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Title: Eye in the Sky : A Novel by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 1-4000-3010-2 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a very original piece of early science fiction
Comment: 'Eye in the Sky', written years before Philip K. Dick's golden era (late 1960s/early 1970s), is a forgotten jewel. And it is one of the few novels by the author that might appeal to folks who don't care for science fiction since the story doesn't involve space travel, time travel or aliens.
The clever story involves an accident at a scientific lab where several unconscious folks are absorbed into the minds of another victim who is conscious. So in effect they live in the world of how another person sees it - distorted, bizarre, and often dangerous. Yes, it all sounds a bit daft. And in the beginning I wasn't sure if this story line would hold. But actually the story gets more and more engaging. I think 'Eye in the Sky' should be viewed as one of Philip K. Dick's best works, along with 'Ubik' and 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".
Bottom line: a must read for Philip K. Dick fans (present and future). Recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: SF NOVELS OPUS FIVE
Comment: The 1957 EYE IN THE SKY is one of the first Philip K. Dick's books you should read if you still don't know this american writer. If I'm not mistaken, it was the first time that Philip K. Dick, in a novel, was treating the theme of the virtual realities.
Eight persons, while visiting the Bevatron, the only pure science-fiction element of the novel, are trapped in a time hole after having accidentally been hit by the Bevatron ray. They wake up in a world that at first is pretty much the same than the one they have just left but they soon realize that they are caught in a world entirely created by the phantasms of one of them.
One can like THE EYE OF THE SKY for numerous good reasons such, for instance, as the slight favour of Agatha Christie's " and then they were none " in it, the reader waiting anxiously for the next imaginary world to appear and the clues that will lead him to the identity of the new dreamer's name. One can also appreciate this book for its critique of the late fifties's american society : The Mc Carthy syndrome, the anti-communism paranoïa or the wave of the evangelism don't have the slightest chance under Philip K. Dick's cruel pen.
With this book, PKD revealed himself as the first class writer he will be during the sixties.
A book for a future PKD fan.
Rating: 5
Summary: God, or a giant ego?
Comment: Eye in the Sky is an early Dick novel, first published in 1957, and I think of it as the first and most accessible book in a thematic group on the subject of reality breakdown which also includes The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, and Valis. Sparkling with brilliant humor and memorable characterizations, Eye in the Sky thrusts a group of eight people, lying unconscious after a freak accident in a particle accelerator, into the bizarre alternate universes existing within each other's minds. One of the group, an old war veteran, is a fanatical member of a racist, fundamentalist Islamic cult (was Dick a little bit ahead of his time or what?). In the veteran's reality, religious charms, holy water, and prayers actually work. The hero ascends to heaven on an umbrella, where he finds to his amazement that the universe is geocentric, and God is a gigantic, malevolent eye. That scene fascinated me as a boy when I first read the cheap Ace paperback version (with Valigursky's wonderful cover painting of a huge eyeball) in the late 50s, and over the years I have re-read (and rebought) the book many times. This is a work that breaks boundaries; it conveys a powerful experience that the world as perceived through the senses is a veil of illusion, like the maya of Indian philosophy. Matter is but mind stuff, and even our stable identities are temporary cohesions in the flux. Psychedelic? Definitely. The ending is a bit more upbeat than in some of Dick's other books. After the trip, we are back on dry land. Or so it seems. One can never be fully sure again after reading Eye in the Sky.
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Title: Solar Lottery : A Novel by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 1400030137 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 0375719334 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Cosmic Puppets : A Novel by PHILIP K. DICK ISBN: 1400030056 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Our Friends from Frolix 8 by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 0375719342 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick ISBN: 0375719350 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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