Eye in the Sky
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Average rating3.9
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Ratings9
Average rating3.9
“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.
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Not quite on a par with Dick's masterpieces, this is still a fascinating study in psychological horror, the flimsy premise of which involves tourists falling into the proton beam of a “bevatron”. As usual, the “science” is not the point. I would recommend people start with Man in the High Castle, Ubik and Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, but this, along with Penultimate Truth and Now Wait For Last Year and A Scanner Darkly, constitute core work.
