Galactic Pot-Healer (nonfiction)

Commentary on Galactic Pot-Healer.

is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1969. The novel deals with a number of philosophical and political issues such as repressive societies, fatalism, and the search for meaning in life.

Dick also wrote a children's book set in the same universe, Nick and the Glimmung, in 1966. It was published posthumously in 1988.

Commentary

Impoverished hard-luck Everyman pot-healer Joe Fernwright is summoned by the mysterious, god-like Glimmung to raise Heldscalla, an ancient cathedral, from the bottom of an alien ocean in Philip K. Dick's "Galactic Pot-Healer" (1969).

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