Eye in the Sky

It starts innocently enough: A group of tourists are marveling at the invention of a machine called the Bevatron. Suddenly the machine goes haywire (for you gamers out there, imagine the first scene of Half-Life), destroys the walkway high above the machine (where the tourists are) and gravity does the rest. The next part is weird, which in any PKD book world be normal, I guess. The tourists, having been zapped by the Bevatron... Read Full Review

What more could you expect from Philip K. Dick? Even the title "Eye in the Sky" holds different meanings depending upon how you look at it. In this story where religion and reality mutate from one person's mind to the next, we are confronted with the question of what is real. Is the world around us just in our minds? or is it in someone else's mind? A God-fearing zealot? A paranoiac? And, of course, religion comes into it,... Read Full Review

The first few pages of the book set the tone: since Marsha Hamilton challenges the 'reality' as considered by the official authorities (she seems to have ties with communists), she is deemed 'dangerous'. Meanwhile, the main ideas behind the plot clearly make 'Eye in the Sky' a variation on Plato's allegory of the cave: after an explosion at the Belmont bevatron, eight people are knocked uncounscious; as each person slowly... Read Full Review

My favorite PKD book was Time Out of Joint--not any more! This is a tremendous effort and isn't dated in the least. The ideas expressed in here seem to have been written for the US social situation of 1997, not 1957. I think PKD was looking into the future.

By Chance I found this book in a used book store, and i feel blessed... As far as i know it's been out of print forever.... but get them to reprint it, it's worth it. This is a stunning novel, by far Dick's Best..... far better than any of the popular ones (Valis, Do Androids..., A Scanner Darkly,etc.)If you see it, get it......