Galactic Pot-Healer

Name: Galactic Pot-Healer
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9798894864129

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/16/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Philip K. Dick

Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928–1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, as well as television's The Man in the High Castle. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, including the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and between 2007 and 2009, the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on December 31, 2023

I wonder if Philip K. Dick was familiar with the Q & A: Q: Why do ducks fly over Cleveland upside down? A: There's nothing worth crapping on. I ask since this novel opens in dystopian Cleveland in the year 2046, a futuristic city where absolutely nothing is worth crapping on - it's totalitarian with......more

Goodreads review by mark on April 02, 2024

I've met a certain kind of person a number of times in my life. Cheerful and upbeat, "happy" in their job, "happy" in their personal life, yet dying inside. Maybe they don't know that they radiate sadness despite the cheerful smiles, that the almost desperate happiness that they are trying to portra......more

Goodreads review by P.E. on January 24, 2021

The story of Joe, a penniless pottery and ceramic mender whose main kick in life is playing odd wordgames with remote participants (online?). Unexpectedly, he meets Glimmung, an ancient being endowed with almost boundless powers. Joe is offered to join him and partake in a massive, large-scale enterp......more

Goodreads review by David on July 10, 2024

My 13th PKD novel. I can safely say I absolutely loved the first half - from page one. As for the rest... it's not that I didn't love it; it's that it morphs into a constantly disorienting, über-'Star Trek' episode that would have that show's producers fainting over budget concerns. ~ like they acc......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on February 06, 2021

Surprisingly coherent for Dick. Conspicuously absent are any mind altering drugs or paranoid conspiracies, the story revolving around themes of fatalism, yin & yang/universal balance, depression and the search for meaning in life. Equally profound and thought provoking as it is ridiculous and mind b......more