@Anna T: a pot-healer heals pots. As we all know, fractal geometry means that a ceramic that’s cracked in pieces can never exactly fit back together using known technology- but this is The Future. So Joe Chip, despite not really making much money on Earth, is the one person who can fuse shattered things seamlessly, which is handy as there’s a cathedral needs fixing on another planet. It’s also connected with Gnosticism, the Book of Isiah, Debussy and sarcastic robots, plus PKD accidentally invents the Babel Fish English-to-English Translator game in 1969.
September 6th, 2016 at 12:00 pm
“Flow My Tears, the Author Said” when Phil Dick witnessed his publisher’s latest atrocious cover art.
September 6th, 2016 at 12:43 pm
Rejected concept art for the Stallone Judge Dredd?
September 6th, 2016 at 1:34 pm
Looks like they slapped the funny hat and the oversized aviator sunglasses on Michelangelo’s
David.
September 6th, 2016 at 1:41 pm
An orrery hat?
The Pan Science Fiction Cover. No hats, possibly helmets, but no hats.
http://stuffpoint.com/philip-k-dick/image/419249-philip-k-dick-galactic-pot-healer-cover.jpg
September 6th, 2016 at 2:43 pm
I bet the artist dropped a pretty big f-bomb when he stepped back and realized he painted asymmetric sunglasses.
September 6th, 2016 at 2:53 pm
Aren’t the policemen looking younger these days? No, not younger… weirder.
September 6th, 2016 at 3:22 pm
Wot no Purple Helmet tag ?
September 6th, 2016 at 4:04 pm
Concept art for the Stallone remake of Truffaut’s version of Fahrenheit 451. Or the portrait of author Harlan Ellison as a young man.
September 6th, 2016 at 4:49 pm
As ways to tell Pugh and Pugh apart go this was one of the less daft ones.
September 6th, 2016 at 5:01 pm
We can’t stop here, this is dick cuntry!
September 6th, 2016 at 5:35 pm
Stallone f451 – like Trumpton but with a higher body-count. Edgar Wright directs.
September 6th, 2016 at 6:18 pm
I had no idea that in the 23rd century conquistador helmets and tinted lab goggles would become the height of fashion.
Also: What’s a “Pot-Healer”?
September 6th, 2016 at 7:32 pm
I will assume he has a cone-shaped head that fits snugly inside that helmet.
September 6th, 2016 at 9:12 pm
@Anna T: a pot-healer heals pots. As we all know, fractal geometry means that a ceramic that’s cracked in pieces can never exactly fit back together using known technology- but this is The Future. So Joe Chip, despite not really making much money on Earth, is the one person who can fuse shattered things seamlessly, which is handy as there’s a cathedral needs fixing on another planet. It’s also connected with Gnosticism, the Book of Isiah, Debussy and sarcastic robots, plus PKD accidentally invents the Babel Fish English-to-English Translator game in 1969.
Standard Phil Dick stuff, really.
September 7th, 2016 at 7:49 pm
So the *pot* healer aka a doctor who will give scrip for joints is by the same author as the man in the *high* castle ….
Wonder why the castle is high? Well, wonder no longer!
September 7th, 2016 at 9:38 pm
So…what colour is the galactic kettle-healer?
November 12th, 2016 at 1:02 pm
Misread the title as ‘Garlic Pot-Healer’. Something in the vein of ‘Horse-whisperer’, but for plants?