A review by godofwar
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

3.0

I was hesitant to believe the hype around PKD, but I've only read one book of his and I'm ready to believe the hype. for his era, he was definitely a visionary, with intriguing mythology and effortless worldbuilding - I hardly struggled to understand the history and terminology, which is typically where hard scifi tends to suffer. there's definitely some problematic elements re: racism and misogyny that's hard to overlook, which is why I'd given it a 3 instead of 4, but it wasn't unexpected (it's just sad that so many decades later scifi still embodies the same problematic elements of a book written in the 60s). beyond that, there's little I have to complain about. and finally knowing the source to which del Toro paid homage in The Strain really makes me appreciate The Strain even more