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Author
Index
D |
Philip
K Dick |
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Title
Index
E |
Eye
in the Sky |
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| Year |
1957 |
| Publisher |
Arrow
Books |
| ISBN |
0090051009 |
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Synopsis
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As
Jack Hamilton
ascended higher
into the
stratosphere, he
could see the
great ball of
Earth spread
beneath him.
And it was
standing
still!
Around it, in an
orbit, swung a
tiny mass of
glowing matter -
the sun. It
was the ancient
geocentric
universe come true
- a universe with
Earth at dead
centre and all
other celestial
bodies subservient
to it.
As he rose
still higher, he
found that he was
peering into a
gigantic lake, a
lake roomy enough
to hold all Earth
without a
ripple. And
then, with a
shocked gasp, Jack
realized that it
wasn't a lake at
all. He was
peering into a
colossal eye - an
eye in the sky.
He was trapped
in someone else's
personal
world. A
someone who seemed
not very
sane. A
world of
fundamental
religion, ruled
over by a crude
version of an Old
Testament God,
where the sinners
were miserable and
the righteous,
intolerant and
intolerable. |
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Review
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Eye
in the Sky is one of the
first Philip K.
Dick's books you
should read if you
still don't know
this American writer. If I'm not
mistaken, it was
the first time
that Philip K.
Dick, in a novel,
was treating the
theme of virtual realities.
Eight persons,
while visiting the
Bevatron, the only
pure
science-fiction
element of the
novel, are trapped
in a time hole
after having
accidentally been
hit by the
Bevatron ray. They
wake up in a world
that at first is
pretty much the
same than the one
they have just
left but they soon
realize that they
are caught in a
world entirely
created by the
phantasms of one
of them.
One can like Eye
in the Sky for numerous good
reasons such, for
instance, as the
slight favour of
Agatha Christie's
"and then
they were none" in it, the
reader waiting
anxiously for the
next imaginary
world to appear
and the clues that
will lead him to
the identity of
the new dreamer's
name. One can also
appreciate this
book for its
critique of the
late fifty's American
society :
The McCarthy
syndrome, the
anti-communism
paranoia or
the wave of the
evangelism don't
have the slightest
chance under
Philip K. Dick's
cruel pen.
With this book,
Philip K Dick revealed
himself as the
first class writer
he will be during
the sixties.
wdanthemanw |
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Credit:
NASA
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Jupiter
Gets A
Close-Up
NASA's
Cassini
spacecraft
took this
true color
mosaic of
Jupiter,
the most
detailed
global
color
portrait
of the
planet
ever
produced.
The
smallest
visible
features
are
approximately
60
kilometers
(37 miles)
across.
Although
Cassini's
camera can
see more
colors
than
humans
can,
Jupiter's
colors in
this new
view
appear
very close
to the way
the human
eye would
see them.
The mosaic
is made up
of 27
images
taken in
December
2000,
during the
spacecraft's
closest
approach
to the gas
giant. |
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NASA
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the day
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