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" Galactic pot-healer / "
Philip K. Dick.
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BL
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959516
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b713886
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| Main Entry
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Dick, Philip K.
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Galactic pot-healer /\ Philip K. Dick.
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1st Vintage books ed.
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New York :: Vintage Books,, 1994.
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177 pages ;; 21 cm
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0679752978
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: 9780679752974
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Originally published: Berkley Medallion Books, 1969.
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| Abstract
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The Glimmung wants Joe Fernwright. Fernwright is a pot-healer - a repairer of ceramics - in a drably utilitarian future where such skills have little value. The Glimmung is a being that looks something like a gyroscope, something like a teenaged girl, and something like the contents of an ocean. What's more, it may be divine. And, like certain gods of old Earth, it has a bad temper. What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.
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Science fiction.
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Science fiction.
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813/.54
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PS3554.I3G29 1994
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