Author: Philip K. Dick

Entity/Deity

Capable of reflex relocation, based on autonomic pulsations within its neurological structure; allowing movement from one locus to another without time-lapse
Citizen Name	Job-Position
The Glimmung	...the all powerful. A shadowy and enormous entity not native to Plowmen's planet. It took over from the more feeble species.

Citizens of Earth/Terra - Story Site Three

Humans	Business / Etc.
Joe Fernwright	Pot-healer: repairs ceramics
Vice-commisioner Saxton Gordon
Gauk	Minor Soviet Official
Hirschmeyer
Smith
Kate	Katherine Hurley Blaine
Elmo Plaskett	Baseball player that came up from the minors
Cavorting Cary Karns
Harper Baldwin	A pychokineticist consultant for the gov't. Has gray hair.
Ralf
Mali Yojez
Edgar Mahan

Simulcra
Willis	A robot named Willis. A robot (robots are illegal on Earth). Often seen in herds. Provide personal services on Plowmen's Planet. Responds to commands beginning with its name. Somewhat independent and eccentric when not under commands: example being talking with an accent.

Non-Ts present (non-Terrans/Alien-life forms)
Nurb K'ohl Daq	from Sirius III, a bivalve organism
A univalvular cephalopod
A quasiarachnid	black in color, chitinuous multilegged
A large bivalve with pseudopodia
A reddish Jelly
A spiny apparition
Mr. Lunc	? Hydraulic Engineer

Other life-forms
Spiddles
Wubs
Werjes	Portly organism with a long ropey tail, fuzzy paws, acute reflexes
Klakes
Trobes
Printers
Fog-Things of Antiquity
Amalita	defeated by Borel, to be called upon by the Glimmung
Glank	A pet, avalueless slower lifeform
Questobar	A fog-thing
A multi-legged gastropod	From Betelgeuse II

Money
Gov't Money	A daily dole sent in a dingy gray packet. Odd and ornate and nearly worthless inflationary trading stamps. Value drops 80% in two days
Crumble	a monetary unit in the Plabkian tongue of Sirius V
Burfle	a monetary unit, presumably from Deneb IV

Technology & other things
Walters & Jones laser pistol	Carried by uniformed officer
Rapid transit hover blimp	transportation on Earth
Tokyo translating computer	One of many robot servo-mechanisms
GX9 Computer	One of many robot servo-mechanisms
Namangan translator	One of many robot servo-mechanisms
Cleveland Historical Artifacts Museum	A museum
Pornographic Pots	of Chinese origin
Dictionary robot	One of many robot servo-mechanisms: an electronic dictionary
Mr. Attorney	One of many robot servo-mechanisms: provides legal advice/representation
Mr. Encyclopedia	One of many robot servo-mechanisms: an electronic encyclopedia
Mr. Job	One of many robot servo-mechanisms: helps find you a job
Semi-invisible runic writing	Written in milk, when heated the message appears black
The Padre booth	One of many robot servo-mechanisms: provide spiritual advice
LB-4	Rocket transport
SSA machine	sub specie aeternitatis - something seen outside of time: predicts a probabilistic outcome of two people associating w/ each other
The Book of the Kalends	The only book on Plowmen's planet sold by spiddles, written by the Kalends. It is a prewritten history of what will happen on Plowmen's Planet.
Hovercraft	Transportation
Bone beds	Bed for sleeping
A caprix scoop	Ionian caprix, the element wit the greatest atomic weight. Replaced older rexeriod scoops
Volute Krater	A stoneware pot: superb quality (pg 120)
HB cartridge	A type of warhead

Organizations/Places
Peaceful Intenational World Senate	Description
Communal North American Citizens' Republic	Description
GUB	All purpose supershopping redemption center
The Game	Description
Ceramics Monthly	Magazine
Supreme Fiduciary Council	Description
Interplan Corn and Wheat People's Collective Bank	Description
Quietude Civil Authority policemen also; QCA Hymes and Perkins	Description
Heldscalla	Ancient catheral of the fog-things
Political Control Bureau
People's Sears
Cleveland Spaceport
The Olympia Hotel	In Diamond Head, largest city on Plowmen's Planet
Mare Nostrum	Aquatic sub-world
The Cathedral	Also a black Cathedral

Psionic Power and Talents: only added to or changed if significantly different from "Clans of the Alphane Moon" data
Psi-men, Inc of America	Association of people with Psi-talents
"Psi"	A person with Psionic power
"Precog"	A person with Precognitive power; the ability to predict future events
Telepath	A person with Telepathic power; the ability to read minds. Book discusses that some kind of shield can be worn to reduce ability to read minds. Also simulcra intentions cannot be read, but their presence can be detected remotely
Teleportation	A person with Psionic power that enables them to transport themselves or others physically
Psychokineticist	One who can move objects with their mind

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