Eye in the Sky

Name: Eye in the Sky
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9798894863863

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/27/2025

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

“I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning.”—Fantasy and Science Fiction When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy. Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and hilarious take downs. Eye in the Sky blends the thrills and the jokes to craft a startling morality lesson hidden inside a comedy.

About Philip K. Dick

Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928–1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, as well as television's The Man in the High Castle. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, including the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and between 2007 and 2009, the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on November 07, 2021

I’ve only read five PKD novels so far, but that’s enough for me to notice some recurring themes. Like The Cosmic Puppets, Time Out of Joint, and Ubik, the world in Eye in the Sky is not what it appears to be. In all four of these books, what the characters take to be reality isn’t reality at all. In......more

Goodreads review by Manny on February 12, 2009

Whenever I meet someone whose world-view is really different from mine, I tend to think of this book. You know, they still believe that Saddam was behind 9/11 and hid his nukes in Syria, or Al Gore made up global warming for political reasons, or the Grand Canyon was formed a few thousand years ago......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on July 09, 2022

"I like to call it awakening conscience.... I've seen a lot of aspects of reality I didn't realize existed. I've come out of this with an altered perspective. Maybe it takes a thing like this to break down the walls of the groove. If so, it makes the whole experience worth it." It continually amazes......more

Goodreads review by Baba on October 21, 2020

An accident at a tech plant. leads to the merging of the consciousnesses of Jack Hamilton and 7 others and appears to have propelled them into fantastical fantasy worlds! Hamilton seeks to lead the group through a number of these cray cray fantasy worlds, each more nuts than the previous! Is there a......more

Goodreads review by P.E. on March 08, 2020

A masterful demonstration on how every point of view is eventually flawed (even a big bloated eye hanging up in the sky's :D). Musical sibling : Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky -------------------- Une illustration magistrale de l'imperfection de tout point de vue (même de celui d'un œil dans le c......more