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Author: Philip K. Dick

GALACTIC POT-HEALER

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Citizens of Plowman's Planet | Citizens of Earth/Terra
Character Group 1 | CG4 | CG5 | CG6 | CG7

All kinds of Stuff, some unique to PKD worlds
Clothing | Money | Technology | Organizations

Psionic Power and Talents  

Story Characters:

Citizens/Entities of Plowman's Planet

Citizens of Plowman's Planet

Group / City / 

Kalends  
Miss Hilda Reiss The Glimmung's personal secretary
Glimmung An entity... Each has its own doppelganger or counterpart (Black Glimmungs).

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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.

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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  

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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

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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

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Story Details/Stuff:

All kinds of Stuff, some unique to PKD worlds

Items

Description

Clothing/Food

Martian fatworm soup made of 

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

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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

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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

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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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Review:

Personal Review


Score: Hilarious

Enjoyable reading. Philp challenging characters and imagery is apparent. As long as you can suspend your disbelief, accepting what the characters perceive, you will see through PKDs eyes. The detail level of Earth and Plowmen's planet take you away from your dull life and then re-project it back on you in a new form. Dick paints a dark world through unique but familiar deities and a world run by collectivist gov't (a Cold War fear). A must read if for nothing else than the ludicrous characters. 

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