312 pages
English language
Published Nov. 12, 2002 by G.K. Hall.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.[1]
The novel takes place in 2016. Under United Nations authority, humankind has colonized every habitable planet and moon in the Solar System. Like many of Dick's novels, it utilizes an array of science fiction concepts, features several layers of reality and unreality and philosophical ideas. It is one of Dick's first works to explore religious themes.
Try to imagine how to implement virtual reality during a time when computers do nothing but manipulate text and numbers. Some drugs may be required (by the implementation). Now add Inception-style nested, shared hallucinations. Now imagine the first extrasolar being we encounter is a god who invades Earth via identity sharing.
