The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (22 page)

This ship rushed on, nearer and nearer Earth.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952 he began writing professionally and proceeded to write thirty-six novels and five short story collections. He won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1962 for
The Man in the High Castle
and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for
Flow My Tears the Policeman Said
. Philip K. Dick died of heart failure following a stroke on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California.

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First Vintage Books Edition, December 1991

Copyright © 1964 by Philip K. Dick

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright

Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a

division of Random House, Inc., New York, and distributed in

Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Originally published by Doubleday & Co., Inc.,

New York, in 1965.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dick, Philip K.

The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Philip K. Dick.—First

Vintage Books ed.

p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3554.I3T46 1991

813'.54—dc20   91-50091

CIP

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