Sublime

Human society, they claimed, was a sort of monster, its main by-products being corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain. It was like a giant slug eating its way relentlessly through all the other bioforms on the planet, grinding up life on earth and shitting

Captain Riggo possessed the virtue that Tevanne valued most of all: the ability to ignore what was right in front of his eyes for a huge sum of money.

May 1976 proved to be a life-changing month for PKD’s writing career, too. Bantam had acquired three of PKD’s novels, Palmer Eldritch, UBIK and A Maze of Death, all down to a keen young editor called Mark Hurst. PKD received $20,000 for these three books, plus an advance of $12,000 for his planned book Valisystem A.

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homely.

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