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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.… (más)
Su nombre es Joe Fernwright, y es ceramista...en el siglo XXI, cuando la cerámica ha sido completamente desplazada por el hierro y los plásticos. Frustado, desesperado, está al borde del suicidio, cuando un extraño ser de un planeta lejano requiere sus servicios para un cometido grandioso que lo inmortalizará: el resurgimiento de Gestarescala.
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And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, honoured still more That he should seek my hospitality From out the dark door of the secret earth. -- D. H. Lawrence
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His father had been a pot-healer before him.
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'We're not going to book you, Mr Fernwright, although technically you're guilty of a crime against the people.' 'The state,' Joe said; he sat hunched over, rubbing his forehead, trying to make the pain stop. 'Not the people,' he managed to say.
'What is this thing?' he asked the robot, who still stood at the threshold of the workroom. 'You have to say "Willis" first, the robot reminded him. 'You have to say, "Willis, what —"' ... 'You first have to say — aw, the hell with it,' the robot said.
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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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