Philip K. Dick.

Sometimes even gods need help. In "Galactic Pot-Healer "that god is an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy to Plowman s Planet. Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at pot-healing repairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowman s Planet, things start to go awry. Is the Glimmung good or evil? Are Joe and his friends helping to save Plowman s Planet or destroy it? Told as only Philip K. Dick can, "Galactic Pot-Healer "is a wildly funny tale of aliens, gods, and ceramics.

PHILIP K. DICK (1928 1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels and is considered one of the most visionary authors of the twentieth century. His work is included in the Library of America and has been translated into more than twenty five languages. Eleven works have been adapted to film, including "Blade Runner" (based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"), "Total Recall," "Minority Report," and "A Scanner Darkly.""

Details

Title Galactic Pot-Healer
Author Philip K. Dick
Binding Paperback
Edition Reissue
Pages 192
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Mariner Books Classics, New York, NY
Publication date 2022-10-11
ISBN 9780547572642 / 0547572646
Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Life on other planets
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012040356
Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) wrote 121 short stories and 45 novels and is considered one of the most visionary authors of the twentieth century. Eleven works have been adapted to film, including Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly.